Brian Goorjian Quotes & Sayings

It is true that some of my fiction was based on actual events. But the events took place after the fiction was written. — Edward Abbey

Words, words, mere words, no matter from the heart. — William Shakespeare

You cannot fly into your own arms. — Elizabeth McCracken

Greece is the most magical place on Earth. — Kylie Bax

Ada:
"Dude, nothing matters. You're going to go to that Christmas party looking like a million bucks and you're going to show that stupid whore who's the boss — Karina Halle

Martyrdom, as a rule, establishes the sincerity of the martyr, never the correctness of his thought. Things are true or false in themselves. — Robert Green Ingersoll

One woman against two bloodsuckers. This I got to see. — Mary Abshire

When you want to make a film abroad, you need producers and people who support you. You need a team that speaks your language. — Bahman Ghobadi

The man who has learned to do something better than anyone else, has learned to do a common thing in an uncommon manner, is the man who has a power and influence that no adverse circumstances can take from him. — Booker T. Washington

We have no need of other worlds. We need mirrors. We don't know what to do with other worlds. A single world, our own, suffices us; but we can't accept it for what it is. — Stanislaw Lem

Why does the mind interfere at all? Because the mind is created by society. It is society's agent within you; it is not in your service, remember! It is your mind, but it is not in your service; it is in a conspiracy against you. It has been conditioned by society; society has implanted many things in it. It is your mind but it no longer functions as a servant to you, it functions as a servant to society. If you are a Christian then it functions as an agent of the Christian church, if you are a Hindu then your mind is Hindu, if you are a Buddhist your mind is Buddhist. And reality is neither Christian nor Hindu nor Buddhist; reality is simply as it is. — Osho

The Squire came to the side of the bed, and put his arms under Dickon, and lifted the boy - in a dead sleep all the time - and carried him out so, at the door. — J. Sheridan Le Fanu

There is a great deal of busywork to a writer's life, as to a professor's life, a great deal of work that matters only in that, if you don't do it, your desk becomes very full of papers. So, there is a lot of letter answering and a certain amount of speaking, though I try to keep that at a minimum. — John Updike