Lands Of Glass Baricco Quotes & Sayings

I like to change liquor stores frequently because the clerks got to know your habits if you went in night and day and bought huge quantities. I could feel them wondering why I wasn't dead yet and it made me uncomfortable. They probably weren't thinking any such thing, but then a man gets paranoid when he has 300 hangovers a year. — Charles Bukowski

The presence of the other, which can be very threatening, becomes, in play, a delightful source of curiosity, and this curiosity contributes toward the development of healthy attitudes in friendship, love, and, later, political life. Winnicott — Martha C. Nussbaum

It's all about theme and development anyway. That's what music is about. — John Otto

Perhaps, all writers walk such a line. In general - as we all do in our dreams - I believe I put something of myself into all the characters in my novels, male as well as female. — Rose Tremain

The human mind is often, and I think it is for the most part, in a state neither of pain nor pleasure, which I call a state of indifference. — Edmund Burke

It is to be remembered that the origin of all the arts-music, painting and writing-is magical and evocative; and that magic is always used to obtain some definite result. — William S. Burroughs

Success is the only unforgivable sin against your neighbor. — Faina Ranevskaya

A person with the best strategy never gets angry. — Debasish Mridha

We say we want to create beauty, identity, quality, singularity. And yet, maybe in truth these cities that we have are desired. Maybe their very characterlessness provides the best context for living. — Rem Koolhaas

Two, I actually learned a lot of things that served me very well when it came to repeating performances on stage, because it is a craft and you do need a technique for it. — Ron Silver

I'm confident in my art. — Kid Cudi

It had always been a part of his job which he found difficult, the total lack of privacy for the victim. Murder stripped away more than life itself. The body was parceled, labelled, dissected; address books, diaries, confidential letters, every part of the victim's life was sought out and scrutinized. Alien hands moved among the clothes, picked up and examined the small possessions, recorded and labelled for public view the sad detritus of sometimes pathetic lives. — P.D. James

There is practically nothing in life you are set out to do that you cannot accomplish; it only takes you to make you". — Abdulazeez Henry Musa

Having been an actress before becoming a producer has helped, because I realize the needs. — Shelley Duvall