David Mamet True And False Quotes & Sayings

At my core, I know this: God is God. All that lives and breathes flows from him in both original and ongoing states. — Nicole Nordeman

Mrs Forrester ... sat in state, pretending not to know what cakes were sent up, though she knew, and we knew, and she knew that we knew, and we knew that she knew that we knew, she had been busy all the morning making tea-bread and sponge-cakes. — Elizabeth Gaskell

The green girl necessarily pines for the past, because the present is too uncomfortable to be present in and the future, unimaginable. The need to long, to desire that which she cannot have, that which has eluded her, because she deceives herself that it was this person, this chance, where she would have found happiness. — Kate Zambreno

The cafe windows wrapped all the way around the observation floor, which gave us a beautiful panoramic view of the skeleton army that had come to kill us. — Rick Riordan

Of course! the path to heaven
doesn't lie down in flat miles.
It's in the imagination
with which you perceive
this world,
and the gestures
with which you honor it.
-from The Swan — Mary Oliver

The music has always been my bread and butter, and I've focused more of my attention on that. — Al Yankovic

Religion is comparable to a childhood neurosis. — Sigmund Freud

To hunt words is to do no trespass. — Ivor Brown

The one thing that disturbs me about Alec is that people don't realize that he's really funny. — Daniel Baldwin

After a long run of almost thirty years, you get to the point where you say, 'These are my concerns.' It's not so much this is what I set out to claim - it is a kind of refrain. — Alice McDermott