Ravasheen Quotes & Sayings

My ultimare goal is, without illusion and without sentimentality, merely by telling the truth as I see it, to break your heart. If I can break your heart and cause your awareness to expand to include another person's experience, even a fictional person's experience, and to inhabit for a moment their sorrow and suffering, then I think it expands us as people. — Nic Pizzolatto

I usually don't mind movies that people think go overboard because that's what art is all about. Art is about pushing us and making us examine ourselves. — Ice Cube

You will find that most prisons are forged in someone's own mind. And they invariably possess the key to their release if they could but think to use it. — Jeff Wheeler

I'm perfectly flawed ... I've got tons of flaws. — Rob Lowe

Now listen. I made the phone call you asked me to make. I don't care right now about what Cam is doing, or finding out, or anything. I care about you, woman. And I haven't fucked you in a month, so if I were you I'd be thinking about how you're going to spend the rest of the reception without any underwear on because it's about to come off. — Lauren Blakely

When you can't cheat the game, you'd best find a means to cheat the players. — Scott Lynch

In 1865, Scotsman Thomas Sutherland started the Hongkong Shanghai Banking Company (later HSBC). A senior Chinese government official had issued a warrant for future HSBC board member Thomas Dent in 1839, to close his opium warehouses. This helped spark the first Opium War. France's Le Monde Diplomatique said that "HSBC's first wealth came from opium from India, and later Yunan in China." Yunan is in the Golden Triangle area. The first Opium War forced China to cede Shanghai to Western powers, transforming it from a fishing village to China's largest, most modern city with a network of opium smoking dens. Prof. Alfred McCoy would eventually call Hong Kong "Asia's heroin laboratory," and HSBC would become the world's second largest bank. — John L. Potash

I think that when you're writing fiction what you're doing is reflecting life as you see it, and putting down how you think and how other people think, and the sort of confusions that you don't normally like to admit to. — Helen Fielding

The lightbulb is gone," she said awed. "Emma, you said, 'Lights, begone' and you literally made the lights be gone."
"How do I get them back?" I asked, panicked. "What's the opposite of begone? Regone? — Cara Lynn Shultz

Is there anything worse than feeling alone when you're surrounded by your friends? — Gemma Burgess