Bloomsday 2020 Quotes & Sayings

My parents are my backbone. Still are. They're the only group that will support you if you score zero or you score 40. — Kobe Bryant

... if you give it wings, it wants to fly away. — Billy Merrell

There was a time when actors went in at the back door. Most of them still should. — Raymond Chandler

Government isn't that good at rapid advancement of technology. It tends to be better at funding basic research. To have things take off, you've got to have commercial companies do it. — Elon Musk

It looks as though it hurt."
"It did."
"Did you cry?"
His fists clenched involuntarily at his sides. "Yes!"
Jenny walked back around to face him, pointed chin lifted and slanted eyes wide and bright. "So did I," she said softly. "Every day since they took ye away. — Diana Gabaldon

I enjoy racing so much. Ever since I was 8 or 9, I trained every stroke, because it was the only way I could race a lot. — Ryan Lochte

Our job is to make manifest the story, to be it. In a sense, the theatre is such a big star itself, bigger than any Shakespearean actor I could hire, that we should take the opportunity to fill it with voice and verse and movement, not interpretation. — Mark Rylance

When I was young, I would sit in the bath and ideas would come to me. But I'm not young any more, so now I just sit in the bath. — Aki Kaurismaki

A painting or sculpture not modelled on any real object is every bit as concrete and sensuous as a leaf or a stone ... but it is an incomplete art which privileges the intellect to the detriment of the senses. — Hans Arp

He would have enough money ... for a family that would fill his house with beautiful music and the silence of good books. — Ann-Marie MacDonald

The Internet is empowering everybody. It's empowering Democrats. It's empowering dictators. It's empowering criminals. It's empowering people who are doing really wonderful and creative things. — Rebecca MacKinnon

After publishing a book, start writing the next. And repeat. Don't get hung up on overmarketing the books, focus more on getting more books out there — Crissi Langwell

Worry is interest paid on trouble before it comes due. — William Ralph Inge

Now, unfortunately, some prissy card-carrying members of the U.S. Constitution have made us all look bad by pointing out that many of the Gitmo detainees weren't guilty of anything. Whoops! — Alex Gibney

If you are asking if the story of Jason and the Argonauts is fiction or nonfiction, I will answer that there is no difference between the two in the world I inhabit. — Vince Vawter