Devroey Hats Quotes & Sayings

In the planning stage of a book, don't plan the ending. It has to be earned by all that will go before it. — Rose Tremain

The gods my protectors.
[Lat., Di me tuentur.] — Horace

When I played Imunique on 'Love That Girl,' that was on the other side of comedy - loud and out there. — Bresha Webb

Using the confirmation bias, these people will tell you that religion was horrible for mankind by counting deaths from the Inquisition and various religious wars. But they will not show you how many people were killed by nationalism, social science, and political theory under Stalinism or during the Vietnam War. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb

I had this revelation, you are a lot better at the between-song stuff than you are at the song stuff. That was devastating. And I usually find devastating things to be pretty valuable. — J. Tillman

Venice, as a city, was a foundling, floating upon the waters like Moses in his basket among the bulrushes. — Mary McCarthy

I auditioned for Robert Redford once and I was so starstruck I couldn't even speak. I had a mic wire at a screen test clipped to me and then I got kind of nervous and I paced in a circle and then took a step and tripped and fell on my face. You just have to forgive yourself and keep going on. — Ethan Hawke

Every TV timeout, I went up and said it right to Brady: 'Please keep trying me. I'm going to take it from you.' — Richard Sherman

The body can feed the body only. — Henry David Thoreau

All of which makes up a story I do not choose to tell. I choose not to tell it because to no one, not even to you, do I own proof that I am a substantial being with a substantial history in the world. — J.M. Coetzee

When you're in an extreme situation you tend to avoid facing it by getting caught up in little details. Like a guy who's decided to commit suicide and boards a train only to become obsessed with whether he remembered to lock the door when he left home. — Ryu Murakami

Believe me, I know what I'm talking about. I'm working class. Revolution or not, the working class will just keep on scraping a living in the same old shitholes. And what is a revolution? It sure as
hell isn't just changing the name on city hall. But those guys don't know that - those guys with their big words. Tell me, Watanabe, have you ever seen a taxman? — Haruki Murakami