Roadmakers Quotes & Sayings

I'm very boring. But I'm a bit obsessed with women that are so incredibly solid in their shoes that they don't care what other people think of them. I just think there's something so interesting about that kind of confidence. — Melissa McCarthy

We try to be real nice and friendly to people, but sometimes they take advantage of that. — Layne Staley

People hate it when you call them on jackassery. That's a big fact of human nature: Not a lot of people want to be called on being assholes. They prefer to do their assholishness in the dark and cover it up with fancy words. Because they don't mind being evil - they just hate being evil where people might see. — Lili St. Crow

As for writing about temptation, there's no drama without temptation, and no novel without drama. — Tom Perrotta

And yet you're a knight. (Rowena)
Because I have seen the great evil that is done on this earth to those who can't fight for themselves. The meek only inherit the grave while the strong go on until someone stronger stops them. (Stryder) — Kinley MacGregor

Communicate at all times with the Creator. — Lailah Gifty Akita

I know that I haven't powers enough to divide myself into one who earns and one who creates. — Tillie Olsen

My body could stand the crutches but my mind couldn't stand the sideline. — Michael Jordan

Not long ago, a novelist could believe he could have an effect on our consciousness of terror. Today, the men who shape and inflence human consciousness are the terrorists. — Don DeLillo

I'd like to do radio just like pictures - leave the imperfect stuff on the cutting-room floor. — Al Jolson

When he painted a road, the roadmakers were there in his imagination, when he painted the turned earth of a ploughed field, the gesture of the blade turning the earth was included in his own act. Whenever he looked he saw the labour of existence; and this labour, recognised as such, was what constituted reality for him. (On Vincent Van Gogh) — John Berger