Formont Quotes & Sayings

Never walk over a writer, I said to myself, unless you're positive he can't rise up behind you. If you're going to burn him, make sure he's dead. Because if he's alive, he will talk: talk in written form, on the printed, permanent page. — Philip K. Dick

Do not despise your own place and hour. Every place is under the stars, every place is the center of the world. — John Burroughs

Some people have been in church for so long, been doing the "be a good Christian" thing for so long, that the very idea that they were chosen and determined for blamelessness before they'd started earning credit is very offensive. In our flesh, we tend to think that our holiness is the result of our spiritual elbow grease. We intellectually may agree to the doctrine of sola gratia, but we tend to live and act like we're saved by what Don Whitney calls "sola boot-strappa." That, however, is not the testimony of Scripture. — Matt Chandler

The Imagination that is raised in man (or any other creature imbued with the faculty of imagining) by words, or other voluntary signs, is that we generally call Understanding; and is common to Man and Beasts. — Thomas Hobbes

I don't believe in astrology. The only stars I can blame for my failures are those that walk about the stage. — Noel Coward

Is he all right?" Jade asked Sterns.
He Swooned"
I know he swooned," Jade replied. — Julie Garwood

They look at what's more important, like subjects to help with the SAT's, etc. They miss that music is vital. It offers a break from a stressful day of science and math and it's different. — Justin Guarini

When no one else is around, we open ourselves to the quieter astonishments that enormity can offer. — David Levithan

Never rush anyone who's personally witnessed continental drift. — Seanan McGuire

Most artists weren't famous until they died (mostly because once they'd died they couldn't create any more art, so it would make it more valuable). — Sariah Wilson

Your best protection is to have an established agent make the contact. — Penelope Spheeris

Just by being ourselves we are borne toward a destiny far beyond anything we could imagine. It is enough to know that the being I nourish inside me is the same as the Being that suffuses every atom of the cosmos. — Deepak Chopra

I don't think there is any one route to directing ... Other than that I think you just have to think 'By any means possible' and take any job you can that will get you experience. I also did a lot for free. I got paid virtually nothing for my first film, but it changed my life. — Mary Harron