Schickel Quotes & Sayings

It's my opinion that if you're trying to tell a realistic story that centers around realistic characters, you can't help but touch on important issues. Those issues are what make us human. — Patrick Rothfuss

When people say that college isn't worthwhile and paying all this money isn't worthwhile, I really disagree. I think those experiences and those classes that may not necessarily seem applicable in the moment end up coming back to you time and time again. — Kevin Systrom

Luck always favors the comely. — Richard Schickel

A movie star is not an artist, he is an art object. — Richard Schickel

He who does not like you will defame you in jest. — Richard Schickel

Boethius moved from considering history from the actor's point of view to a "timeless" eternal view. From the divine perspective, nothing is ever utterly lost, because all of life is possessed by God in the eternal now. Though time was gnawing away at Boethius and stealing all he valued, God was beyond time and loss. Gaining this philosophical vantage allowed the last Roman to become one of the first men of the Middle Ages. — John Mark Reynolds

When you're not a mom, you can get up in the middle of the night, paint, sleep all morning ... you can't do that when you have two children! — Julie Mehretu

Whenever I watch a show and twentysomethings have a lot of 'Star Wars' references, I know it's written by a 40-year-old dude. — Anders Holm

He was the first to conceive of movies as an art form. His belief was that if the traditional art form would not find room for him, then he would make an art form of his own. — Richard Schickel

A great novel is concerned primarily with the interior lives of its characters as they respond to the inconvenient narratives that fate imposes on them. Movie adaptations of these monumental fictions often fail because they become mere exercises in interior decoration. — Richard Schickel

Holiness sincerity, and faith. — Swami Vivekananda

That is God's way. He upsets everything and loves to annoy the vain most of all. — Judith Merkle Riley

There is a limbo of the lost through which American males of a certain age and status almost inevitably must pass these days. — Richard Schickel

Divorced, not loving their abandoned children as much as they loathe their former wives, directing a combination of need and hostility toward the women who drift in and out of their new lives, they are, as [one character] puts it, involved in a variety of pharmaceutical experiments. — Richard Schickel

Any dramatic series the producers want us to take seriously as a representationof contemporary reality cannot be taken seriously as a representation ofanything - except a show to be ignored by anyone capable of sitting uprightin a chair and chewing gum simultaneously. — Richard Schickel

Dreaming carries no risks. The dangerous thing is trying to transform your dreams into reality. — Paulo Coelho

The law of unintended consequences pushes us ceaselessly through the years, permitting no pause for perspective. — Richard Schickel

Our Creator would never have made such lovely days, and have given us the deep hearts to enjoy them, above and beyond all thought, unless we were meant to be immortal. — Nathaniel Hawthorne

This is a soul under perpetual migraine attack. — Richard Schickel

Avoid that which an enemy tells you to do; for if you follow his advice, you will smite your, knees with the hand of sorrow. If he shows you a road straight as an arrow, turn from it and go the other way. — Saadi

You know, if you're an American and you're born at this time in history especially, you're lucky. We all are. We won the world history Powerball lottery. — Bill Maher

Chastity, like honesty, is a civic as well as a personal virtue. When a society loses chastity, it begins to destroy itself. — J. William Schickel

I had a lot of songs and words and scenes stuck inside of me. So Jacknife encouraged me to bring them all out. So, in essence, 'You and Others' is my diary. — Johnny McDaid

That common cold of the male psyche, fear of commitment. — Richard Schickel

Epictetus, I think, said not to be concerned with death, because life is the presence of feeling and emotion and awareness, and death is the absence of all of that, which means you won't have any awareness. So why worry about it ? — Richard Schickel

Memory is the personal journalism of the soul. — Richard Schickel

The current moguls understand that true media power lies not in firing up our outrage, as Hearst did, but in befuddling it or tranquilizing it with new toys. The idea is to render us passive so that they can exercise their power to sell us a bunch of stuff we mostly don't need and mostly don't want. — Richard Schickel