Kirkish Quotes & Sayings

Fanatics do not have faith - they have belief. With faith you let go. You trust. Whereas with belief you cling. — Yann Martel

I think taking the biggest star in India and the biggest star in America, and putting them together in a movie that starts in America and ends up in India, or starts in India and goes to America. I think it would be a buddy cop formula. — Brett Ratner

There's a perilous word fiction writers need to watch out for. The word is 'had.' — James Scott Bell

I want to show the event at the very moment it takes place ... My body must be anchored to the ground and seek the best point of view, without any visual taboos. But then, at the heart of the event, my effort is to disappear, I introduce a distance that borders on indifference. — Luc Delahaye

The idea of being part of this tapestry of humanity is a far more enlightening idea for me than believing you are going to this different place when you die. The magic of reality is far more potent. — Matthew Healy

Whatever you fill your brain with and whoever you spend your time with ... will determine your life a decade from now. — John Spence

God has more for you in your future than you could ever dream of in your present and he's already seen you in it. — Rod Parsley

The child lives in the book; but just as much the book lives in the child. — Elizabeth Bowen

I've always wanted to do a boxing movie. — Walter Hill

I think that most of my books are part of some process of self-education, often about the places I go to. Most of all, they are about the peculiar tension between institutional loyalty and loyalty to oneself; the mystery of patriotism, for a Brit of my age and generation, where it runs, how it should be defined, what it's worth and what a corrupting force it can be when misapplied. All that stuff is just in me and it comes out in the characters. I don't mean to preach, but I know I do, and I'm a very flawed person. It's quite ridiculous. — John Le Carre

Nobody was all bad, I was learning. Even the worst person had someone who cared about them at some point" - Sydney Stanford — Sarah Dessen

When you're kind to people, and you pay attention, you make a field of comfort around them, and you get it back - the Golden Rule meets the Law of Karma meets Murphy's Law. — Anne Lamott

It made no sense, a lifespan of a few weeks did not add up to an annual migration of many thousand miles. How did they learn where to go? — Barbara Kingsolver