Desdichado Quotes & Sayings

I have friends who have a CD mastering plant in Hollywood and they are very sceptical about European record labels' understanding of digital technology. — Gavin Bryars

If, while observing the boundless universe, the writer is able to scrutinise his own self as well as others, the resulting incisiveness of his observations will far surpass objective descriptions of reality. — Gao Xingjian

The grasses toss and shimmy. The horses nicker. Madame Manec says, almost whispering, "Now that I think about it, child, I expect heaven is a lot like this. — Anonymous

Now I don't know why he's denying them habeas corpus. I can only assume the guys they got detained over there did something really unforgivable. Like remind Obama he was once a professor of Constitutional Law. — Stephen Colbert

In the face of an overpowering mystery, you don't dare disobey. — Antoine De Saint-Exupery

She was one of those Southerners who knew from an early age that the South could never be more for them than a fragrant prison, administered by a collective of loving but treacherous relatives. — Pat Conroy

It's being here now that's important. There's no past and there's no future. Time is a very misleading thing. All there is ever, is the now. We can gain experience from the past, but we can't relive it; and we can hope for the future, but we don't know if there is one. — George Harrison

His mother had hated him for looking after her, then hated him for leaving. Five years living with an alcoholic woman and no one had thanked him. If there was such a thing as the moral high ground it was surely he who occupied it. — Mark Haddon

After meeting the family, they really felt like a sitcom family, ... I thought it would be cool if we did a reality show, but told it with the visual language of a sitcom format. — Tony DiSanto

Anything you like; anything I like ... No past to make us sentimental, no future to embarrass us — Jean Rhys

I suppose I should get a VCR, but the only thing I like about television is its ephemerality. — P. J. O'Rourke

Because I'd wanted to touch him more than I'd wanted my next breath. — Sarina Bowen

Always leave a way out, unless you really want to find out how hard a man can fight when he's nothing to lose. — Robert Jordan