Shooting An Elephant Symbolism Quotes & Sayings

When I did 'The Passion,' nobody believed in the movie. Everybody was telling me, 'You shouldn't do this movie ... But I wanted to play Mary Magdalene. I thought that I could do something strong and deep with this character. — Monica Bellucci

Every last word is contagious, — Jericho Brown

You aint ready for that. — Cormac McCarthy

There are all these people bragging about how they're survivors, as though that's something very special. But the only kind of person who can't say that is a corpse. — Kurt Vonnegut

I always thought that a veruca was a sort of wart that you got on the sole of your foot! — Roald Dahl

I like Paris because I find something here, something of integrity, which I seem to have strangely lost in my own country. It is simplest of all to say that I like to live among people and surroundings where I am not always conscious of 'thou shall not.' I am colored and wish to be known as colored, but sometimes I have felt that my growth as a writer has been hampered in my own country. And so - but only temporarily - I have fled from it. — Jessie Redmon Fauset

There's never been a moment," he barely said, "when I didn't recognize you. — Rainbow Rowell

...there are some children who aren't really children at all, they're just pillars of flame that burn everything they touch. And there are some children who are just pillars of ash, that fall apart when you touch them..."
~ Thomas Builds-the-Fire (played by Evan Adams)
in Alexie's "Smoke Signals — Sherman Alexie

I still think like a Marxist in many ways. — Christopher Hitchens

I'll have your fathers make something special," Holly said serenely. "If it turns out we don't like him, I'll cook the next meal for him. — Maya Banks