Highlifter Quotes & Sayings

For a few minutes I stood alone in her chambers, appreciating the light and silence and art. There was a van Gogh on one of the walls, worth more than most planets could pay. It was a painting of the artist's room at Arles. Madness is not a new invention. — Dan Simmons

Writing good dialogue is art as well as craft. — Stephen King

Times before you, when even the living men were Antiquities; when the living might exceed the dead, and to depart this world, could not be properly said, to go unto the greater number. — Thomas Browne

I'll be vilified if I shoot a film in Toronto for New York. And rightfully so! — Spike Lee

Because there's such a long tradition of the arts being very prominent and very varied in Cuban culture and society, people do use the art world as a space for critical reflection and people look to it for that. — Rachael Price

Egotism is the anesthetic that dulls the pain of stupidity — Booker T. Washington

Wise men have regarded the earth as a tragedy, a farce, even an illusionist's trick; but all, if they are truly wise, and not merely intellectual rapists, recognize that it is certainly some kind of stage in which we all play roles, most of us being very poorly coached and totally unrehearsed before the curtain rises. Is it too much if I ask, tentatively, that we agree to look upon it as a circus, a touring carnival wandering about the sun for a record season of four billion years and producing new monsters and miracles, hoaxes and bloody mishaps, wonders and blunders, but never quite entertaining the customers well enough to prevent them from leaving, one by one, and returning to their homes for a long and bored winter's sleep under the dust? — Robert Anton Wilson

There have been innumerable films about film-making, but Otto e Mezzo was a film about the processes of thinking about making a film
certainly the most enjoyable part of any cinema creation. — Peter Greenaway

When we let go of our battles and open our heart to things as they are, then we come to rest in the present moment. This is the beginning and the end of spiritual practice. Only in this moment can we discover that which is timeless. Only here can we find the love that we seek. Love in the past is simply memory, and love in the future is fantasy. Only in the reality of the present can we love, can we awaken, can we find peace and understanding and connection with ourselves and the world. — Jack Kornfield

Any planning that I have in my career is totally accidental really. — Christian Bale

Trashy Women should probably exclusively date Garbage Men — Josh Stern

You won't age? I promise you this - your hands will go shiny and transparent and at the slightest bruise they'll bleed ... — John Geddes

The whole idea of interviews is in itself absurd - one cannot answer deep questions about what one's life was like - one writes novels about it. — Anthony Powell

O fateful flower beside the rill- The Daffodil, the daffodil! — Jean Ingelow