Lorenzo's Oil 1992 Quotes & Sayings

Hearken to my story. Listen but do not pity me. For pity is intended for the weak and I am still strong in my affliction. — Kahlil Gibran

How we choose to perceive affects how we partake of reality; narrowly or completely. — Bryant McGill

Well, you just have to make sure that you're his escape — Ellen Wittlinger

This has got to be the most expensive food ever laminated. — Marian Burros

My love for ice cream emerged at an early age - and has never left! — Ginger Rogers

Higgins: I'm an ordinary man, who desires nothing more than just an ordinary chance, to live exactly as he likes, and do precisely what he wants. An average man am I, of no eccentric whim, Who likes to live his life, free of strife Doing whatever he thinks is best for him, Well, just an ordinary man — Rex Harrison

When you don't take an aggressive role in shaping your thoughts, feelings, and perceptions, you become a helpless passenger floating through the universe like a ghost ship, merely reacting to wherever it takes you. — Chris Hardwick

Electric, wild, one foot in the swamp. Never going to crawl all the way out. And I wanted to have sex with whatever he was.
(Mac about Barrons) — Karen Marie Moning

Are there any books of that sort nowadays? The only ones I ever see mentioned in the papers are about married couples who find life grey, and can't stick each other at any price. — P.G. Wodehouse

Movies, particularly the big hit movies, are all just special effects. But on television, the writers are in control of the shows, and they control the scripts. — Larry Cohen

..If you work with a jackhammer during an earthquake, stop, otherwise you are working for nothing. — Jean-Claude Van Damme

Better broke than dead. — Rachel Caine

I don't have anything to say about the guy [Muddy Waters], you know. Treat me all right. But I can this: they are jealous hearted, you know. Are jealous hearted musicians, you know. See, if you can't do like your songs, get kinda jealous of you. Like you, like they think you better than them and all that, but I don't fool with those kind of peoples, you know. I ain't got the time. — Howlin' Wolf

All around, grown men were getting out of cars and shoving at each other like fifteen-year-olds, the bunch of juiced-up, armchair quarterbacks ready to peanut-gallery it up: The closest they were going to get to the octagon was standing on the outside of the chicken wire looking in. — J.R. Ward

The only victory love can enjoy is the day when its offer of love is answered by the return of love. The only possible final triumph is a universe loved by God and in love with God. — William Barclay