Fat Daddys Quotes & Sayings

I don't think of an actor. I think in the character, and then I search for the actor. Usually I'm thinking without names, because they will change my idea. No big egos. If I want egos - just mine. That is enough. — Alejandro Jodorowsky

A portrait isn't a fact but an opinion - an occasion rather than a truth. — Richard Avedon

Beauty in the European sense has always had a premeditated quality to it. We've always had an aesthetic intention and a long-range plan. That's what enabled western man to spend decades building a Gothic cathedral or a Renaissance piazza. The beauty of New York rests on a completely different base. It's unintentional. It arose independent of human designt, like a stalagmitic cavern. Forms which in themselves quite ugly turn up fortuitously, without design, in such incredible surroundings that they sparkle with with a sudden wondrous poetry ... Sabina was very much attracted by the alien quality of New York's beauty. Fran found it intriguing but frightening; it made him feel homesick for Europe. — Milan Kundera

At that time the only treatment of angelism, that is, excessive abstraction of the self from itself, was recovery of the self through ordeal. — Walker Percy

His frustration with some Americans was like that of a disappointed parent. He was so content in this country, so impressed with and loving of its opportunities, but then why, sometimes, did Americans fall short of their best selves? — Dave Eggers

Storytelling is fine as long as you can encourage people to act on the stories. — Karen Armstrong

I'm holding Eden in my hands, and it makes me glad there is no God to take this garden away from me. — Ellen Hopkins

The best cure for procrastination is to have so much on your plate that procrastination is no longer an option. — Tavi Gevinson

God doesn't look down and see good people and bad people; he sees bad people and the Lord Jesus. — Brett McCracken

If you're always sad when you think about me, then how can you remember me? — Sally Nicholls

It creates an effective contrast, like riding a bike down a long and peaceful country road and every other hundred yards the bike turns into a bear. — Yahtzee Croshaw

Make him be good to you. Make him love you if you can. It's the only way to get through this. — Cora Reilly

I have failed at many things, but I have never been afraid. — Nadine Gordimer

Don't let anybody tell you it's corporations and businesses create jobs. You know that old theory, 'trickle-down economics.' That has been tried, that has failed. It has failed rather spectacularly. — Hillary Clinton

something so single-minded. Never has he felt such a hunger to belong. In the rows of dormitories are cadets who talk of alpine skiing, of duels, of jazz clubs and governesses and boar hunting; boys who employ curse words with virtuosic skill and boys who talk about cigarettes named for cinema stars; boys who speak of "telephoning the colonel" and boys who have baronesses for mothers. — Anthony Doerr