Dodatni Retrovizori Quotes & Sayings

Kids are not physical creatures, and they're not stupid. They know all about violence and power and raw emotions. What's really scary is when adults pretend that such things don't exist."

(Grossman's review of The Hunger Games in "Time" magazine, Sept. 7, 2009) — Lev Grossman

Imagine a being like nature, wasteful beyond measure, indifferent beyond measure, without mercy and justice, fertile and desolate and uncertain at the same time; imagine indifference itself as a power, how could you live according to this indifference? Living, is that not precisely wanting to be different? And supposing your imperative 'live according to nature' meant at bottom as much as 'live according to life', how could you not do that? Why make a principle of what you yourselves are and must be? — Friedrich Nietzsche

Everybody works but the vacant lot — Henry George

The simple act of writing down a goal and making a written plan for its accomplishment moves you to the top 3 percent. — Brian Tracy

And as we glided across the ice toward Fingerbone, we would become aware of the darkness, too close to us, like a presence in a dream. The comfortable yellow lights of the town were then the only comfort there was in the world, and there were not many of them. If every house in Fingerbone were to fall before our eyes, snuffing every light, the event would touch our senses as softly as a shifting among embers, and then the bitter darkness would step nearer. — Marilynne Robinson

Git an eyeful of cesspool alley the land of opportunity. — John Dos Passos

Discipline is important as long as you're having a good time. What I always did was I did what I enjoyed, and I think that's why I don't have any grey hairs. — John Zorn

I revise like crazy. I start revising before the pen hits the paper. — John Dufresne

There was one thing unforgivable, like things in the schoolroom so bad that only Mommy could deal with, to set up a rival good to God's. — Evelyn Waugh

They say that your eyes contain fire, that your face fills with light. — Kate Elliott

You can have peace. Or you can have freedom. Don't ever count on having both at once. — Robert A. Heinlein

Algebras are geometric facts which are proved. — Omar Khayyam

I choose films for their artistic value. I don't need a mansion or a Jaguar. When I leave this Earth, I won't take any money with me. All I will leave behind will be my art. — Brad Renfro