Frank Johnston Quotes & Sayings

For me, places have a tremendous impact. I fall in love with places. All of life seems different in different places. — Anne Rice

The previous Friday, Andy had come over, and they'd told him, and Andy had stood and hugged them both very solemnly, as if he was Jude's father and they had told him that they had just gotten engaged. — Hanya Yanagihara

I sometimes forget that as bad as you think your family is, there's always someone who has it worse. — Rick Riordan

The future has become uninhabitable. Such hopelessness can arise, I think, only from an inability to face the present, to live in the present, to live as a responsible being among other beings in this sacred world here and now, which is all we have, and all we need, to found our hope upon. — Ursula K. Le Guin

As far as the stars are from the earth, and as different as fire is from water, so much do self-interest and integrity differ. — Lucan

To be a warrior is to learn to be genuine in every moment of your life. — Chogyam Trungpa

The people who've done well within the [Hollywood] system are the people whose instincts, whose desires [are in natural alignement with those of the producers] - who want to make the kind of movies that producers want to produce. People who don't succeed - people who've had long, bad times; like [Jean] Renoir, for example, who I think was the best director, ever - are the people who didn't want to make the kind of pictures that producers want to make. Producers didn't want to make a Renoir picture, even if it was a success. — Orson Welles