Boxtrolls Fish Quotes & Sayings

To read, write, and converse in due proportions, is, therefore, the business of a man of letters. — Samuel Johnson

I do not believe in any legacy. The past is dead and gone. — N. R. Narayana Murthy

There's this unspoken club where you say to each other: Oh God, if they only knew how ordinary I was, they wouldn't be interested. That includes movie stars and politicians. — Margot Kidder

dripped down her neck and stained the collar of her shirt. It was a mirror to the wash of blood pouring from her scalp, blinding her left eye and trailing down her cheek like macabre tears. — Kayti Nika Raet

I have felt for a long time that I want to return back to being a singer-songwriter for a period of time. I will go back to Broadway. But I want to make the right choices about why to go back and when I am ready to go back. — Tony Vincent

The Germans are prisoners of their past. — Daniel Barenboim

She gave me a hug and for a second I was embraced by a body that makes me want to go home and never eat again. — Daniel Handler

Malcolm Bradbury made the point, and I don't know whether it's a valid one or not, that the real English at the moment is not the English spoken in England or in America or even in Canada or Australia or New Zealand. The real English is the English which is a second language, so that it's rather like Latin in the days of the Roman Empire when people had their own languages, but had Latin in order to communicate. — William Golding

I was asked to model but I never took up the offer. — Mark Roberts

Most people like reading about what they already know - there is even a public for yesterday's weather. — Nancy Mitford

Hope is but the dream of those who wake. — Matthew Prior

My studio is not arty. It doesn't smell of turpentine, and I'm not knee-high in paper. — Robert Ingpen

Even if we are often led to desire through the sense of beauty can you say that the beautiful is what we desire? — James Joyce