Essopi Quotes & Sayings

Once I start shooting I forget the scriptwriter in me. I like things flowing. If you have talented actors who bring their own ideas, it can be much better than what you have worked out. — Fatih Akin

Few words in any language carry such a load of meaning as 'honor.' It is an old word, unchanged even in its spelling from classical Latin to modern English. Spoken or written, it does not seem to require much explanation; most people think they know what it means. — Edmund Morgan

A princess," (Queen Sophia) would proclaim, "requires a graceful and willowy carriage, not the appetite of a swineherd. — Catherine Gilbert Murdock

I have pulled threads from magic tapestries already woven and used them to weave my own cloth. — Jane Yolen

Wendy? Darling? Light, of my life. I'm not gonna hurt ya. I'm just going to bash your brains in. — Stephen King

Shall I tell you what I think are the two qualities of a work of art? First, it must be indescribable, and second, it must be inimitable. — Pierre-Auguste Renoir

The word-coining genius, as if thought plunged into a sea of words and came up dripping. — Virginia Woolf

We have to grasp, as Marx and Adam Smith did, that corporations are not concerned with the common good. They exploit, pollute, impoverish, repress, kill, and lie to make money. They throw poor people out of homes, let the uninsured die, wage useless wars for profit, poison and pollute the ecosystem, slash social assistance programs, gut public education, trash the global economy, plunder the U.S. Treasury and crush all popular movements that seek justice for working men and women. They worship money and power. — Chris Hedges

Perhaps it was as well that she had been unconscious for four weeks. She had missed the aftermath, the SO-1 reports, the recriminations, Snood and Tamworth's funerals. She missed everything ... except the blame. It was waiting for her when she awoke ... — Jasper Fforde

Sports, politics, and religion are the three passions of the badly educated. — William H Gass