Prisioneros Trailer Quotes & Sayings

If I remember correctly, pages 26, 42, 58, 77, 91, 103 and 118, basically all the places in the script where one of my people has a speaking part, he or she screams. No words, just screams. So you should at least get the screams right. — Viet Thanh Nguyen

It is better to try something and fail than to try nothing and succeed. The result may be the same, but you won't be. We always grow more through defeats than victories. — Soren Kierkegaard

One flesh. Or if you prefer, one ship. The starboard engine has gone. I, the port engine, must chug along somehow till we make harbour. Or rather, till the journey ends. — C.S. Lewis

I have occupied this idle, empty winter with writing a story. It has been written to please myself, without thought of my own vanity or modesty, without regard for other people's feelings, without considering whether I shock or hurt the living, without scrupling to speak of the dead.

The world, I know, is changing. I am not indifferent to the revolution that has caught us in its mighty skirts, to the enormity of the flood that is threatening to submerge us. But what could I do? In the welter of the surrounding storm, I have taken refuge for a moment on this little raft, constructed with the salvage of my memory. I have tried to steer it into that calm haven of art in which I still believe. I have tried to avoid some of the rocks and sandbanks that guard its entrance.

[from the introduction] — Dorothy Bussy

Happiness is the contentment in the heart, peace of mind, a sense of stability, a right attitude and being content with what is sufficient. — Moazzam Shaikh

Only adversity provides the opportunity for greatness. — Wayde Goodall

And one's wandering proved as sterile and pointless as the excitement produced by a close study of pornographic albums. — Bruno Schulz

A very, terribly long time ago,
before such things as television
and good table manners or even
children, ferocious monsters
roamed a younger, angrier world. — Berkeley Breathed

Your function as a critic is to show that it is really you yourself who should have written the book, if you had had the time, and since you hadn't you are glad that someone else had, although obviously it might have been done better. — Stephen Potter

I get labelled as just being about one thing, but there's lots of layers to what I do. It's just lazy journalism, but people start to accept it. If people spent an hour in my car driving around London and listening to the stuff I listen to, they'd hear some interesting stuff. — Paul Weller

In a matter of weeks, he had learned that without suffering and doubt, there can be no whole human being. — Sinclair Lewis

Not forgiving someone is like not pulling a thorn out of your foot just because you weren't the one to put it there. — Mercedes Lackey