Divertissements Quotes & Sayings

After all a book can be represented as a conversation with one's demon. — Patrick O'Brian

Okay, okay, already," I said, holding up both hands in an I-surrender sort of gesture. "I'll try it your way from now on. I'll do the touchy-feely stuff. Jeez. You West Coasters. It's all backrubs and avocado sandwiches with you guys, isn't it? — Meg Cabot

With young people everything is much more on the surface - all the emotions; when you get older you know how to hide things. — Rineke Dijkstra

(Alfred's sister, Olive Deering, was famous in those years for her sentiments during her filming of the endless DeMille epic The Ten Commandments: "Who do I have to fuck to get off this picture?") — Lee Grant

I've had great success and I've had catastrophic failure. It's really how you handle the rough stuff that defines you, I think. — Peter Berg

Just the minute another person is drawn into some one's life, there begin to arise undreamed-of complexities, and from such a simple beginning as sexual desire we find built up such alarming yet familiar phenomena as fetes, divertissements, telephone conversations, arrangements, plans, sacrifices, train arrivals, meetings, appointments, tardiness, delays, marriages, dinners, small pets and animals, calumny, children, music lessons, yellow shades for the windows, evasions, lethargy, cigarettes, candies, repetition of stories and anecdotes, infidelity, ineptitude, incompatibility, bronchial trouble, and many others, all of which are entirely foreign to the original urge and way off the subject. — E.B. White

No," she said suddenly. "It's not a cage, Nox." She put her hand on his shoulder. "Love is an open door. — Kami Garcia

Names and individuals are unimportant when Germany's final fate is at stake. — Franz Von Papen

We used to have just one criterion and that was profit, and then another criterion was added - social welfare. Now we have to add the third important criterion, and that is nature and the environment. — Mikhail Gorbachev

I'm growing fatter," said Mary, — Frances Hodgson Burnett

Life is a zoo in a jungle — Peter De Vries

I usually write very few stage directions. I think a lot of that is a waste of time. The art of screenwriting is in its terseness, saying a lot with a little. I have no patience when I read a script where the writer describes this guy and what he's wearing and his glasses and his hair. — Scott Frank

We all know them - the unstructured person whose every action seems aimless and the totally organized person whose every action defeats some purpose. — Robert Breault