Ekranoplans Quotes & Sayings

But she saw that his eyes, which were sand-colored like his face, and sandy-lashed, had found another occupation. They were fixed on Conchita Closson, who sat opposite to him; they rested on her unblinkingly, immovably, as if she had been a natural object, a landscape or a cathedral, that one had traveled far to see, and had the right to look at as long as one chose. He's drinking her up like blotting paper. I thought they were better brought up over in England! — Edith Wharton

I've always fought for what I believe in. I used to get made fun of for dancing, and I would argue back, or fight the kids, or do whatever I had to do to shut them up. I have that in me. — Kenny Wormald

Things have to hit for the moment. That's one of the reasons I'm into video; the image has to hit immediately. I adore video and the whole cutting up of it. — David Bowie

It's terrifying. Women make their first film, their second film, and then it's like a nightmare, right, to make the third or fourth? I mean, it's almost like men can have three films in a row that don't do that well and keep on going. — Julie Delpy

Did Cap'n Vidious leave that? He is such a cuddlebunny."
"Yeah," I said, "that's exactly how I'd describe him. — Joel N. Ross

Black Velvet in that little boys smile, Black Velvet with that slow southern style. A new religion that'll bring you to your knees. — Alannah Myles

A piece of art, when completed, encapsulates its own reality. As its architect, the artist's task is to craft it well enough that the reader believes in its existence and is willing to enter, explore, and engage based on the artist's version of the truth, even if that truth is artifice. — Kate Kearns

Since that first showing of Foolish Wives I have seemed to walk through vast crowds of people, their white American faces turned towards me in stern reproof. — Erich Von Stroheim

I don't read books. I read 'On the Road' in high school, and that was awesome, so I guess that's my favorite book. 'To Kill a Mockingbird,' even though I didn't read it, that's the greatest story. SparkNotes came in when I was in high school, and that was the greatest invention. — Meghan Trainor

Our ability to choose is sacred. It's what makes humans special. — Mark Andrew Poe

What was the point of giving children freedom to experiment and fail, if one then turned it all into a tiresome object lesson? — Laura Lippman

I Cannot Remember You
... engulfed in liquid amnesia
I cannot fight the tide — Muse

If the WHY is BIG ENOUGH, the HOW usually not a problem — Merry Riana

In the end, the tragedy of Harold Wilson was that you couldn't believe a word he said — Tony Benn

Purify our minds that we may be "first pure, then peaceable," and fortify our souls, that our peaceableness may not lead us into cowardice and despair, when for Thy sake we are persecuted. — Charles Haddon Spurgeon