Sprocket Quotes & Sayings

No story is the same to us after a lapse of time; or rather we who read it
are no longer the same interpreters. — George Eliot

If you can't handle the responsibility of a hit single, don't write one. — Joe Elliott

How well Horatius kept the bridge In the brave days of old. — Thomas B. Macaulay

I'M CONFUSED, because I don't know why it's so hard to obey a policeman. You will not win!!! And I don't know why some policeman abuse their power. Power is a responsibility, not a weapon to brandish and lord over the populace. — Benjamin Watson

He is incredibly handsome. You never realized before how beautiful evil could be. — Teresa Lo

Nothing is so useless as a general maxim. — Thomas Babington Macaulay

Frowning I playfully blow a fresh handful of bubbles at him as we walks back out, laughing over his shoulder at me. — A.J. Young

Managers tell you where you are, leaders tell you where you're going. — Rands

Dean took out other pictures. I realized these were all the snapshots which our children would look at someday with wonder, thinking their parents had lived smooth, well-ordered, stabilized-within-the-photo lives and got up in the morning to walk proudly on the sidewalks of life, never dreaming the raggedy madness and riot of our actual lives, or actual night, the hell of it, the senseless nightmare road. — Jack Kerouac

Once in a while,
I remember who we used to be. — Kelsey Sutton

Sprocket fiend is the name I have for the subterranean dimension to my film addiction. The subtle, beneath-the-sound-track sound of the clattering projector in those old rep theaters, especially the New Beverly. The defiant, twenty-four-frames-per-second mechanical heartbeat that says, at least for the duration of whatever movie you're watching, the world's time doesn't apply to you. You're safe in whatever chronal flow the director chooses to take you through. Real time, or a span of months or years, or backward and forward through a life. You are given the space of a film to steal time. And the projector is your only clock. And the need for that subtle, clicking sprocket time makes you - made me - a sprocket fiend. — Patton Oswalt

He touched her cheek, and he looked into her eyes. He saw his whole world there — Julia Quinn

It went automatically to a heavy-weight mother with beetling eyebrows who looked as if she had just come from doing a spot of knitting at the foot of the guillotine. — P.G. Wodehouse