Juan Jose Saer Quotes & Sayings

To be honest, I didn't have any expectations. I really didn't know what to expect. What I was most nervous about was the repetition of doing it over and over and over again. Does that get stale? How do you keep it fresh? Then I realized it's always new because you get to keep playing the next moment. — Taissa Farmiga

Exploit a subject or a theme to its greatest potential by bringing all possible reference to bear - then put aside the reference and create again using the potential of your unfettered imagination. — Robert Genn

I have a naive trust in the universe - that at some level it all makes sense, and we can get glimpses of that sense if we try. — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

From success you get a lot of things, but not that great inside thing that love brings you. — Samuel Goldwyn

There survives somewhere or other an interesting controversy which took place between Wells and Churchill at the time of the Russian Revolution. Wells accuses Churchill of not really believing his own propaganda about the Bolsheviks being monsters dripping with blood, etc., but of merely fearing that they were going to introduce an era of common sense and scientific control, in which flag-wavers like Churchill himself would have no place. Churchill's estimate of the Bolsheviks, however, was nearer the mark than Wells's. — George Orwell

Your body is a temple. You don't shit on the temple. — Kim Holden

In reference to Persepolis and all palaces, cities and temples of the past: could these wonders have come into being without that suffering? without the overseer's whip, the slave's fear, the ruler's vanity? was not the monumentality of past epochs created by that which is negative and evil in man? — Ryszard Kapuscinski

The newest Ferrari of them all, the 458, the Italia. The GT3 was good, but nowhen near as good as this ... almost nothing on Earth is as good as this ... Set that something I've just told, involving Cameron Diaz ... and some honey ... then it comes that even that isn't as good as this. — Jeremy Clarkson

Sometimes hope can be poisonous. — Monica Hesse

It's real interesting to have a soul as a friend, and it makes me feel super special that I've managed it. — Stephenie Meyer

Thanks to being profoundly rooted in Christ, he was able to bear a burden which transcends merely human abilities. — Pope Benedict XVI

Writer's block results from too much head. Cut off your head. Pegasus, poetry, was born of Medusa when her head was cut off. You have to be reckless when writing. Be as crazy as your conscience allows. — Joseph Campbell

We need to start talking about inequality again; we need to start talking about the inequities and unfairnesses and the injustices of an excessively divided society, divided by wealth, by opportunity, by outcome, by assets and so forth. — Tony Judt

And I specialize in fixing things up and restoring them to their former glory.
She wondered if that talent extended to humans, maybe even humans who never really had a former glory. — Jill Shalvis