Dir Diagonal Quotes & Sayings

When you meet people that you know from other films - as often happens to me, and as tends to happens to you when you're an actor, you constantly meet people that you've seen in other films. But when it's people who've kind of had a seismic effect on your life, it's quite extraordinary. — Simon Pegg

All knowledge is of itself of some value. There is nothing so minute or inconsiderable that I would not rather know it than not. — Samuel Johnson

I believe I once considerably scandalized her by declaring that clear soup was a more important factor in life than a clear conscience. — Hector Hugh Munro

Novel is a particular form of narrative./ And narrative is a phenomenon which extends considerably beyond the scope of literature; it is one of the essential constituents of our understanding of reality. From the time we begin to understand language until our death, we are perpetually surrounded by narratives, first of all in our family, then at school, then through our encounters with people and reading.
- The Novel as Research. (1968) — Michel Butor

I was probably tall as a child, but I just stopped growing. — Kevin Hart

A camera winks at me from high in the bleachers like we're sharing a secret. Fans in the home section of the Fair Grove High gym smile in envy as I hurry toward the bench, wishing some winking camera had ever, in their entire lives, shared a secret with them. — Holly Schindler

Satisfy your demand for reason but always remember that charity is beyond reason, and God can be known through charity. — Flannery O'Connor

Studies show that women are more likely than men to die in natural disasters. Women's voices must be heard. — Frances Beinecke

If I'd waited to know who I was or what I was about before I started "being creative," well, I'd still be sitting around trying to figure myself out instead of making things. In my experience, it's in the act of making things and doing our work that we figure out who we are. — Austin Kleon

And sweet and far as from a star, replied a voice which shall not cease, till drowning all the noise of war, it sings the blessed song of peace — John Greenleaf Whittier

They obey older laws. — Alison Croggon