Famous Lawrence Durrell Quotes & Sayings

If you listen to The Browns, it's a very pretty sound. It was sibling harmony, a sound that was very pleasing. I've never heard anybody that could come close to that particular sound. It couldn't be imitated. — Jim Ed Brown

If you want to lead, learn how to follow. — George R R Martin

I like working with my hands. It feels good to build something yourself. — Scott Eastwood

Man is all symmetry, Full of proportions, one limb to another. — George Herbert

Wit isn't a useful instrument of defense; it may make a short-run appeal, but it creates a backlash- one saw this in the Hiss case and the Oppenheimer hearings; certainly one saw it in the trial of Oscar Wilde. — Diana Trilling

When you can use dirty words in every situation with everyone, that's a real big liberation. — Lina Wertmuller

The dead boy in his arms hung with his head back and those partly opened eyes beheld nothing at all out of that passing landscape of street or wall or paling sky or the figures of the children who stood blessing themselves in the gray light. This man and his burden passed on forever out of that nameless crossroads and the women stepped once more into the street and the children followed and all continued on to their appointed places which as some believe were chosen long ago even to the beginning of the world. — Cormac McCarthy

I'm a big fan of the movies of the '60s, more than a fan of the movies of the '70s. — Christopher McQuarrie

Spring was running in a thin green flame over the valley. — Ellen Glasgow

I think it's quite extraordinary that people cast me as if I'm Warren Beatty: until I met my present wife, at the age of 35, you could name two girlfriends. — Colin Firth