Quietnesses Quotes & Sayings

My fate has been that what I undertook was fully understood only after the fact. — Benoit Mandelbrot

To have time for it, I left off prayer which was to me the first inlet of evils. — Jeanne Marie Bouvier De La Motte Guyon

Because I was successful over the years, I never had the opportunity to do the stuff I really wanted. — Rick Derringer

There's nothing like working with the best actors possible, and if you have a piece of material like, 'Long Way Down' or 'Love Punch,' which allows you to play, then it's just a joy to go to work. — Pierce Brosnan

When writing is great, Mitchell told me of the books he loved as a reader, your mind is nowhere else but in this world that started off in the mind of another human being. There are two miracles at work here. One, that someone thought of that world and people in the first place. And the second, that there's this means of transmitting it. Just little ink marks on squashed wood fiber. Bloody amazing. — David Mitchell

I have hundreds of Word documents filled with pages of one-liners. If I begin to write a story, or if one of my thoughts leads to more than a couple paragraphs of writing, I'll go into these documents and pull out lines that I think would work with it. — Chelsea Martin

The occupational hazard of being a Playboy Bunny is the aching facial muscles brought on by obligatory smiles. — Germaine Greer