Limural Quotes & Sayings

When you're talking about rock n' roll, myth-making is what it's all about. — Nick Cave

She doesn't really have a sense of humor. I think she'd like to have one - it's just that she doesn't quite understand what jokes are for. — Sophie Kinsella

Since the 1960s, exile for Haitians is a condition that ends only to begin again. — Madison Smartt Bell

I don't like the beach. I think we have no business at the beach at all, as a species. We don't belong in the sea. The sea is full of things that bite us, sting us, hurt the soles of our feet, and it's extremely cold. When are we gonna take the hint that the things that live in the sea don't like us? — Billy Connolly

Among today's directors I'm of course impressed by Steven Spielberg and Scorsese, and Coppola, even if he seems to have ceased making films, and Steven Soderbergh - they all have something to say, they're passionate, they have an idealistic attitude to the filmmaking process. Soderbergh's Traffic is amazing. Another great couple of examples of the strength of American cinema is American Beauty and Magnolia. — Ingmar Bergman

What did all the saints have in common? They feared sin more than even physical death. — Mark Hart

When we lose twenty pounds ... we may be losing the twenty best pounds we have! We may be losing the pounds that contain our genius, our humanity, our love and honesty. — Woody Allen

For it was authority that turned men suspicious and stern-faced. Authority and responsibility which made them not themselves, but a sort of corporate body that tried to think as a corporate body rather than a person. — Clifford D. Simak

The world to have a balance first it needs one liar and one guy who can discover who is lieing. That's called balance! — Deyth Banger

Trying to be a first-rate reporter on the average American newspaper is like trying to play Bach's St Matthew Passion on a ukulele: The instrument is too crude for the work, for the audience and for the performer. — Ben Bagdikian

Love is the linchpin that connects the material world with higher levels of existence. — Julianne Davidow

The Korean word for tree rose in his mind, surprising him, like a fish breaking the surface of a calm pond. — Sun Yung Shin

Early British pop was helped tremendously by the writing of Bob Dylan who had proved you could write about political and quite controversial subjects. Certainly what we did followed on from what was happening with the angry young men in the theatre. — Pete Townshend

[About Jews] Sheer egotism compels us to the purest love of mankind as a whole ... Our hearts are like a sponge, receptive to all the newest humanitarian ideas; and our sympathy goes out to all the unfortunate, all the oppressed. — I.L. Peretz

I think most of my tastes were British, as far as comedy went, when I was growing up. — Scott Adsit