De Rennes School Quotes & Sayings

You'd better discover a more important motive than publication for your work or else you'll go crazy. My sense is that you'll be writers only if you are convinced that to write is something for which there is no substitute in your life. You must therefore be ambitious for your work rather than for its promotion. The good news here is that if you assign secondary importance to publishing and primary to writing itself, you will write better, and will thus increase your odds of getting publishing. — Sydney Lea

Politics was good a hundred years ago. Today, politicians have no ability to solve any problems because they are not students of behavior. They are not students of agriculture, oceanography - they know nothing about the factors that operate the world. — Jacque Fresco

Nobody can write better jokes putting me down than me. — Garry Shandling

I'm very happy at home. I love to just hang out with my daughter, I love to work in my garden. I'm not a gaping hole of need. — Uma Thurman

I should hurt a lot more people than I do. I'd like to hurt someone on every play. — Brian Bosworth

In times of war, don't touch the guns; stay as a human! Always refuse to be a killer! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

Every role presents a new opportunity for me to do something different and to explore something different. — Paul Wesley

This world is filled with loud pretenses, sound republics, blind kingdoms, all bare and out of sorts. — Dew Platt

Moral codes were not designed to be selective, nor indeed were they designed to be questioned. You could not say that you would observe this prohibition but not that. I shall not commit theft
certainly not
but adultery is another matter: wrong for other people, but not for me. — Alexander McCall Smith

It's a simple exercise; a little logic, a little taste, and the will to cooperate. — Raymond Loewy

I've evolved in my writing to tell a more emotional story - my publisher, Random House, has urged that. — Alan Furst