Earth Air Fire And Custard Quotes & Sayings

Writing is the equivalent to a striptease. — Kit Yan

Words are like untying a corset - you can move into this great space with them. — Ali Smith

He who seeks fame by the practice of virtue asks only for what he deserves. — Luc De Clapiers

It is sometimes desirable to distort or accentuate with lenses of various focal lengths ... Deliberate distortion may actually add to its reality. — Arthur Rothstein

He looked okay. No, to be honest. He looked a lot better than okay. He looked ... fine. Fine, as in get the Chiffons over here to sing a chorus. — Josh Lanyon

Joseph Stalin was said to have contemptuously asked, "How many divisions has the pope? — Francis Fukuyama

When you get to work with great people like on our movie, Blake and Ellen Burstyn and Harrison and Kathy Baker, Amanda Crew, the first minute or two it's like, 'Oh my God, I'm working with you,or Harrison,' people you've admired for so long, after like five minutes you realize we're all trying to do the same thing, we all have a passion for telling good stories and we're going to try to make the story the best possible. — Michiel Huisman

It had all dropped into place, like the last bit of the jigsaw, which you thought all along was a bit of left-hand sky, but when you turn it over you realise it's the last chunk of right-hand sea, or the sky tricksily reflected in the surface of the pond. — Tom Holt

The greatest book is not the one whose message engraves itself on the brain, as a telegraphic message engraves itself on the ticker-tape, but the one whose vital impact opens up other viewpoints, and from writer to reader spreads the fire that is fed by the various essences, until it becomes a vast conflagration leaping from forest to forest. — Romain Rolland

And to Shakespeare I owe my vision of the world as a theater, wherein all humans are acting out their parts. — James Broughton

The time was fast approaching when Earth, like all mothers, must say farewell to her children. — Arthur C. Clarke

The search for human freedom can never be complete without freedom for women. — Betty Ford

You're a bastard, you know that?"

"Being an orphan, I have no idea, but you might be right. Now, can we eat? — Michael J. Sullivan

Quitting law school was the most difficult decision of my life. But I felt this great relief that this is my life and I can do what I want with it. — Carly Fiorina