Boutaiba Quotes & Sayings

I think I write or publish as much as I do because I can bear being without a book to work on. — Philip Roth

If you only ever like people you don't know and who don't know you, the ball is perpetually in their court. Only they don't realize that you think they're playing basketball with you. They are not actually at the court. You think you're there. But really you're not there, either. — Katie Heaney

The Indian Summer of life should be a little sunny and a little sad, like the season, and infinite in wealth and depth of tone, but never hustled. — Henry Adams

A vision and strategy aren't enough. The long-term key to success is execution. Each day. Every day. — Richard M. Kovacevich

Sometimes the greatest deterrent to a great marriage is believing you have a perfect marriage. — Francis Schaeffer

I didn't want to get that ring around my lips from practicing the trumpet, because I thought the girls wouldn't like me. So I never practiced. — Wynton Marsalis

In revolutionary times, those who accord themselves, with an extraordinary arrogance, the facile credit for having inflamed anarchy in their contemporaries fail to recognize that what appears to be a sad triumph is in fact due to a spontaneous disposition, determined by the social situation as a whole. - AUGUSTE COMTE, — Michel Houellebecq

I mean, when I was young I could write all through the night and I loved to work late into the night. Now that I'm older I work really well in the early morning when your synapses are firing a little better. But I work at different times of the day. — Edward Hirsch

In Japan, violence isn't as controversial as it is in the West. Pornography is more restricted, but it's not hard to make a crazy, extremely violent film. — Takashi Miike

Taking awfully long to deliver a package!" Dad said.
"Because you make him nervous!" I motioned for him to go inside.
"That should make him faster," Dad pointed out. "What is it anyway?"
"Uh."
Rose whispered, "Tell him it's the Kama Sutra book you ordered."
I yelled over my shoulder, "It's the Kama Su - " I turned to Rose. "Wait. Isn't that the - "
"Ancient text of sexual pleasure?" he nodded. "Yes. Quite riveting. I'd be happy demonstrate. My skills are legendary."
"Oh, thanks very much."
"I'll take that as a yes."
"No! — A&E Kirk

If only this toothache would go away, I could write another chapter on the problem of pain. — C.S. Lewis

Recognition is a fire ; you can burn or find warmth and comfort by it. — Laure Lacornette

You can have a great script, or a great director and a bad script, and get a great movie. Nothing really guarantees anything. — Douglas Booth