Massart Library Quotes & Sayings

It's beautiful. He's beautiful. And somehow, with the way he's looking down at me, I even believe I'm beautiful. — Colleen Hoover

I have to disregard everybody else, and then I can do my own work. — Richard P. Feynman

She thought about her cousins in Oklahoma, which was odd, since she'd never spent much time with them. She didn't even know them very well. Now she was sorry about that. — Rick Riordan

It is one great dream dreamed by a single Being, but in such a way that all the
dream characters dream too. — Arthur Schopenhauer

Do not craze yourself with thinking, but go about your business anywhere. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Van tortured himself with thoughts of insufficient filial affection - a long story of unconcern, amused scorn, physical repulsion, and habitual dismissal. He looked around, making wild amends, willing her spirit to give him an unequivocal, and indeed all-deciding sign, of continued being behind the veil of time, beyond the flesh of space. But no response came, not a petal fell on his bench, not a gnat touched his hand. — Vladimir Nabokov

As strange as it seemed, I knew in my heart that one day her death would affect me, and stranger still, that mine would affect her. — Jhumpa Lahiri

I'm always excited to carry more and more weight and responsibility within a story. — Kevin Durand

Having a character change during the course of the screenplay is not a requirement if it doesn't fit your character. But transformation, change, seems to be an essential aspect of our humanity, especially at this time in our culture. I think we're all a little like Melvin (Jack Nicholson) in As Good as it Gets. Melvin may be complex and fastidious as a person, but his dramatic need is expressed toward the end of the film when he says, 'When I'm with you I want to be a better person.' I think we all want that. Change, transformation, is a constant of life, and if you can impel some kind of emotional change within your character, it creates an arc of behavior and adds another dimension to who he/she is. — Syd Field