Machinal Summary Quotes & Sayings

At the end of the day, if you don't have a record contract, a studio or a guitar, you can still write songs. You're still an artist. That's something no one can take away. — Janis Ian

I always felt that at the moment I was born, God must have blinked. He missed the occasion and never knew I had arrived. My parents had 11 children. While I love them and my five brothers and five sisters deeply, some days I felt lost in the litter. — Regina Brett

You keep thinking that with practice you will eventually get the knack of enjoying superficial encounters, that you will stop looking for the universal solvent, stop grieving. You will learn to compound happiness out of small increments of mindless pleasure. — Jay McInerney

For many years I had heard about an underworld consisting of people who act out a vampire fantasy while I was living in New York. Fortunately for me there are also several books on the phenomena. — James Patterson

I've always had a flare for the dramatic. I thought about being an actor and I thought about directing, but writing truly became something I needed to do, just to stay sane. It's my over-pressure valve. — Marti Noxon

A lifetime contract for a coach means if you're ahead in the third quarter and moving the ball, they can't fire you. — Lou Holtz

Stupidity is not a crime. — Alexei Navalny

I'm suspicious of epiphanies, because they so rarely last. — Tom Barbash

When I take on something , I take the whole thing on.It's not even a question of separating "Oh, am I going to be naked" I go with my whole person. — Charlotte Rampling

You cannot do wrong and feel right. It is impossible! — Ezra Taft Benson

The real test will be having a family; when I have a family you have to come home, you have to eat dinner with your kids. — Maggie Gyllenhaal

I was a mess as I alternated between anger and sorrow throughout the evening. There were no fae to take out my aggression on, which was a damn shame, so I wanted to punch random, innocent people on the streets. Like drive-by throat punches. The messy, violent swelling of emotion was almost too much. And then when I realized how terrible it would be to just run around punching people in the throats, I felt horrible, which was worse. — Jennifer L. Armentrout

A vacuum of ideas affects people differently than a vacuum of air, otherwise readers of books would be constantly collapsing. — Georg C. Lichtenberg

The self of which you speak, whether it is the great self or the small self, is only a concept that does not correspond to any reality. — Gautama Buddha

There would be very little to dislike in other people if we refused to bring to them all of our own judgements and petty grievances. — Gerald Jampolsky