Debattista Quotes & Sayings

I held onto her and the world slipped away. She calmed my mind and my soul lifted when close to her. Mina Harris was the better part of me, and I would keep her happy for the rest of my life. — Belle Aurora

Fiction connects: past and present; the great and the small; the surface with the depths. Fiction brings out the innermost, invisible springs of life that cannot be revealed in factual narratives. — Varley O'Connor

We are beginning to understand that this instinct of sex which has been so great a cause of suffering and shame and has been treated as a subject fit only for furtive whispers or silly jokes, is in fact one of the greatest powers in human nature, and that its misuse is indeed 'the expense of spirit in a waste of shame. — Maude Royden

I tended to place my wife under a pedestal. — Woody Allen

With every action theres an equal opposite reaction,with every problem theres a solution just a matter of taking action — Albert Einstein

Sex: the match that sets off human firework. — Steve Toltz

If you don't design your own life plan, chances are you'll fall into someone else's plan. And guess what they have planed for you? Not much. — Jim Rohn

Incredible things can be done simply because we are committed that we want it to happen, that's all. — Jaggi Vasudev

There's not a whole lot to do in Athens. When I was 13, I just started entertaining myself by writing songs. I'd sit in my room for 10 hours playing the same song, stacking vocals, trying out different drum beats, realizing no one would ever hear this but having so much fun. I guess I got my voice from just doing that so often. — Brittany Howard

I wasn't intentionally trying to create my own path or be original, it was just I needed to say certain things and I needed to express myself, and that's how it came out. — Emeli Sande

Children have the resilience to outlive their sufferings, if given a chance. — Ishmael Beah

And so, under a short grove of feebler and feebler over-swinging lamps, out under the great grove of stars. — Anonymous

You don't cast the animal, per se. You have an animal trainer who looks for several of them. That is a different experience than dealing with actors. That is just difficult. It is what you expect from an animal on the set. You just run a lot of film and prompt it to do the right thing, but sit through it doing all the wrong things first. It's just unbelievably boring, frustrating and painstaking to shoot. — Ethan Coen

A profound theme is of trifling importance if the characters knocked around by it are uninteresting, and brilliant technique is a nuisance if it pointlessly prevents us from seeing the characters and what they do. — John Gardner