Nocturne Op Quotes & Sayings

There was no doubt that there was a vast organization which was making fools of all the liberals in Hollywood and taking their money, that there was a police state among the Left element in Hollywood and Broadway. — Elia Kazan

We try so hard as Christians. We think such long thoughts, manipulate such long words, and both listen to and preach such long sermons. Each one of us somewhere, somehow, has known, if only for a moment or so, something of what it is to feel the shattering love of God, and once that has happened, we can never rest easy again for trying somehow to set that love forth not only in words, myriads of words, but in our lives themselves. — Frederick Buechner

Don't write so that you can be understood, write so that you can't be misunderstood. — William Howard Taft

Novels are very different than films and I love to see someone else's imagining of my story. — Nicholas Sparks

In designing the scenery and costumes for any of Shakespeare's plays, the first thing the artist has to settle is the best date for the drama. This should be determined by the general spirit of the play more than by any actual historical references which may occur in it. — Oscar Wilde

Serve God with integrity, and if you achieve no success, at least no sin will lie upon your conscience. — Charles Spurgeon

It's more important to be happy than well-dressed. — Iris Apfel

She would certainly eat only black bread and drink only water rather than sell her soul, and she would not surrender her moral freedom in return for comfort; she wouldn't surrender it for all Schleswig-Holstein [ ... ] — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

I wish you good writing and good luck. Even if you've already done the good writing, you'll still need the good luck. It's a shark-filled lagoon out there. Cross your fingers and watch your back. — Margaret Atwood

I can rely on me [being a director], unlike some actors. I never got anything less than what I needed from the lead actor. — Russell Crowe

This identity, this mind, this particular cast of speech, is nearly over. — Harold Brodkey