Dan Aykroyd Movie Quotes & Sayings

Liberation that raises a cry against others is no true liberation. Liberation that means revolutions of hate and violence and takes away lives of others or abases the dignity of others
cannot be true liberty. — Oscar Romero

I gamble with one foot pointed toward the door. — Frank Scoblete

Chess has this in common with making poetry; that the desire for it comes upon the amateur in gusts. — A.A. Milne

"better to have loved and lost" bullshit. Don't show me paradise and then burn it down. — Harlan Coben

She listened to the soft splashing sound when the water met the bank. It took just a few moments before she was able to completely fade out the smell of pollution and inhaled the salty air. The soft breeze mingled with the swooshing and splashing of the waves, with the rustling of grass, the tictac as long undressed twigs of the tree met each other, composing a gentle melody like wooden wind-chimes. The whole concert of nature calmed her down like nothing had ever been able to. — Jessica Werner

She settled her head back on her pillow, sighed deeply, and tried to relax, tried to let herself unwind and go back to sleep, but the harder she tried, the more sleep eluded her. Something was lurking there, hiding in a quiet corner of her mind, waiting to ambush her as soon as she started to drift off. — Casey Hill

No one runs your life unless you let them. And you have more power than you think. — Michael Hyatt

The photographer's vision convinces us to the degree that the photographer hides his hand. — John Szarkowski

The best approach to religious codes that have become rigid and absolute is to acknowledge their arbitrariness and use them, if we use them at all, as a private discipline for ordering our own chaos. When they are proclaimed as the bearer of absolute and unchanging truth, defended in the traditional way, they enslave the human spirit rather than protect it from its own excesses. Jesus' vision burned through the external systems to the anxious human heart that lay beneath them and called for its transformation into a perfection of love. — Richard Holloway

Bill Gates is said to be Aspergian. Musician Glenn Gould is said to have been Aspergian, along with scientist Albert Einstein, actor Dan Aykroyd, writer Isaac Asimov, and movie director Alfred Hitchcock. As adults, none of those people would be described as disabled, but they were certainly eccentric and different. — John Elder Robison

No human being should wear tight satin. — Michael Kors

I shall start at the beginning. Though of coarse, the beginning is never where you think it is. — Diane Setterfield

Welcome to the closet, I thought, is it dark in here or is just me — Josh Lanyon

The pretty lady come to play with knives, is it?" the man taunted. "Watch out you don't break a nail. I only date presentable girls." Shanti stepped forward and punched him in the sternum with her right hand. She elbowed him in the face with her left before ripping his knife from his hand. With economical movements, she knocked him in the head with the hilt, punched him in the gut, ripped his big body to the side, and stepped around him with a smooth movement. The knife made a loud thunk as it found the center of the target painted on the wooden post twenty paces away. — K.F. Breene

Effective learning means arriving at new power, and the consciousness of new power is one of the most stimulating things in life. — Janet Erskine Stuart

That's impossible,' said Fever, Engineerishly. — Philip Reeve