Sketches Eric Walters Quotes & Sayings

Memory and intention and intuition are fused. The iron is always hot. — Stephen Nachmanovitch

After you stop wanting things is when having them won't make you go crazy. After you stop wanting them is when you can handle having them. Or before. But never during. If you get things when you really want them, you go crazy. Everything becomes distorted when something you really want is sitting in your lap. — Andy Warhol

We have somehow deluded ourselves into thinking that wealth is wisdom — Harry Leslie Smith

Ann turns to me. I know she's waiting for some hint of kindness-a kiss, an embrace, even a smile. But I can't muster any of it.
"You'll make a fine governess." My words are like a slap.
"I know," she answers, a slap of her own. — Libba Bray

Contrary to the movies, police work does not consist solely of chasing after the bad guy down dark, forbidding alleyways. Most of the real chasing is done sitting behind a desk with a telephone glued to the ear, hunting down new leads and investigating paper trails. — Keith Houghton

There are three ways that men get what they want: by planning, by working, and by praying. Any great military operation takes careful planning or thinking. Then you must have well trained troops to carry it out: that's working. But between the plan and the operation there is always an unknown. That unknown spells defeat or victory; success or failure. It is the reaction of the actors to the ordeal when it actually comes. Some people call that getting the breaks. I call it God. God has His part or margin in everything. That's where prayer comes in. — George S. Patton Jr.

To look back all the time is boring. Excitement lies in tomorrow. — Natalia Makarova

Love your children, for they are the seeds that will make this city bloom. — Jessie Burton

I've made movies that are real boy movies - but I've had so much fun over the years working with women and getting good performances with women and with strong female characters. — Michael Lehmann

Before I was an actor, I was never able to hold a job for more than 3 months for some reason. It just wouldn't hold my interest, so there was some way that I wound up quitting or getting fired from it. But being an actor is perfect, because movies usually take about three months to shoot. Then it's over and they say, 'Hey, great job!' — Dennis Quaid

Where hateful Death put on his ugliest mask. — William Shakespeare

You can have all of me, I silently told him, but I'm taking all of you in return. — Jeaniene Frost

The combination of a frivolous form and a serious subject immediately unmasks the truth about our dramas. — Milan Kundera

I have insane curiosity as to what happened in all these events. I will never know. I'm not a researcher. I don't possess that kind of mind. I have a researcher who compiles the fact sheets and chronologies that allow me to write these big books of mine. — James Ellroy