Filths Quotes & Sayings

When you deal with a man, deal with his most valuable possession, his life. There's play and there's the deep flow. I like to take things to the deep flow of play, because everything is a game, serious and nonserious at the same time. So play life like it's a game. — Huey Newton

Just because no human group has achieved some state in the past does not mean that none will achieve it in the future — James Peoples

seriousness, young man, is an accident of time — Hermann Hesse

The liftman in the tube is an eternal necessity ... — Virginia Woolf

Books should be like magical jewelled boxes. It's the writer's job to tell the story. My job [the artist] is to make you want to pick up the box, and to peer inside. — Thomas Canty

At any other time it's better. You can do the things you feel you should; you're an expert at going through the motions. Your handshakes with strangers are firm and your gaze never wavers; you think of steel and diamonds when you stare. In monotone you repeat the legendary words of long-dead lovers to those you claim to love; you take them into bed with you, and you mimic the rhythmic motions you've read of in manuals. When protocol demands it you dutifully drop to your knees and pray to a god who no longer exists. But in this hour you must admit to yourself that this is not enough, that you are not good enough. And when you knock your fist against your chest you hear a hollow ringing echo, and all your thoughts are accompanied by the ticks of clockwork spinning behind your eyes, and everything you eat and drink has the aftertaste of rust. — Dexter Palmer

Your point of view sets you up well in advance for how you view the events as they unfold. — Mary Anne Radmacher

Wisdom and goodness to the vile seem vile;
Filths savour but themselves ... — William Shakespeare

I can't tell you, as a parent, how it feels when the doctor tells you your child has diabetes. First off, you don't really know much about it. Then you discover there is no cure. — John Lasseter

John Maxwell...Izzy Lewis revised:
"The single GREATEST difference between GROWING PEOPLE and those that DON'T GROW is THE BELIEF that they CAN LEARN, GROW, AND CHANGE. — Izzy Lewis

I usually write in my kitchen, which is a large, octagonal room that looks into woods - three big windows look out into the trees. — Chuck Palahniuk

Somewhere in your mind there's a trace from everything you've ever seen. — Joshua Foer

In drama you can either pretend everything is OK, or you can show the world as it really is in the hope that it gets better. — Aidan Gillen

Shelving hard decisions is the least ethical course. — Adrian Cadbury