Moi Day Quotes & Sayings

The reason dying is so easy is because death has no meaning ... And the reason death has no meaning is because life has no meaning. All the same, have fun!
Pierre Anthon — Janne Teller

Maturity dare to be the first to shine as a light in the dark. — Kishore Bansal

Where wisdom is called for, force is of little use. — Herodotus

Nothing strong can be built on a foundation of lies and omissions. — Isabel Allende

A country that can put men on the moon can put women in the constitution. — Margaret Heckler

The traditional dress of the Australian cricketer is the baggy green cap on the head and the chip on the shoulder. Both are ritualistically assumed — Simon Barnes

Write with nouns and verbs, not with adjectives and adverbs. The adjective hasn't been built that can pull a weak or inaccurate noun out of a tight place. — E.B. White

Class isn't something you buy. Look at you. You have a $500 suit on and you're still a lowlife. — Roger Spottiswoode

I'm an artist at heart. — Lance Reddick

It is, you must concede, unpleasantly messy, this business of having feelings, this mattering to each other. I've always thought of it as gory, a sort of perpetually occurring road accident - everyone going too fast, too close, without due care and attention, or with too much ... — Glen Duncan

The past had a perfection that the future could never hold. — Nick Cutter

The other day Father Prior was telling me about a French writer, Jean-Paul Sartre. An existentialist. ... One phrase of his particularly struck me: 'L'enfer c'est les autres.' Do you think he meant that as a joke?"

"I don't think humor's a strong point with existentialists."

"I think it's p-p-poppycock. How can Hell be others? God is manifested in others. God is the Other. That's why the self must lose itself in love for the other. It's the self we must leave behind. Better to say Hell is the Self. L'enfer c'est moi. — Tony Hendra

Justice ought sometimes to protect those least able to protect themselves. — Stephen R. Lawhead

It was important on The Shipping News to have my house far enough away from each location so I had this time in the morning to think about my shots and still remain open to surprises once I got to the set. — Lasse Hallstrom