Hariton Skinnytaste Quotes & Sayings

For sheer sexiness, a man must be beautiful. Funny. yes. Clever, no. — Jilly Cooper

I'm not religious in any formal sense, not in any God sense. — Al Purdy

The Truth must be told at all costs, no matter how unpopular it may be. The authentic spiritual leader, having freed himself of his own false need to be popular, tells the Truth whether it falls on fertile or stony ground. Such a teacher is the salt of the earth, though few know it. If you think the world is delirious as is, you would find it intolerable without his healing influence. — Vernon Howard

I am financing global pictures with global talents. Of course I will bring in the Chinese elements, yet you have to have global talents to create a global picture. — Bruno Zheng Wu

If we give purely, it opens up a doorway in our heart and it gives us the vision to see that those we give to are God. — Frederick Lenz

It's like a novelist writing far out things. If it makes a point and makes sense, then people like to read that. But if it's off in left field and goes over the edge, you lose it. The same with musical talent, I think. — Johnny Cash

When we react angrily or negatively about everything that happens to us, we're failing in patience. — Benet Tvedten

I mean, mentally you brace yourself for the ending of a novel. As you're reading, you're aware of the fact that there's only a page or two left in the book, and you get ready to close it. but with a film there's no way of telling, especially nowadays, when films are much more loosely structured, much more ambivalent, than they used to be. There's no way of telling which frame is going to be the last. The film is going along, just as life goes along, people are behaving, doing things, drinking, talking, and we're watching them, and at any point the director chooses, without warning, without anything being resolved, or explained, or wound up, it can just...end. — David Lodge

In any important relationship, we must always ask should we stay or leave. Perchance the correct answer exits in the reason for hanging on and the reason for finally moving on. Perchance self-sacrifice is required. Conversely, perhaps selfishness is called for as an act of self-preservation. — Kilroy J. Oldster

Weak, said some part of her, but it wasn't true. She was strong, and she always had been; she was the kind of strong that came with being gentle, being kind even when people didn't deserve it because if she wasn't kind to them then who would be? That was a much better kind of strong than brute strength. — Summer Wigmore

Is it possible that in all those years she left me nothing of herself, or, worse, that I didn't want to keep anything of her? It is. This — Elena Ferrante

As long as we are not ourselves, we will try to be what other people are. — Malidoma Patrice Some

Writers are magicians. They write down words, and, if they're good, you believe that what they write is real, just as you believe a good magician has pulled the coins out of your ear, or made his assistant disappear. But the words on the page have no connection to the person who wrote them. Writers live other peoples' lives for them. — W.P. Kinsella

is not cool, of course. It is brutal and inhuman and tragic on multiple levels. It's also sometimes necessary. — Salvatore A. Giunta