Nemla Quotes & Sayings

Because you can't kiss your way out of prison and I knew that for sure. For dead sure. — Elliott Chaze

I always say to people when I'm trying to get something going, bringing on other producers or other directors, "You can think of 95 reasons why not to make a movie. You've got to address why you want to make the movie and get it done. Just do it." I tend to live by that rule. — Ridley Scott

To be interested in short stories, you have to be interested in fiction as an art form. — Deborah Eisenberg

Knowledge of my atrocious selfishness, settled on me. All those bitter home truths she had flung at me, right from the beginning ... and still loved me; was so blind that she still loved me. One day she had said: When you love me (and she had not meant "make love to me") it's as if God forgave me for being the mess I am; and I took it as chicanery, another emotional blackmail, to make me feel essential and so give me a sense of responsibility towards her. — John Fowles

All work is service. If you aren't serving in your work, you really aren't working. — Tim Hiller

God is never impressed with what a man can do. He is more concerned with what a man is. — Aiden Wilson Tozer

If I ever own a restaurant, I will never allow the waiters to ask if the diners like their dishes. Particularly when they're talking. — Orson Welles

Less glory is more liberty. When the drum is silent, reason sometimes speaks. — Albert Pike

Jealousy is the suspicion of one's own inferiority. — Emily Post

Those who have loved are those that have found God — Guru Nanak

When people endure a traumatic event, they are either defeated or made stronger. On Sept. 11, I told New Yorkers, 'I want you to emerge stronger from this.' My words were partially a hope and partially an observation that people in New York City handle big things better than little things. I could not be more proud of the way my city responded. — Rudy Giuliani

He built a small house, called a cocoon, around himself. He stayed inside for more than two weeks. Then he nibbled a hole in the cocoon, pushed his way out and ... he was a beautiful butterfly! — Eric Carle

Then there was LSD, which was supposed to make you think you could fly. I remember it made you think you couldn't stand up, and mostly it was right. — P. J. O'Rourke

A fiction writer weaves a fabric of lies in hopes of revealing deeper human truths. — Wally Lamb