Gorski Vijenac Quotes & Sayings

Time passes, as the novelist says. The single most useful trick of fiction for our repair and refreshment: the defeat of time. A century of family saga and a ride up an escalator can take the same number of pages. Fiction sets any conversion rate, then changes it in a syllable. The narrator's mother carries her child up the stairs and the reader follows, for days. But World War I passes in a paragraph. I needed 125 pages to get from Labor Day to Christmas vacation. In six more words, here's spring. — Richard Powers

In Texas, we cook bacon a little differently than most folks ... MACHINE-GUN BACON. — Ted Cruz

In 900 years of time and space, I've never met anyone who wasn't important — Matt Smith

There was a period of cinema, in the mid-90's, that I was a huge fan of, with Heat and Seven, and the Tarantino era. If I've ever been fanatical, it was about those films. — Rockne S. O'Bannon

Working with a great actor is really educational. — Gia Coppola

Remember that with her clothes a woman puts off her modesty. — Herodotus