Hostrups Quotes & Sayings

Anybody who prefers working to being pretty and fucking a lot probably hasn't done enough of either. — Sienna McQuillen

Sometimes a story just needs an ending, and I used to not be a creative enough person to think of an ending to a romantic story that isn't a wedding or a death. This story didn't end in fireworks, because the truth is, fireworks are something from my twenties. I could have made fireworks, but I chose to make a nuanced memory of a person who is neither a hero nor a villain in my life. All I had to do now was move on. — Mindy Kaling

Plans if you were going to go with this woman? come here. — Dolen Perkins-Valdez

And sometimes the clergy are blindsided by that. Other times they realize that ahead of time and say they're not going to use those terms. So it gets complicated for sure. — Michael Emerson

His mind was freshly inclined toward sorrow; toward the fact that the world was full of sorrow; that everyone labored under some burden of sorrow; that all were suffering; that whatever way one took in this world, one must try to remember that all were suffering (none content; all wronged, neglected, overlooked, misunderstood), and therefore one must do what one could to lighten the load of those with whom one came into contact; that his current state of sorrow was not uniquely his, not at all, but, rather, its like had been felt, would be felt, by scores of others, in all times, in every time, and must not be prolonged or exaggerated, because, in this state, he could be of no help to anyone and, given that his position in the world situated him to be either of great help, or great harm, it would not do to stay low, if he could help it. — George Saunders

The songs of Japan take the human heart as their seed and flourish as myriad leaves of words. As long as they are alive to this world, the cares and deeds of men and women are endless, so they speak of things they hear and see, giving words to the feelings in their hearts. Hearing the cries of the warbler among the blossoms or the calls of the frog that lives in the waters, how can we doubt that every living creature sing its song? Not using force, it moves heaven and earth, makes even the unseen spirits and gods feel pity, smoothes the bonds between man and woman, and consoles the hearts of fierce warriors-such a thing is poetry. — Ki No Tsurayuki

Building a business and becoming a billionaire is it's not championship. It's the competence; the competence in your sector with other companies not looking to have some kind of records in this issue. — Carlos Slim

If you can't sit in a cafe quietly and be ignored, how can you observe human nature and write a story? — Evangeline Lilly

I think if you're writing a play, it should be its own end game; you'll never get to do a good one unless you know it's not a blueprint for a film; you're not going to get the action right and the story right. — Martin McDonagh

Without madness what is man
But a wholesome beast,
Postponed corpse that begets? — Fernando Pessoa

Anger is one of the sinews of the soul. — Thomas Fuller

What woman has ever stopped by a want of information? She felt. And despised him for not acting in accordance with her feelings. — John Le Carre

Envy isn't always green; it's often black and white!" (On book reviews - from an article written in 2013) — Eric J. Gates

I believe that the very process of looking can make a thing beautiful. — David Hockney

For me, the path of failure exceeded by far the joys of success. My plight was hopeless. — Dominick Dunne