Philip Seymour Hoffman Synecdoche New York Quotes & Sayings

Good preservation is a life preserver thrown to us in a shipwreck. Good preservation keeps us in touch with the graces of this life. It's bricks and mortar, yes. It's arguments about true colors and authenticity and representation. But true preservation is like the hand that shelters a fire from the wind. It protects the spark of life.
Howard Mansfield, The Same Ax, Twice — Howard Mansfield

There is poetry as soon as we realize that we possess nothing. — John Cage

Mark Twain, the thinking man's Colonel Sanders, reputedly said, America is New York, New Orleans, and San Francisco. Everywhere else is Cleveland. — Russell Brand

I've only myself to blame for it, my impotence most of all and my weakness. If I do any good work now it will be only by chance. — Claude Monet

Those who desire only the good pleasure of God abide in peace even in the midst of failure, for God has not told us that He requires success of us. — Rose Philippine Duchesne

Everything in us presses toward decision, even toward the wrong decision, just to be free of the anxiety that precedes any big step in life. — May Sarton

she had been interested in many things, but nothing had completely satisfied her; indeed, she hardly desired complete satisfaction. Her intellect was at the same time inquiring and indifferent; her doubts were never soothed to forgetfulness, and they never grew strong enough to distract her. Had she not been rich and independent, she would perhaps have thrown herself into the struggle, and have known passion. But life was easy for her, though she was bored at times, and she went on passing day after day with deliberation, never in a hurry, placid, and only rarely disturbed. — Anton Chekhov

Whoever you support, you've got that blood in your veins — Phil Neal

Remember, your words are your power. Never forget your words — Lang Leav

Ah, yes, the departmental shrink. And in the silence that followed, he knew everyone was waiting for him to groan, but he wasn't a Lethal Weapon wild card, damn it.
Yeah. For example, he couldn't dislocate his shoulder, he didn't live on the beach with a dog, and he wasn't rocking a death wish. You're welcome. — J.R. Ward

People with daddy issues can always spot a fellow traveler. — Bentley Little

A director is someone who presides over a series of accidents. — Orson Welles

I wanted to turn everything off, too. Just press a button - click - and shut myself down. Turn off my heart, turn off my mind, turn off my body - just lie there, senseless, like a dormant tree in winter, waiting for the spring to return. — Kevin Brooks

It's so important that we say 'I can see his point of view and I can see his point of view'. — Robert Hood