Chimerica Quotes & Sayings

Child of a watcher, an angel who had been called to earth by my mother's beauty — Alice Hoffman

A long novitiate of acquaintance should precede the vows of friendship. — Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke

Writers are like eremites or anchorites - natural-born eremites or anchorites - who seem puzzled as to why they went up the pole or into the cave in the first place. — Joy Williams

The highest that a man can attain is to be able to do. — G.I. Gurdjieff

The way you teach a child to eat well is through example, enthusiasm, and patient exposure to good food. And when that fails, you lie. — Bee Wilson

I still want it to die. Like immediately. With fire. — Karin Slaughter

Let a fool be made serviceable according to his folly. — Joseph Conrad

The art of music, rather more daughter than imitator of nature, in her impressive and mysterious language minding and educating us, rouses directly our temper and rules us to the depths of our souls. — Carl Maria Von Weber

My mum taught me that bodies are bodies, and they come in all shapes and sizes - we should be free about that. My legs are a bit dangly, and my knees point inwards. Everyone has insecurities, but I try not to focus on them. It's important to be confident with what you've got. — Eliza Doolittle

When I make a film, I never stop uncovering mysteries, making discoveries. When I'm writing, filming, editing, even doing promotional work, I discover new things about the film, about myself, and about others. That is what I'm subconsciously looking for when shooting a film: to glimpse the enigmas of life, even if I don't resolve them, but at least to uncover them. Cinema is curiosity in the most intense meaning of the word. — Pedro Almodovar

There's one good kind of writer - a dead one. — James T. Farrell

Medicine had granted permission to a fantasy that men have never abandoned, a muddled version of what Pygmalion wanted - something between a real woman and a beautiful thing. — Siri Hustvedt

A big marker in my life was realizing you could record sound: I liked to make little recordings and then go back and listen to them. It becomes something outside of you then and you can listen to it objectively. — Josh Garrels

Don't you understand brother? I want to find a love ... that will free me from this love ... — Neil Jordan

Coraline tried drawing the mist. After ten minutes of drawing she still had a white sheet of paper with "MIST" written on it one corner in slightly wiggly letters. She grunted and passed it to her mother.
"Mm. Very modern, dear," said Coraline's mother. — Neil Gaiman