Filmiki Quotes & Sayings

So we must realize this: the suicidal framing story that dominates our world today has no power except the power we give it by believing it. Similarly, believing an alternative and transforming framing story may turn out to be the most radical thing any of us can ever do. — Brian D. McLaren

The real job of every moral teacher is to keep bringing us back, time after time, to the old simple principles which we are all so anxious not to see; like bringing a horse back and back to the fence it has refused to jump or bringing a child back to a lesson that it wants to shirk. — C.S. Lewis

God is not some omnipotent authority looking down from above, threatening to throw us into a pit of fire if we disobey. God is the energy that flows through the synapses of our nervous system and the chambers of our hearts! God is in all things! — Dan Brown

The thing I learned from playing tennis is that I know what competition is. I can handle rejection. — Aaron Zigman

Desiring the exhilarations of changes:
The motive for metaphor, shrinking from
The weight of primary noon ... — Wallace Stevens

You have to want to be in the company of those you're making films about. — Mira Nair

Best hope for what, Catman? Death? Bankruptcy? You know, my life was going along ... well, rather crappily, to be honest, but at least no one was trying to kill me and no one was dying around me. Since I met you, my life has taken the high road to Shitsville, with no off-ramp in sight. (Susan) — Sherrilyn Kenyon

We all get as miserable as Erika M. Andersen sometimes, but we rarely approach her musical-ideas-per-miserable-minute ratio. — Rob Sheffield

Play to win, but enjoy the fun. — David Ogilvy

I love form, but I'm not interested in forms. I've never written a sonnet or villanelle or sestina or any of that. For me, it's a kind of line. It's a rhythm. It's something musical. — Robert Pinsky

I am alone, and I am a Mask. — Sabaa Tahir

Emma, we don't have to kiss. She already knows I want to sleep with you."
He cringes as soon as he says it. He doesn't have to look up to know the sizzling sound in the kitchen is from Rachel spitting her pineapple juice into the hot skillet.
"What I mean is, I already told her I want to sleep with you. I mean, I told her i wanted to sleep with you because she already thinks I do. Want to, I mean-" If a Syrena could drown, this is what it would feel like. — Anna Banks

Some people are busy working on their pose instead of their purpose. — Saji Ijiyemi

I don't stay up and rent private jets and go on yachts and whoop it up in Miami. — Neil Patrick Harris

My world had become his, or his mine; it was hard to say — Jonathan Friesen