Hannibal Series Famous Quotes & Sayings

Nowhere in Chaucer do we find what can be called a radically allegorical poem. — C.S. Lewis

I write in order to understand the images. Being what my agent ... somewhat ruefully calls a language playwright, is problematic because in production, you have to make the language lift off the page. But a good actor can turn it into human speech. I err sometimes toward having such a compound of images that if an actor lands heavily on each one, you never pull through to a larger idea. That's a problem for the audience. But I come to playwriting from the visual world - I used to be a painter. I also really love novels and that use of language. But it's tricky to ask that of the theatre. — Ellen McLaughlin

The true business of the philosopher, though not flattering to his vanity, is merely to ascertain, arrange and condense the facts. — John Leslie

It's very hard to be an artist, on my first album, and I'm like asking for money for a music video for every song - it's so hard to do. You have to pick your battles for sure, but I definitely want - and I've always worked to make it all connect - for all of it to feel cohesive. — Melanie Martinez

Deal with my weird; I'm dealing with yours. — Temple West

Our checks are pale. Our wallets are invalids.
Past due, past due, is what our bills are saying
and yet we kiss in every corner, scuffing the dust
and the cat. Love rises like bread as we go bust. — Anne Sexton

Ridicule has followed the vestiges of truth, but never usurped her place. — Walter Savage Landor

The sense of mystery must always be, for mystery means being guided by obedience to Someone Who knows more than I do. — Oswald Chambers

At times I suffer from the strangest sense of detachment from myself and the world around me; I seem to watch it all from the outside, from somewhere inconceivably remote, out of time, out of space, out of the stress and tragedy of it all. — H.G.Wells