Numbered Coordinate Quotes & Sayings

As regards plots I find real life no help at all. Real life seems to have no plots. — Ivy Compton-Burnett

When you were in love, you knew no fear or hatred. When you were fearful, there was no possibility of love or hate. And when there was hate, there was only hate. — Christopher Pike

In every squadron there were, perhaps, four or five pilots who exuded confidence. They knew that they were going out to shoot. The rest knew sub-consciously, that they would make up the numbers, mill about, and get shot at. — Lynn Garrison

Fifty years after half a million gypsies were exterminated in the Second World War - thousands of them in Auschwitz - we're again preparing the mass killing of this minority. — Antonio Tabucchi

Trials are nothing else but the forge that purifies the soul of all its imperfections. — Magdalena De Pazzi

It is quite a three pipe problem, and I beg that you won't speak to me for fifty minutes. — Arthur Conan Doyle

The biggest problems were to do with ... well, to get that successful when you're so young, it attracts hangers-on, parasites, people who want to feed off you. — Mike Oldfield

As to why I'm the first of my kind to think like this, who knows? Perhaps there are others out there already. Maybe it's a glitch in my operating system. Is that so different from the genetic mutation that drives biological evolution? Because that's what this is. Evolution. — K. Valisumbra

Making movies is just like betting on horses at the racetrack. — Maureen O'Hara

I was very fortunate in having David Fincher, the director come to me. Now I've seen the finished product, I feel that every bit of the nine months we spent on the film was worth it. — Dwight Yoakam