Durlston Country Quotes & Sayings

Large corporations have the ability to distract people with controversy that just distracts people from what's great about the movie or what works about the movie. — Peter Landesman

Politics is not really politics any more. It is run, for the most part, by Madison Avenue advertising firms, who sell politicians to the public the way they sell bars of soap or cans of beer. — Helen Caldicott

The global environment crisis is, as we say in Tennessee, real as rain, and I cannot stand the thought of leaving my children with a degraded earth and a diminished future. — Al Gore

They were just wading through the muck like everyone else. — Emma Straub

I made a point when I made the Ugly Casanova record to not write a song and then say, 'This is a Modest Mouse song' or 'This is an Ugly Casanova song.' The people who were open to it not being a Modest Mouse record liked it. — Isaac Brock

Mind is infinitely creative. And when it's not stuck, that's where the joy comes from. Something happens, and the way we think about it, understand it, see it, is actually hilarious, whereas before it used to depress us. — Byron Katie

Whatever you want, Sergei. Mike meant what he said beyond the immediate context, but found he was unable to put it into words. They wouldn't come. They had no form. Whatever it was didn't even have a tangible emotion to be labeled. — Aleksandr Voinov

At the beginning of a novel, a writer needs confidence, but after that what's required is persistence. These traits sound similar. They aren't. Confidence is what politicians, seducers and currency speculators have, but persistence is a quality found in termites. It's the blind drive to keep on working that persists after confidence breaks down. — Walter Kirn

Feet on ground,
Heart in hand,
Facing forward,
Be yourself. — Jann Arden

When my old man wanted sex, my mother would show him a picture of me. — Rodney Dangerfield

When you have a steady and lifelong group of girlfriends, chances are the person you're telling the story to is actually part of the story. — Sloane Crosley

-"He loved her ... It was noble of him. It was beautiful."
-"It was stupid. — Lloyd Alexander

on a task usually also want the authority — Darian Rodriguez Heyman