Mycophile Books Quotes & Sayings

When you live in the dark for so long, you begin to love it. And it loves you back, and isn't that the point? You think, the face turns to the shadows, and just as well. It accepts, it heals, it allows. But it also devours. — Raymond Carver

It is one of the few elements in the process that a director really, really can't control: an actor's performance. If you have a director that understands that, it's comforting to an actor. You're starting the relationship more as a collaborator, rather than as an employee or some kind of a soldier trying to execute something you don't organically feel. — Jason Bateman

I was going to do something I'd never done, and see things I could not understand and never believed existed.
This is history, and it is also the truth. — Andrew Smith

Joblessness gives you liberty — Sunday Adelaja

In many countries, schools are preparing students to participate in a democratic environment; yet schools themselves tend to be extremely autocratic, with all high-level decisions being made by adults. — Adora Svitak

Early to bed and early to rise probably indicates unskilled labor. — John Ciardi

I'm trying to understand cosmology, why the Big Bang had the properties it did. And it's interesting to think that connects directly to our kitchens and how we can make eggs, how we can remember one direction of time, why causes precede effects, why we are born young and grow older. It's all because of entropy increasing. — Sean M. Carroll

The difference between a friend and an enemy is friendliness. — Frank Delaney

Gestating characters feels something like the mental equivalent of gestating a baby. In both cases, to create them you lose yourself. Or at least you reshape yourself to encompass them. — Ann Brashares

And me I'm in my bedroom drawing in my notebook Because my hand thinks I'm an artist But my heart knows I'm a poet It's just words they mean so little to me. — Conor Oberst

Sometimes I think I'm a one-trick pony because I'm not very inventive about new ways of telling stories. — Sara Paretsky

Successful generals make plans to fit circumstances, but do not try to create circumstances to fit plans. — George S. Patton

I don't listen to people who can't do stuff that I do. — Shaquille O'Neal

We waddled through life blindly, hoping to find something - and someone - worth fighting for. — Susan Dennard

Diaper backward spells repaid. Think about it. — Marshall McLuhan