Snowfox Total Media Quotes & Sayings

A placebo is a phony cure that works. This is very hard for the medical profession to get their teeth around because they hate placebos, but scientifically, placebos work in about 30% of cases that are psychogenic diseases. — Charles Jencks

If I had even the tiniest scrap of advice to give to a young actor who was figuring out how to audition, I would say don't memorize the script ... The reality about auditions is that 98 percent of the results has to do with what you are, not with what you did in the audition. — Wallace Shawn

Before you step into what if, you have to get past if only. — Mark Batterson

Dead men are not friends to living men, and give them no gifts. — J.R.R. Tolkien

[ ... ] as Kurt Vonnegut pointed out [ ... ] the literary novel has become extraordinarily privatistic of late. It's as if the big issues (Does God exist? from whence springs decency? what sort of species is Homo Sapiens?) were either settled or not worth discusssing, and serious writers should therefore confine themselves to their various ethnic heritages and interpersonal relationships. — James K. Morrow

Nothing proves the man-made character of religion as obviously as the sick mind that designed hell. — Christopher Hitchens

He regarded her thoughtfully, and something about that look traveled up her spine like a trailed finger. — Julie Anne Long

Stock prices have been quoted in fractions for two centuries, based on a system descended from Spanish pieces of eight. Each dollar was cut into eight bits worth 12.5 cents each.. — Charles Jaffe

The spectacle in general, as the concrete inversion of life, is the autonomous movement of the non-living. — Guy Debord