Janein Cantwell Quotes & Sayings

When told a script was full of old cliches: Let's have some new cliches. — Samuel Goldwyn

Philosophy is then nothing more than properly directed questions made in an attempt to better understand the world in which we live as a means of improving the quality of one's life. — Chris Matakas

Twas a clever quibble. Here, a garment for it. — William Shakespeare

The girl looked down at her plate. "Why didn't you tell me?"
"Would it have made it easier to kill a murderer?"
The girl paused. "Yes."
"Then what kind of test would it have been?" Quoneel asked. — Derek Landy

I was the type of guy that used to get up in the morning and go out and just out run everybody on the field without stretching or warming up or anything. — Bo Jackson

Because we are God's children ... we can bring our needs to him with certainty in prayer ... Prayer is not some kind of heavenly lottery. Nor does the Bible counsel us to pray with an "I hope this will work" ... attitude. Instead ... prayer brings us before the throne of grace as children seeking the help of their heavenly Father. That's the heart of breakthrough, successful prayer-the bold confidence that we are talking to the Father who delights to supply our needs. — Jim Cymbala

You contemplate and you wander without any worries, between heaven and earth, in your own private world, and in this way you acquire supreme freedom. — Gao Xingjian

Storytelling may be what most distinguishes social movements from interest groups. — Marshall Ganz

Lies were something you told other people to make things easier, somehow - hopefully, for them, but often more selfishly for yourself. — Michelle Sagara West

I don't agree with the Tories on most things. — Johann Lamont

To move any regime you need to have co-operation and co-ordination between Kurds, Shia Arabs, Sunni Arabs, the people and the army. Until we have this we cannot change the regime. — Jalal Talabani

To want nothing. Just to wait, until there is nothing left to wait for. Just to wander, and to sleep. To let yourself be carried along by the crowds, and the streets. To follow the gutters, the fences, the water's edge. To walk the length of the embankments, to hug the walls. To waste your time. To have no projects, to feel no impatience. To be without desire, or resentment, or revolt. — Georges Perec

It is inappropriate for the Bush administration to trump up a case in which we are ballyhooed into war. — Mike Farrell

Nothing is durable, I think anybody who thinks sex is durable is going to have a lot of grief. — Gore Vidal

You're mine," he said. "You can deny it, argue, throw fits, try to run away. But. You're. Still. Mine."

~Dragos — Thea Harrison