Steinn Rmann Quotes & Sayings

I never really feel that I'm stuck. I actually think that people are never stuck, there's no such thing as writers block, I think that theres terror that can silence you. But if you can think of it as a dynamic thing I mean a writers block, it's a paralysis an immobility and the thing that has immobilized you is a very powerful force. Immobility is itself an act, it's a choice. It can sometimes take as much energy to remain immobile as it does to be mobile. And if you think of it in a dynamic way then it'd freeze you from the sense that at some point your talent will simply abandon you and you're just a vacant shell with nothing to say, I don't think that ever really happens. But I think that terror, bad experience, trauma and so on can absolutely silence you. — Tony Kushner

I can't cook. I can barely make a bowl of cereal. — Bill Hader

A friend who had a very charming and dangerous brother. — Lorraine Heath

I don't get distracted until the weight of other things left undone finally tips the balance; my mind is flooded with calls, bills, supermarkets, letters, and I have to stop and sort things out. — Sadie Jones

I'm pretty skeptical about Hollywood and its fascination with the sequel and the franchise. — Joel Edgerton

The Bible takes much of its color from whoever is reading it, and it provides a text to support almost every shade of opinion, however preposterous. — Robertson Davies

My soul's a little grief, grappling your chest,
To climb your throat on sobs; easily chased
On other sighs and wiped by fresher winds. — Wilfred Owen

Knowledge has the power to help us avoid making bad choices that produce bad results. — Zig Ziglar

The church has a deep well of joy, of which none can drink but her own children. There are stores of wine, and oil, and corn, hidden in the midst of our Jerusalem, upon which the saints of God are evermore sustained and nurtured; and sometimes, as in our Saviour's case, we have our seasons of intense delight — Charles Haddon Spurgeon

The etiquette question that troubles so many fastidious people New Year's Day is: How am I ever going to face those people again? — Judith Martin

Ninety per cent of the theory of Impressionist painting is in ... Ruskin's Elements. — Claude Monet

My love is not water in a bucket, you know. It's not as if someone else can drink it all up and leave none left for you. — Elizabeth Bear