Dan Topolski Quotes & Sayings

You're on your own, like you've always been on your own. You have to keep going forward, until you can't go forward anymore. — Jeff VanderMeer

There's something exciting and incredibly liberating for an artist to finish something Friday night and the world hears it Friday night instead of eight months later after marketing people and all those assholes get involved. — Trent Reznor

We have a contract for the delivery of the S-300s. We have supplied some of the components, but the delivery hasn't been completed. We have suspended it for now. But if we see that steps are taken that violate the existing international norms, we shall think how we should act in the future, in particular regarding supplies of such sensitive weapons to certain regions of the world. — Vladimir Putin

The president has listened to some people, the so-called Vulcans in the White House, the ideologues. But you know, unlike the Vulcans of Star Trek who made the decisions based on logic and fact, these guys make it on ideology. These aren't Vulcans. There are Klingons in the White House. But unlike the real Klingons of Star Trek, these Klingons have never fought a battle of their own. Don't let faux Klingons send real Americans to war. — David Wu

I am the sum total of everything that went before me, of all I have been seen done, of everything done-to-me. I am everyone everything whose being-in-the-world affected was affected by mine. I am anything that happens after I'm gone which would not have happened if I had not come. — Salman Rushdie

Vronsky's life was particularly happy in that he had a code of principles, which defined with unfailing certitude what he ought and what he ought not to do. This code of principles covered only a very small circle of contingencies, but then the principles were never doubtful, and Vronsky, as he never went outside that circle, had never had a moment's hesitation about doing what he ought to do. — Leo Tolstoy

If there's anything I'm keen to get better at in my writing, then it's the writing of prose as opposed to the writing of dialogue. — David Nicholls

Writing pilots is such a specific thing. It's not even really writing TV shows. A pilot is its own beast. — June Diane Raphael

Die to the past every moment. You don't need it. Only refer to it when it is absolutely relevant to the present. Feel the power of this moment and the fullness of Being. Feel your presence. — Eckhart Tolle

We have to learn to listen to our hearts, as broken as they might be. Our hearts tell us everything we need to know, even if we don't want to hear it. — Sarah Michelle Lynch

You still don't get it, do you, Tate? I'm not looking anywhere but at you. — Ella Frank

When we mourn our parents, we mourn the parents we had as well as the ones we never had. With death, all bets are off: the last chance at reconciliation or change or hope is gone. Whatever relationship we had with our parents, that's it. No more chances for something else. — Joan M. Drury