Penny Dreadful Demimonde Quotes & Sayings

Go forth on your path, as it exists only through your walking. — Saint Augustine

What kind of influence do you want to have? What kind of effect do you want to have on other people? Never mistake the power of influence. — Jim Rohn

One of the advantages of not having a record contract is that you can make your own mistakes, you don't need somebody else to organize them for you. — Herbie Mann

Until the dead are buried they change somewhat in appearance each day. The color change in Caucasian races is from white to yellow, to yellow-green, to black. If left long enough in the heat the flesh comes to resemble coal-tar, especially where it has been broken or torn, and it has quite a visible tarlike iridescence. The dead grow larger each day until sometimes they become quite too big for their uniforms, filling these until they seem blown tight enough to burst. The individual members may increase in girth to an unbelievable extent and faces fill as taut and globular as balloons. — Ernest Hemingway,

I have never believed in the axiom that a writer should first and foremost write about what he knows. I think it's a piece of misinformation. — William Trevor

The only thing that surprised me about 'Lincoln' is that most of the critics who reviewed the film seem not to have grasped what should have been apparent right from the start, which is that 'Lincoln' is at bottom a play with pictures, not a screenplay. — Terry Teachout