Keszthelyi Bal Zs Quotes & Sayings

If the ancients had been able to see it as I see it now, Mr. Palomar thinks, they would have thought they had projected their gaze into the heaven of Plato's ideas, or in the immaterial space of the postulates of Euclid; but instead, thanks to some misdirection or other, this sight has been granted to me, who fear it is too beautiful to be true, too gratifying to my imaginary universe to belong to the real world. But perhaps it is this same distrust of our senses that prevents us from feeling comfortable in the universe. Perhaps the first rule I must impose on myself is this: stick to what I see. — Italo Calvino

You are caught between all that was and all that must be. You feel lost. Mark my words: as soon as the bones mend, you will forget about the fracture. — Haruki Murakami

Nuclear weapons continue to occupy a unique place in global security affairs. No other weapons, in my opinion, anyway, match their potential for prompt and long-term damage and their strategic impact. — C. Robert Kehler

Love may precede respect but it cannot survive the loss of it. — Joe L. Wheeler

Tick's eyes twinkled, and he drew a long sip of coffee. Poor Kate ... wanting to run the world and yet no one will let her. — Elizabeth Camden

No man ruleth safely but he that is willingly ruled. — Thomas A Kempis

It is so fascinating that someone can commit their whole entire lifestyle to being such a fantastic woman when I'm such a bum about it. — Kesha

You cannot go beyond a certain limit in your expenditure if you want to bring back money from your local market, which is very small after Pakistan. — Satyajit Ray

In business, you learn from mistakes. In government, they never do. — Rick Scott

I have made believe so long that now I am quite sincere in my conviction that we can see pretty much whatever we look for; which should prove the desirability of searching for amusement and profit rather than for boredom and disillusion. — Gelett Burgess

In my perception, the world wasn't a graph or formula or an equation. It was a story. — Cheryl Strayed

Mick Jagger, his face was very new. It became a sex symbol. — Isaac Mizrahi

What I personally gravitate toward tends to be fantasy, medium dark - not too dark - fairy tales and sci fi. Stop-motion takes something on the page that's really dark and adds a little sweetness to it, a living toys realm. — Henry Selick

Life is bigger than our explanations of it. To be in touch with life, go beyond your explanations. — Julio Olalla

A plot, I used to remind my students, is not merely a sequence of events: "A" followed by "B" followed by "C" followed by "D." Rather, it's a series of events linked by cause and effect: "A" causes "B," which causes "C," and so on. True, a person's (or a fictional character's) destiny may be more than the sum of his choices
fate and luck play a role as well
but only scientists (and not all of them) believe that free will is a sham. People in life
and therefore in fiction
must choose, and their choices must have meaningful consequences. Otherwise, there's no story. — Richard Russo