Quente Quotes & Sayings

I'm one of those actors who says, "Point me toward the work that matters to me and I don't care where you're putting it. Television show. Movie. Projected on the back of someone's garage." If that's where the work is that's exciting to me and moving, I want to be there. — David Oyelowo

I've only ever been recognised in the street once. In Sweden, strangely. — David Nicholls

Beside some philosophers of larger vision, Carlyle stands like an honest, half-despairing boy, grasping at some details only of their world systems. — Henry David Thoreau

Then I went home to continue my life, which had changed a little, as lives do every day, inching by microspecks forward toward whatever surprises are coming next. — Lois Lowry

I don't understand why people enjoy different things than I do, so I'm going to make a passive aggressive comment about it. — Anonymous

She had the face of a chocolate box Madonna and larceny in her heart. — Deanna Raybourn

The ideal is not believing in, but believing from. — Eric Butterworth

Curiosity did not kill the cat all by itself. — Laird Barron

For just as the first general precepts of the law of nature are self-evident to one in possession of natural reason, and have no need of promulgation, so also that of believing in God is primary and self-evident to one who has faith: for he that cometh to God must believe that he is. — Thomas Aquinas

to do with his natural exuberance — Nicholas Sparks

I really don't have an ear for pitch. I can't sing at all, I can't hum melodies and I can't write riffs. — Patrick Carney

I was a blank canvas, no thoughts, no emotions, no needs or desires, just a square of white floating through a loud, chaotic world, and life would paint me with color and substance, smear and spread and colorize me. — Jasinda Wilder

TV is where writers get to tell interesting stories. Because writers, for the most part, run television. — Vince Gilligan