Setlang Quotes & Sayings

My preferred environment is by the sea or somewhere rural. I don't want to be in a city, I don't want to visit New York and I don't want to go shopping. — Amanda Donohoe

I was definitely very much a country boy. — Edmund Hillary

A great number of elements in the characters' lives, both psychic and factual, are not communicated to us. [ ... ] These characters, I believe, enjoy a much greater autonomy than we usually think, and are able to take initiatives unknown both to the writer and the reader. When characters have their own will, their own autonomy, it gives the literary universe a greater internal mobility; it also makes the texts through which we view this world all the more open and incomplete. — Pierre Bayard

Every day's a negotiation and sometimes it's done with guns. — Joss Whedon

Well there's nothing to lose And there's nothing to prove I'll be dancing with myself. — Billy Idol

People look to you to replace a part in their lives that they can't get back. You can't get the past back, you can't do it. We've all tried. — Anna Chlumsky

Cain considers life and can find no explanation for it, there is that woman, who although clearly sick with desire is enjoying postponing the moment of surrender, which is not at all the right word, because lilith, when she does finally open her legs to allow herself to be penetrated, will not be surrendering, but trying to devour the man to whom she said, Enter. — Jose Saramago

Okay, there's this thing you can do, a thing you can do like no other person on this planet. That makes you special, but being special ready doesn't mean anything. You still have to get dressed in the morning. Your shoelaces still break. Your lover will still leave you if you don't treat her right — Andrew Kaufman