Mark Haughton Quotes & Sayings

... a woman's loyalty, or devotion, or intelligence isn't measure by the number of cocks that have fucked her, but rather who she is as a person — Al Daltrey

When you're directing, I feel like I'm playing all the parts, without the make-up. I really get into the heads of the characters. — Griffin Dunne

But it was Eve who was vilified, never the serpent. Just as it was the lady who was ruined, never the man. — Sarah MacLean

Age is a seasoned trickster. To our parents, we will always be children. Within ourselves, the same yearnings of youth; the same aspirations of adolescence, will last a lifetime. Only to the young - blinded by our grey hair and slowing gait - do we appear old and increasingly beyond the pale. — Alex Morritt

Though bonobos tend to be a lot hairier than us - and they don't build houses or churches or Pentagons like we do - these primates look and act remarkably human. They often even go beyond the merely "human," and enter the realm of the truly "humane. — Susan Block

If she had some level of theism, we might have a shared theological root from which I could shape holy words. — Thomm Quackenbush

You seem to have quite a taste for discussing these horrible subjects," she said, rather scornfully; "you ought to have been a detective police officer."
"I sometimes think I should have been a good one."
"Why?"
"Because I am patient. — Mary Elizabeth Braddon

Audacity, more audacity, always audacity. — Georges Jacques Danton

Yet in truth the big question Camus asked was never the Anglo-American liberal one: How can we make the world a little bit better tomorrow? It was the grander French one: Why not kill yourself tonight? That the answers come to much the same thing in the end-easy does it; tomorrow may be a bit better than today; and, after all, you have to have a little faith in people-doesn't diminish the glamour that clings to the man who turned the question over and look at it, elegantly, upside down. — Adam Gopnik

At twenty-nine, life no longer held any brightness for him, but Voltaire supplied him with man-made wings.
Spreading these man-made wings, he soared with ease into the sky. The higher he flew, the farther below him sank the joys and sorrows of a life bathed in the light of the intellect. Dropping ironies and smiles upon the shabby towns below, he climbed through the open sky, straight for the sun
as if he had forgotten about that ancient Greek who plunged to his death in the ocean when his man-made wings were singed by the sun."
-from "The Life of a Stupid Man — Ryunosuke Akutagawa

Lionel Messi is awesome. — Zlatan Ibrahimovic

I thank God for creating gay men. Because if it wasn't for them, us fat women would have no one to dance with. — Roseanne Barr

I'm the most sampled and stolen. What's mine is mine, and what's yours is mine, too ... I got a song about that ... But I'm never gonna release it. Don't want a war with the rappers. If it wasn't good, they wouldn't steal it. — James Brown