Manzetti Baldovinetti Quotes & Sayings

Readers tell me that my novels are filled with significant mothers. Do I realize this? Do I do it on purpose? The truth is, I don't. I think of myself as a writer of family stories. I write more often than not from a male point of view, and I usually begin by focusing on siblings, spouses, even fathers, before I think about the mothers. — Julia Glass

Stop running after the waves. Let the sea come to you. — Elif Shafak

I hate to recreate the whole world into my imagination. — Ludivine Sagnier

Art can contradict Science. — Austin Osman Spare

The horse, the horse! The symbol of surging potency and the power of movement, of action, in man. — D.H. Lawrence

Veni, vidi, flevi.

I came. I saw. I cried. — Dorian Cirrone

Don't wait a lifetime to satisfy your needs or you may live to regret it one day. — Frank Sonnenberg

General competence is on the fucking decline. — Bret Easton Ellis

You can't generalise, of course, but there is a school of American acting where there is a kind of pride in the number of takes you can do. — Antonia Bird

But as an amateur, the highest level you can box at is the Olympics. I did that at 18 and felt it was time to move on to other challenges as a professional. — Billy Joe Saunders