Elaboration Starters Quotes & Sayings

My own personal process with movies is to develop the characters with the actors and, when I've done that properly, you can't imagine anyone else, but that actor, playing that part. — Doug Liman

Literature is a splendid mistress, but a bad wife. — Rudyard Kipling

Yeah, and we could fly in on dragons and release a cloud of sugar plum fairies to tiptoe in an get the watch. — Mora Early

Please, your story, or I shall offend the dignitaries of my kingdom by yawning at holy things. — Diana Wynne Jones

I'm interested in taking a form, breaking it apart, and then rebuilding it. It is about transformation for me ... it is a very core notion that stabilizes my practice. — Shahzia Sikander

The way of the nomad is to accept everything as it comes: there is no anticipation of better days, no longing for the unrequited, no despair for loss. — D.J. Niko

He who wishes to exert a useful influence must be careful to insult nothing. Let him not be troubled by what seems absurd, but concentrate his energies to the creation of what is good. He must not demolish, but build. He must raise temples where mankind may come and partake of the purest pleasure. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

There are some movies I can watch over and over, never get sick of. I'll put one of those on and be puttering around the house. Then a certain scene will come on and I'll just have to go over and watch. — David Fincher

Maybe if we both wish hard enough, I will become invisible, with watery veins and glass bones. My translucent heart will beat on but my father will not notice me. He sees only my mother in the spaces around him. — Corrine Jackson

It is not easy in this world for one person to understand the next one. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

I should have known it. You still have those chocolate-kiss eyes. — Elizabeth Chandler

I would like my Dad to be alive so he could see what I am. — Ronaldinho

So different groups have different definitions, and then they clash on those. So it takes adept leadership to say we're going to work through these. — Michael Emerson