Horatius Cocles Quotes & Sayings

I never really considered film as a career, but I knew I didn't want to be a builder. So I went to art college, and it just gradually happened. — Roger Deakins

As I've indicated, most books go out of print within one year. The same is true of music and film. Commercial culture is sharklike. It must keep moving. And when a creative work falls out of favor with the commercial distributors, the commercial life ends. — Lawrence Lessig

England is governed not by logic but by parliament. — Benjamin Disraeli

Oh, Daddy, I don't know what's wrong. I've tried to grow up - to be a good little girl, as you would say, but everywhere I turn I seem to walk deeper and deeper into some terrible despair. What's wrong, Daddy? What's wrong? Why is happiness such a precious thing? What have we done with our lives so that everywhere we turn - no matter how hard we try not to - we cause other people sorrow? — William Styron

The arrogance of poets is only a defense; doubt gnaws the greatest among them; they need our testimony to escape despair. — Francois Mauriac

Happiness is your own treasure because it lies within you. — Prem Rawat

If the mystical lovers of the arts, who consider all criticism dissection and all dissection destruction of enjoyment, thought logically, an exclamation like "Goodness alive!" would be the best criticism of the most deserving work of art. There are critiques which say nothing but that, only they do so more extensively. — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

The more we try to live in the world of words, the more we feel isolated and alone, the more all the joy and liveliness of things is exchanged for mere certainty and security. On the other hand, the more we are forced to admit that we actually live in the real world, the more we feel ignorant, uncertain, and insecure about everything. — Alan W. Watts

Faith is throwing yourself into the arms of the unknown and trusting that you will be safe in the hands of that monster — Bangambiki Habyarimana

The shadow banking sector has played an important role in cleaning up toxic assets. — Anshu Jain

The least likely person you'll see in church is a single twentysomething male. He is as rare at church as a vegan at a steak house. — Mark Driscoll

If you're good at it, you can win. — Dawn Fraser

'Y' is about the weakest letter of all. 'Y' can't make up its mind if it's a vowel or a consonant, can it? — David Mitchell

What, then, shall we say in response to this? If God is for us, who can be against us? (Romans 8:31 NIV) — Anonymous

We are no longer blessed with innocence, nor do we deserve to be. Paradise may have been lost, but paradise is a bad bargain. It costs too much. It conceals serpents, and is littered with graves. — Susan Rivers