Christmas Reef Quotes & Sayings

Any man who undertakes to write a play is either a damned fool or a hero, I don't know which. When you write a book, you pull it out of the typewriter and that's that. When you write a play you've got to go on with the producer and the director and the actors and the rehearsals and the ... — Rex Stout

Ah, if only a few more massacres would suffice To sort it all out once and for all With so many uprisings and so many fallen heads In Paradise we should all be by now! But the wished-for Golden Age is endlessly postponed The gods remain so thirsty, they are insatiable Thus it is death, an endless cycle of death — Georges Brassens

An adaptation I was working on of Trollope's 'The Pallisers' has been axed by the BBC ... I was also going to do Dickens' 'Dombey and Son' but they've asked me to do 'David Copperfield' instead. — Andrew Davies

Actors sure have stories. We always have stories. At the end of our careers, all we have to take with us is our stories, and we have many of them. — Michael Eklund

We shall make progress towards Swaraj only if we do everything thoughtfully and with understanding. — Mahatma Gandhi

WhatsApp will bring Facebook another billion users. We will be a billion-user product. Whether there is a direct valuation or an indirect valuation, there is value, and Facebook understands that well. — Brian Acton

The Japanese tend to communicate via nuance and euphemism, often leaving important things unsaid; whereas Americans tend to think they're being subtle when they refrain from grabbing the listener by the shirt. — Dave Barry

Architects have created this fake separation between creation and execution. You can see it in architecture schools, where the students look down on going to contracts classes. — Joshua Prince-Ramus

She was never neutral, but she could be tolerant, although it was hard work - never a tolerance of indifference. — Mary Allsebrook

[Confederate flag] it's a symbol of racial hatred. — Rick Santorum

So, instead of spending my strength quarreling with the hand, I would strike for the heart of that great tyranny. — Jane Swisshelm

I had called Brooke 'it'. That was stupid. That was ... horrifying. I was better than that ...
... Calling human beings 'it' was a common trait of a serial killer - they didn't think of other people as human, only as objects, because that made them easier to torture and kill. It was hard to hurt 'him' or 'her', but easy to hurt 'it'. 'It' didn't have any feelings. 'It' didn't have any rights. 'It' was just a thing, and you could do whatever you wanted with it. — Dan Wells

On a film, you do your own work, you come together and meet on set, and then you shoot. It's great. — Bojana Novakovic