Shysters Practice Quotes & Sayings

When I was making these damned pictures, I never knew about film noir. If you had asked me about it then, I probably would have pointed to something like Bill Wellman's The Ox Bow Incident, the best Western I ever saw and very much in the style of film noir I don't care if it's a mystery story, a Western, or the story of Julius Caesar. To me it's the emotion, the lies, the double-cross that defines what kind of drama it is. — Samuel Fuller

But the silent majority and I do have one memorial, at least. The Disaster. We have small lives, easily lost in foreign droughts, or famines; the occasional incendiary incident, or a wall of pale faces, crushed against grillwork, one Saturday afternoon in Spring. This is not enough. — A. L. Kennedy

Man's greatest drive is not love or hate but to change another person's writing. — George Orwell

A digging fork is a stout, short-handled tool with four flat tines about a foot long ... for weeding I use it delicately to nudge the soil loose from roots without breaking them ... — Sara Bonnett Stein

The Subject has really blue eyes that twinkle when he looks at someone like she's maybe a little bit insane. — Ally Carter

You can't break the rules until you know how to play the game. — Rickie Lee Jones

I'd just play 'til my hands fell off. My parents would yell at me to stop because they couldn't stand the noise any more! I was terrible! It must have been hard for them to listen to me as a beginning drummer. — Randy Castillo

it at the same time. Dreaded the pain of looking at — Karen Rose

When you feel discouraged or simply lazy, as is bound to happen sometimes, remember the millions of people in the world who have not had your privilege. Remember the poor and obscure lives of those countless millions who suffer from every sort of deprivation and frequently find themselves the unwilling victim of wars, and a variety of cruelties, perpetuated by man on man. Is it not significant that the first bid for self realization, among the poor and downtrodden, is to assert their right to education? — Jehan Sadat

Taking out werewolves, I gather and surmise, is akin to taking out a SEAL team. — Patricia Briggs

Understanding is, after all, what science is all about - and science is a great deal more than mindless computation. — Roger Penrose

All of us have life; few of us have an idea of it. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

You don't trust money to a junkie. You don't trust money to anyone with hard needs. — Walter Kaylin