Flagellants Black Quotes & Sayings

Look at cookbooks with your kids and ask them what sounds good. — Mario Batali

What can be sustained and repeated without emptying out? — Jan Peacock

The fact is, you don't know what directing is until the sun is setting and you've got to get five shots and you're only going to get two. — David Fincher

Man is the poet who kills, Woman the angel who eats. — Greg Bear

A life-threatening illness or two certainly gives you an awareness of your own mortality. It heightens your sense of gratitude for things that previously, if you've not taken them for granted, you perhaps never appreciated how precious they were. That's almost a platitude, but one has to state the obvious. — Norman Foster

Sometimes the autobiographical link in each story is very literal, like I did work at The Texas School for the Blind, and I did once lose a mattress out of the back of a friend's truck. — Arthur Bradford

You don't ask a man, 'Do you want to be in control [of your job]?' You assume he wants control. Why would a woman be any different? — Barbra Streisand

That was the thing about pictures
they were worth a thousand words, but sometimes they weren't the right ones. — Melissa De La Cruz

I'm not sure that love is an excuse for everything — Siri Hustvedt

Human society is the embodiment of changeless laws which the whimsicalities and circumstances of men and women involve and overwrap. The realm of literature is the realm of these accidental manners and humours
a spacious realm; and the true literary artist concerns himself mainly with them. — James Joyce

Memory is each man's poet-in-residence. — Stanley Kunitz

My parents had an experience of life that is as opposite to mine as you can imagine. — Jane Pauley

History is not coherent; moreover, the politics of coherence tend to drive history in the least tolerable directions. — Joshua Clover

The death takes a moment and life lasts forever. Why spend eternity worried about a singularity? — Abram Gitspof