Clerestory Quotes & Sayings

Remember what Anatole France said about the dog masturbating on your leg
'Sure, it's honest, but who needs it? — Richard Yates

The exhibition of real strength is never grotesque. Distortion is the agony of weakness. It is the dislocated mind whose movements are spasmodic. — Robert Aris Willmott

Being an electronic genius was a reputation I had, maybe being even into math and science almost exclusively and not wanting to be in the other normal parts of the world. — Steve Wozniak

Lake breathed out a happy sigh as she approached the row filled with guns. Matilda was my first, but ladies, you know how to make a girl want to stray. — Jennifer Lynn Barnes

The clerestory is so high that clouds form there. Angels have been seen up in the vaults. — John Evan Garvey

You're 18 points down [in the polls] ... You might as well do what's right. — Henry A. Kissinger

I came to terms with living mostly in a world of horror pictures or genre pictures. I have had a few chances to get outside and do something different, like Paris, Je T'Aime or Music Of The Heart, but mostly it's been my lot. And to have created, with a few shocking films, an awareness or a perception of me as somebody dangerous and scary - that can be sold, but trying to sell me for some other kind of picture, like Music Of The Heart, was very difficult. — Wes Craven

You're not limited to your body as you've known your body. In the deepest levels of you being in your deepest body, there is nowhere that your body is not, and with that body you're able to think. — John De Ruiter

It's idiotic, it's crazy. If you die and then you're just nothing, there isn't any point to anything. Why do we live at all if we die and stop being? Father wasn't ready to be stopped. No one's ready to be stopped. We don't have *time* to be ready to be stopped. It's all crazy.
... Look at my glasses. I can't even see that there are any stars in the sky without them, but it's not the glasses that are doing the seeing, it's me, Madeleine. I don't think Father's eyes are seeing now, but *he* is. And maybe his brain isn't thinking, but a brain's just something to think through, the way my glasses are something to see through. — Madeleine L'Engle

For nine more nights they trained, after an arduous day's march, Vaelin would try to turn a poet into a swordsman. — Anthony Ryan

I have courted prepossession and ignorance, and driven reason away, where either were concerned. — Jane Austen

Absence blots people out. We really have no absent friends. — Ambrose Bierce

Does it not seem as if Mozart's works become fresher and fresher the oftener we hear them? — Robert Schumann

I started as a musician. I play the saxophone, but from the age of 17, I realised that it's very hard to make a living as a jazz musician in Australia. So I went for an audition and got an acting job and, fortunately, I completely fell in love with that. — John Polson

Actually, when I write, there is a feeling of necessity, of something that is stronger than myself that demands that I must write as I write. — Jacques Derrida