Consequency Quotes & Sayings

You can be a smarty-pants director, but that won't matter if the movie doesn't work emotionally as well as intellectually. — Todd Haynes

I'm hugely fond of Scotland. My daughter, Jemma, was born in the Simpson Memorial Maternity Hospital in Edinburgh, and it always tickled me that she was so vexed she didn't have a Scottish accent even though she was brought up down south. — Rick Wakeman

Unless you have financial resources of your own, you can't be free. — Georgette Mosbacher

I will find you, Amy.
Lovesick words, hateful intentions. — Gillian Flynn

I don't practice anything. I spend time looking over ideas and then just get out and do it. — Robin Williams

See how the World its Veterans rewards!
A Youth of Frolics, an old Age of Cards;
Fair to no purpose, artful to no end,
Young without Lovers, old without a Friend;
A Fop their Passion, but their Prize a Sot;
Alive ridiculous, and dead forgot. — Alexander Pope

I was thinking: to write and being a writer are two kind of diferrences things.
To write is a please.
Being a writer is about taking it as a job, as a consequency, as a responsibility. And being a writer is about ENDLESSLY passion.
If you don't like it, just don't do it.
If you can't do it, just take it as a please. — Desi Puspitasari

I am an observant Jew! Now my secret is out. — Roseanne Barr

We can't play God.
We can't do this to kids.
You're evil, I'm evil.
Everyone will die.
No matter what.
Let nature win. — James Dashner

We may be only one of millions of advanced civilizations. Unfortunately, space being spacious, the average distance between any two of these civilizations is reckoned to be at least two hundred light-years, which is a great deal more than merely saying it makes it sound. It means for a start that even if these beings know we are here and are somehow able to see us in their telescopes, they're watching light that left Earth two hundred years ago. So, they're not seeing you and me. They're watching the French Revolution and Thomas Jefferson and people in silk stockings and powdered wigs
people who don't know what an atom is, or a gene, and who make their electricity by rubbing a rod of amber with a piece of fur and think that's quite a trick. Any message we receive from them is likely to begin "Dear Sire," and congratulate us on the handsomness of our horses and our mastery of whale oil. Two hundred light-years is a distance so far beyond us as to be, well, just beyond us. — Bill Bryson

There is nowhere pressing to get to because there is absolutely nothing wrong with where I am. — Bryan Kest

It is a strange enterprise to make respectable people laugh. — Moliere

Habit is the ballast that chains the dog to his vomit. — Samuel Beckett

The creature was weeping, and who could blame it, as hideous and abject and lonely as it was? But its tears, Hannah perceived suddenly, didn't just spring from wretchedness. They were also tears of relief, because it was alive, because it had survived another day. How could anything be grateful for such an existence? And yet, this creature was, and when it saw itself and knew that it wanted to live in spite of everything, it wept even harder, sobbing inconsolably until it was depleted. — Hillary Jordan