Mikutap Quotes & Sayings

To make a photo from what we see is easy, but to create a realistic photo and show others what we have in our mind is a completely different story. — Jan Jansen

The theater itself is so archaic and old fashioned, that it doesn't really matter to me whether it's on Avenue D or at the Helen Hayes Theater. What's the difference? It's still a very nostalgic form. Also, it means you're knowingly walking into a room where there's actors. I feel it's very embarrassing. Because, you know, they're right there. You always think like, they can see you, and I think it's mortifying, frankly, and I hate to sit near the front, where you feel they actually might see you. It's too ... it's too live. — Fran Lebowitz

The Occupy Wall Street movement faltered when activists realized that traders were quite busy already. — The Covert Comic

With her first Oscar nomination for her portrayal of Lisbeth Salander in 'The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo,' Rooney Mara gave fashion fans a new Gothic-chic muse. — Derek Blasberg

Churches are like announcement factories that pump toxic levels of noise pollution into the atmosphere. — Scott McClellan

I suddenly felt like the Grinch feels when he discovers what Chrismas is all about. For the first time in a long time, I felt like I had a purpose being in the Navy. It wasn't about money and rank or prestige. It was about raising the flag. We do what we do because no one else can or will do it. We fight so others can sleep at night. And I had forgotten that. — Timothy Ciciora

I am from the age of magazines, so the Internet is terrifying to me. But I am learning. — Carine Roitfeld

Well, you finally got me, Helen had whispered to him, tearfully, but Garp had sprawled there, on his back on the wrestling mat, wondering who had gotten whom. — John Irving

Every writer has characters that they become attached to and that they feel very strongly about. — Greg Rucka

In fact, jazz has such a great feeling and great emotional content that it really doesn't require you to have technical understanding of it. I think you just have to allow your feelings to go with the music and you will find yourself carried along by it fairly quickly. — Dave Holland

Admire your offenders for they are never your offenders. They are only teachers in the class of forgiveness, tolerance and patience. How can you learn how to forgive when you have not been offended? How can you learn how to forgive seventy seven times seven when people have not offended you seventy seven times? Smile if you get offended, there is a lessons to learn! — Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

The fact of storytelling hints at a fundamental human unease, hints at human imperfection. Where there is perfection there is no story to tell. — Ben Okri

Hell is being alone. — Barry Lyga

I made a mental note to call. Later.
Tomorrow. Next month. Or January. — Dani Alexander