Lantinga Slager Quotes & Sayings

For some reason, it is always thrilling to spot your home town in the news. — Craig Brown

Actors are not always the best judges. We have a peculiar idea of what we think we are, and sometimes it's best left to others to decide what we play. — John Hurt

He told me all the things he liked to THINK he thought in the misty past. — F Scott Fitzgerald

Develop your characters well enough that they do stupid things on their own. — Rebecca McKinsey

Sometimes it is our mistakes that make us the best among men in the world. if we listen to the voices of the world, they speak not to degrade us but to encourage us to overcome that which we have been ultimately blessed with ... for what more could we lose if we never choose to overcome anything? I tell you that you are dead if you are foolish enough to not try. — Danish Sayanee

Have you ever had a cookie? Then you won't get any here either. — Bill Cosby

Spare time is like spare change. It's hard to quantify, the definition of that phrase. What do I do when I'm not onstage singing, or sleeping, with or without someone else? I watch movies. — Marilyn Manson

All men are, at times, influenced by inexplicable sentiments. Ideas haunt them in spite of all their efforts to discard them. Prepossessions are entertained, for which their reason is unable to discover any adequate cause. The strength of a belief, when it is destitute of any rational foundation, seems, of itself, to furnish a new ground for credulity. We first admit a powerful persuasion, and then, from reflecting on the insufficiency of the ground on which it is built, instead of being prompted to dismiss it, we become more forcibly attached to it. — Charles Brockden Brown

The individual human life span is brief and, in the long view, inconsequential,' he said. 'We are children one day and signing out the next. Therefore, in the brief moment we are allotted, live reasonably, be compassionate, and when your hour comes, accept it without histrionics. Never forget that your handful of hours is a supreme gift. Use them wisely, do not fritter them away, and remember that your life is not an entitlement. — Jack McDevitt

Happiness is not everything and men have their duties. Mine is to find my mother, a homeland — Albert Camus

My dad gave me threepence to pay the fine but I spent it on a Wagon Wheel — Brenda Blethyn

Trenchmouth, really great band.Here's a photo of them in 1979 playing the Valley Green projects. It was an incredible, unusual experience. We ran a cord through the window and plugged the PA and amps into that and played right in the courtyard. It was an incredible experience. It was just local kids. — Ian MacKaye

Recipe for a Worry

Take one pound morbid preoccupation and mix vigorously with one cup overactive imagination. In a separate bowl, add one part hypersensitivity to three parts increased hormone activity. Fold together and let stew for hours on end. — Emily Colas

I like complicated characters. — Greg Kinnear

There are lots of things that happen to me that I don't write about. — David Sedaris