Schnickel Quotes & Sayings

Of what use is the memory of facts, if not to serve as an example of good or of evil? — Alfred De Vigny

You have such a perfect dick," she says as I lean back and close my eyes, my body tensing as I try to restrain myself. "I could write a song about it. — Karina Halle

My first intervention is to say, when your baby is born, just don't jump on your kid at night," Cohen says, "Give your baby a chance to self-soothe, don't automatically respond, even from birth. — Pamela Druckerman

It's not whether you win or lose - but whether I win or lose. — Sandy Lyle

To succeed, planning alone is insufficient. One must improvise as well. — Isaac Asimov

Human nature will never part with power. Look for an example of a voluntary relinquishment of power from one end of the globe to another - you will find none. — Patrick Henry

The purpose of a writer is to make revolution irresistible. — Toni Cade Bambara

Where there's a will there's a detective story. — Carolyn Wells

My only wish would be to have 10 more lives to live on this planet. If that were possible, I'd spend one lifetime each in embryology, genetics, physics, astronomy and geology. The other lifetimes would be as a pianist, backwoodsman, tennis player, or writer for the 'National Geographic.' — Joseph Murray

I was thinking earlier that to know this city you must first become penniless, because pennilessness (real pennilessness, I mean not having $2 for the subway) forces you to walk everywhere and you see the city best on foot. — Emily St. John Mandel

You'd have to take your shoes and breeches off to count to twenty-one! — Scott Lynch

I believe you shouldn't force the audience's interpretation of a character or a story. The more you explain things, the less intriguing and imaginable they are for viewers ... Film to me, in its essence, in its ultimate nature, is silent. Music and dialogue are there to fill what is lacking in the image. But you should be able to tell the story with moving pictures alone. For my next project, though, I'd like to make the kind of film where the characters blabber all the time. — Takeshi Kitano