Gurmitkal Quotes & Sayings

Good novels are not written, they're rewritten! — Michael Crichton

It takes me a long time to lose my temper, but once lost I could not find it with a dog. — Mark Twain

Art is by nature aristocratic, and naturally selective in its effect on the audience. For even in its 'collective' manifestations, like theatre or cinema, its effect is bound up with the intimate emotions of each person who comes into contact with a work. The more the individual is traumatised and gripped by these emotions, the more significant a place will the work have in his experience.
The aristocratic nature of art, however does not in any way absolve the artist of his responsibility to his public and even, if you like, more broadly, to people in general. On the contrary, because of his special awareness of his time and of the world in which he lives, the artist becomes the voice of those who cannot formulate or express their view of reality. In that sense the artist is indeed vox populi. That is why he is called to serve his own talent, which means serving his people. — Andrei Tarkovsky

Apart from letters, it is the vulgar custom of the moment to deride the thinkers of the Victorian and Edwardian eras; yet there has not been, in all history, another agewhen so much sheer mental energy was directed toward creating a fairer social order. — Ellen Glasgow

I decide to make the most of the time we got left before she gets too big for this small town. — Steven Herrick

Losing a parent is something like driving through a plate-glass window. You didn't know it was there until it shattered, and then for years to come you're picking up the pieces
down to the last glassy splinter. — Saul Bellow

... Pfiffikus, whose vulgarity made Rosa Hubermann look like a wordsmith and a saint. — Markus Zusak

I hate being so nostalgic about the Sixties. — David Bailey