Revolta De Beckman Quotes & Sayings

There is only one true aristocracy ... and that is the aristocracy of passionate souls! — Tennessee Williams

The only thing that makes a book YA is that it is about teenagers, and it is written in a very conventional, non-artsy, non-pretentious way. YA is not the place for the oblique or the cryptic. If it is in any way experimental in form, it is not YA. — Russell Smith

When Frank the Pug is singing I Will Survive, the only reason it's funny is that Will is in that shot trying not to get angry. A shot of a dog singing I Will Survive on its own will not get a laugh. — Barry Sonnenfeld

Take pride in your pain; you are stronger than those who have none — Lois Lowry

Whoever does not hold his tongue cannot understand his deen. — Hasan Of Basra

New music? Hell, there's been no new music since Stravinsky. — Duke Ellington

If you have a high-way on Everest, you don't meet the mountain. If everything is prepared, and you have a guide who is responsible for your security, you cannot meet the mountain. Meeting mountains is only possible if you ... are out there in self-sufficiency. — Reinhold Messner

I live, I am partisan. This is why I hate those who do not take sides; I hate those who are indifferent — Antonio Gramsci

Sometimes just seeing a woman smile is like a knife in the heart. It hurts and it rattles your whole system, but against all your instincts you swallow the pain and keep looking. After a while you realize it doesn't hurt as much as you thought it would. — Richard Kadrey

Don't waste your youthful and active days on employment — Sunday Adelaja

Just as eunuchs will never know aesthetics as applied to the selection of beautiful women, so neither will pure rationalists ever know ethics, nor will they ever succeed in defining happiness, for happiness is a thing that is lived and felt, not a thing that is reasoned or defined. — Miguel

I get just as much of a thrill out of constructing a good sentence that gets a laugh at the end as I do from a joke. — Julian Clary

You know, in Hollywood you know when somebody is getting pregnant. It's supposed to be this beautiful scene: the rays are coming in and you have these beautiful perfect bodies lying on top of each other and there's the room glowing in one person's eyes and the sun coming up over the other person's shoulder. — Staceyann Chin

The reason ... our pervasive cultural irony is at once so powerful and so unsatisfying is that an ironist is impossible to pin down. — David Foster Wallace

If the Good Lord made a mistake in us people it was in making us want to live when we've got the least excuse for it. — Jim Thompson