Lanther Quotes & Sayings

What is real and what is not? Can you tell me or I you? Perhaps we shall never know more than this - that to think a thing is to make it true. — P.L. Travers

Sometimes you'll have great actors who aren't comfortable with improvising. Which can get pretty frustrating. But every actor's coming from a different place and they have their own strengths and weaknesses and your job is to sell them as two people in the same world. Some of them have to have their hands held and some I just let loose entirely. — David Gordon Green

I was minding my own business when something says to me, "you ought to blow trumpet." I have just been trying ever since. — Miles Davis

Nothing more excellent or valuable than wine was every granted by the gods to man. — Plato

When I finally decide that I'm ready to get out of bed, it could be the sunlight, it could be the fact that I'm awake, and, OK, first of all, I wake up in the morning because I have to go to the bathroom. — Saul Williams

It is in the darkest night that the light we are shines brightest — Matthew Woodring Stover

It's funny. People often compare me to other humor essayists. They're usually quite nice comparisons; I will accept those gladly. But I am always sort of appalled at the idea of being lumped with other, more chick-y female writers. And the truth is probably that neither comparison is accurate. — Sloane Crosley

I became part of a little study group in community college and started caring about strangers. It gave me insight into what an asshole I was. I saw that I had only lived half of a life. — Dan Harmon

When all else fails, drink some tea. Really. You'll be amazed how many problems it can solve. We like to think of it as Buddha's whiskey. — Tara Cottrell

Well-developed characters will ruin your writing plans every time. You may think you know where you're going with a story, but they have other ideas. — Quinn Anderson

School bored me. Being educated and being intelligent are two different things. I thought I was smart enough. And I wanted to be an entertainer. I stopped going to school as a way of saying I was mature, a way of saying I was going to choose who I was going to become. — Djimon Hounsou

Problems are the cutting edge that distinguishes between success and failure. Problems ... create our courage and wisdom. — M. Scott Peck

He said something I remember very clearly. Self esteem is overrated. Anyone will think they color great if enough people tell them. Artificial praise. Down inside, compliments like that are hollow. — Albert Borris