Fortissima Quotes & Sayings

To the timid soul, nothing is possible. — John Bach

When you start writing a picture book, you have to write a manuscript that has enough language to prompt the illustrator to get his or her gears running, but then you end up having to cut it out because you don't want any of the language to be redundant to the pictures that are being drawn. — Daniel Handler

I spent a long time working in the movies to figure out that kind of acting and also how to write and produce for the screen. — Denis Leary

I thought I wanted the truth, but I don't. The past is the past and it can't be changed. It's the future I'm interested in. -Gabriel McGregor — Tilly Bagshawe

By trying to control everything we become very neurotic, more and more desperate. It's a huge tragic thing. — Charlotte Rampling

If I do an interview with [Holocaust survivor] Elie Wiesel, am I required as a journalist to find a Holocaust denier? — Scott Pelley

At a period when Literature was wont to attribute the grief of living exclusively to the mischances of disappointed love or the jealousy of adulterous deceptions, he had said not a word of these childish maladies, but had sounded those more incurable, more poignant and more profound: wounds that are inflicted by satiety, disillusion and contempt in ruined souls tortured by the present, disgusted with the past, terrified and desperate of the future. — Joris-Karl Huysmans

I'm a woman with a mission. I've learned to believe in myself, my vision and to do things the way I want them done. — Irene Cara