Duffy Critical Quotes & Sayings

That fear, that terrible and petrifying fear, which he felt while he was rolling the dice, while he was worried about losing high stakes, that fear he loved and sought to always renew it, always increase it, always get it to a slightly higher level, for in this feeling alone he still felt something like happiness, something like an intoxication, something like an elevated form of life in the midst of his saturated, lukewarm, dull life. — Hermann Hesse

Sometimes I am kind of the opposite of my character. But that's the thing about acting, you get to play people who are not like you at all. — Dakota Fanning

Reputation should be neither sought nor avoided. — Laozi

Having ideas is not the same thing as being creative. Creation is execution, not inspiration. — Kevin Ashton

Oh...why has time changed us? — Naguib Mahfouz

High in the air rises the forest of oaks, high over the oaks soar the eagle, high over the eagle sweep the clouds, high over the clouds gleam the stars ... high over the stars sweep the angels ... — Heinrich Heine

I'm not comfortable with just me, me, me. That's boring. — Chita Rivera

The eyes are not here
There are no eyes here
In this valley of dying stars
In this hollow valley
This broken jaw of our lost kingdoms — T. S. Eliot

It's rather useless to write a gripping narrative with nothing in it but climate change because novels are always about people even if they purport to be about rabbits or robots. — Margaret Atwood

A few dud universes can really clutter up your basement. — Neal Stephenson

I had everything working my way, strong as a bull. And still I ignored the rules of the game of life. — Lawrence Taylor