Ferreting Def Quotes & Sayings

The only way to understand a river is to jump into it. — Alice Hoffman

My biggest fantasy love affair was with Dustin Hoffman. It's so bizarre. Also Anthony Hopkins. — Debra Messing

The only real reason for self-referencing is the fun factor. It's fun for the writer, getting little peeks at what old characters might be up to. And it's fun for readers to spot a familiar face, or pick up on a made-up book title or something from an earlier story. I don't know that it does
or even should
contribute to the story in hand being any better than it would have been without it. — Charles De Lint

The feel of not to feel it, When there is none to heal it Nor numbed sense to steel it. — John Keats

I am the forever-seeking. — Patricia Highsmith

Am I corrupted if I believe that the people who think alike are more admirable and estimable than those who think for themselves? If no one thought differently, then where would our innovations come from? How would we ever advance beyond the status quo? Corruption isn't just moral or ethical in nature
rust is a form of corruption, one that eats away at its host like a parasite, constantly making it less than it was the day before. The belief that they should hold in greater esteem those who think alike is a form of rust, something that doesn't allow our young people to grow beyond the limitations already established by those who do think alike. — Tom Walsh

Nowadays, if a studio assumes that his film is bad, there is always an executive that gets more nervous than usual and thinks that if they change the music, the film will become a masterpiece. — Maurice Jarre

Leadership is defined as authentic transformative energy that adds value to others — Kevin Cashman

The consequences of things are not always proportionate to the apparent magnitude of those events that have produced them. Thus the American Revolution, from which little was expected, produced much; but the French Revolution, from which much was expected, produced little. — Charles Caleb Colton

I was really, really wild in my early twenties and a bit self-destructive. — Kirk Hammett

Political rivals attacked me. I was savagely beaten. I was kicked in the face and I lost my eye as a result. — Jean-Marie Le Pen