Fettes Residence Quotes & Sayings

Telling me I can do anything I want is like pulling the plug out of the bath and then telling the water it can go anywhere it wants. Try it, and see what happens. — Nick Hornby

At any rate, mutually assured destruction was never our policy. — Henry A. Kissinger

She sighed heavily before whispering, "I'm still a bit confused as to what we are waiting for." "We are waiting for one of the constants in our world, Miss Braun," Wellington assured her. "At the end of every opera, there is the grand finale, where the music continues its gradual crescendo, the tenor and tempo rising ever so gradually for that pinnacle of dramatic tension, that moment of anticipation - " "Welly, are you talking about opera or about sex?" His next words caught in his throat. For a woman of higher tastes and seeming refinement, this woman could be utterly crass. — Philippa Ballantine

A writer writes. Period. No matter if someone is buying your work or not. — Len Wein

Is there anyone among the great men who has not imitated? Nothing is made with nothing. — Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres

First stage is knowing the truth, second is not knowing the truth, third is realizing the paradox. — John K. Brown

The way I feel about music
any song, any style
is that there is no right and wrong, only true and false. If the music and lyrics are conceived out of honesty and if the production of the song goes along with its original message, then what has been expressed is art, regardless of what anyone's opinion is of it. So things are a lots impler if you just tell the truth. — Fiona Apple

This idea that a book can either be about character and feeling, or about politics and idea, is just a false binary. Ideas are an expression of the feelings and the intense emotions we hold about the world. — Richard Powers

Jake, who is both fitter and more hedonistic than me, once told me what they say about martinis: "One's perfect. Two's too many. And three's not enough. — Julian Barnes

You always overestimate what you can get done in a year and underestimate what you can get done in 10 years. — Bill Gates

And he saw the right evening star reflected in her eyes, and he saw the black cloud reflected in her eyes. — John Steinbeck

Nothing wrong with retouching - nothing new about retouching. — David Bailey