Decouverte Amerique Quotes & Sayings

Every time I revise, life just gets a little worse for my protagonist. — B.K. Raine

If we do not meet with agreeable things, we shall at least meet with something new. — Voltaire

House was the first film where I had no influence on the script. I had to buy the script with the game rights. — Uwe Boll

When his apprenticeship was finished (the candidate for Knighthood) was received into the Knightly Order by a ritual of sacramental awe ... — Ariel Durant

A lot of people are crazy, cruel and negative. They got a little too much time on their hands to discuss everybody else. I have a limited amount of energy to blow in a day. I'd rather read something that I like or watch a program I enjoy or ride my damn motorcycle or throw back a couple of shots of tequila with my friends. — Queen Latifah

I do not need drugs to be a genius, do not take a genius to be human, but I need your smile to be happy. — Charlie Chaplin

Inside us there is something that has no name, that something is what we are. — Jose Saramago

There are some who complain most energetically and inconsolably of any, because they are, as they say, doing their duty. I also have in my mind that seemingly wealthy, but most terribly impoverished class of all, who have accumulated dross, but know not how to use it, or get rid of it, and thus have forged their own golden or silver fetters. — Henry David Thoreau

By itself, just to draw crazy creatures has limited appeal - if I had to give up one thing, it would be the wild imagination. When the work becomes too detached from ordinary life, it starts to fall apart. Fantasy needs to have some connection with reality, or it becomes of its own interest only, insular. — Shaun Tan

Missionary work isn't the only thing we need to do in this big, wide, wonderful Church. But almost everything else we need to do depends on people first hearing the gospel of Jesus Christ and coming into the faith ... With all that there is to do along the path to eternal life, we need a lot more missionaries opening that gate and helping people through it. — Jeffrey R. Holland

I never felt I knew it all. I always felt there's something new to learn, something new to do. — Don Shula

I have to believe that most people know that 'Can't Take My Eyes Off Of You' is my song. But the reaction we get from the audience at 'Jersey Boys' is that they didn't remember how many hits we had. A lot of 'Oh yeah, I forgot they did that song.' We had 20 Top 10 hits in the U.S ... people forget. — Frankie Valli

My parents have basically just taught me the rules of the stage and everything since I was eight. — Haley Reinhart

He remained, weeks after awakening, in that period of early-morning consciousness that allows easy re-entry to dreaming. His limbs still tingled with the residue of sleep, and most days he wanted badly to allow it to overtake him again. — Dave Eggers