From The Novel Luz Quotes & Sayings

Credit is the air that financial markets breathe, and when the air is poisoned, there's no place to hide. — Charles R. Morris

If there isn't a deep core reason for a film existing, what is the point? For me to be known as a filmmaker that makes films that have a point, I'm stoked. — Neill Blomkamp

humanity is a cancer on the body of the world — Scott Westerfeld

In a corner of the churchyard grew a plantation of white violets, enormously plump and prosperous-looking ... I saw the dead stretched out under me in the earth, feeding these flowers with a thin milk drawn from their bones. — Rosamond Lehmann

Night was swiftly approaching, but darkness would soon be a specter of the past — Luis Gonzalez

Life is so simple: We walk; we sit; we lie horizontal. That's about it. Everything else is a story about what's going on while we're doing it. — Byron Katie

At Thanksgiving, my mom always makes too much food, especially one item, like 700 or 800 pounds of sweet potatoes. She's got to push it during the meal. "Did you get some sweet potatoes? There's sweet potatoes. They're hot. There's more in the oven, some more in the garage. The rest are at the Johnson's." — Louie Anderson

I could have been a rich kid who stayed in college and got by on the path of least resistance, but I got much more out of being in the world and pulling my own weight. — Tim Daly

Radio for years and years looked at the same pool of talent. I always believed there were other people in the world that could do radio shows. — Scott Greenstein

Folly it may seem. Indeed in nothing is the power of the Dark Lord more clearly shown than in the estrangement that divides all those who still oppose him ... . We live now upon an island amid many perils, and our hands are more often upon the bowstring than upon the harp — J.R.R. Tolkien

Normally, I could hit hard enough, as anyone who studied my fights might have known. But the impression was that I was essentially defensive, the very reverse of a killer, the prize fighter who read books, even Shakespeare. — Gene Tunney

Let us stop saying 'white Americans' and 'colored Americans,' let us try once and for all saying ... Americans. Let human beings be equal on Earth as in Heaven. — Josephine Baker