Philebus Summary Quotes & Sayings

So long as your desire to explore is greater than your desire to not screw up, you're on the right track. — Ed Helms

Technique is of less interest than character and story. — William Friedkin

If you travel 11 months a year - from one dangerous or isolated situation to the next - if you live in hotels, and every relationship with another human being is a two-week relationship, the only other people who have any idea what you're going through or how strung out you are are other photographers. — Rick Smolan

He asked if there were more things she had lied about. She said she had to think. She said she was still thinking. After about two minutes she said she was still thinking. — Tao Lin

The word 'free-lance', I used to think, had a romantic ring; but sadly discovered, when I tried to be one, that its practice has little freedom, and the lance is a sorry weapon to tilt at literary windmills. — Colin MacInnes

You will not pass! Roman thundered.
Great. Now he had decided he was Gandalf. — Ilona Andrews

All my work shares a kind of balance between black comedy and sad and despairing melancholy. — Martin McDonagh

to myself as I glanced over at her thick ass lying naked next to me. I was so in love with her smooth cocoa skin and that fat ghetto ass. She had me hypnotized by her big brown eyes... that long black hair...and her smell!!! Damn my bitch was fine and I loved the shit out of her, but — Niki Jilvontae

Perhaps misguided moral passion is better than confused indifference. — Iris Murdoch

So much happiness is caged in language, ready to burst out anytime and fade — Rae Armantrout

You must keep your honor! You can't speak for the country; you can do little about the national economy or actions of moral weaklings who excuse themselves with the expression, "That is politics; nor can you be responsible for deception in others. But you are responsible for yourself! There are no collective panaceas - only individual ones." — Ezra Taft Benson

Acting is a job you can learn a lot in. You get to play lots of different characters with different professions and different backgrounds; they come from different places than you do, so it's really fun when you're immersing yourself in that world of that person to learn about how other people's lives are. — Kelly McCreary