Stoplights For Sale Quotes & Sayings

I always thought it was both impious and unnatural that such immanity and bloody strife should reign among professors of one faith. — William Shakespeare

When I was younger, I'd make a point of driving to the middle of nowhere and spending an evening with just me, the wind, and the moon. Your skin crawls up an octave. This is what I tap into when I'm working on horror films. I'm just afraid a time will come when I lose touch with that part of myself. — Christopher Young

Take your time, think a lot,
Why, think of everything you've got.
For you will still be here tomorrow, but your dreams may not.
From the moment I could talk I was ordered to listen.
Now there's a way and I know that I have to go away.
I know I have to go. — Cat Stevens

The freer the soul, the more abstract painting becomes. — Marc Chagall

Propaganda must facilitate the displacement of aggression by specifying the targets for hatred. — Joseph Goebbels

Come on in, I've got a sale
on scratch and dent dreams,
whole cases of imperfect ambitions
stuff the idealists couldn't sell.
Yeah, I know none of its got price tags,
you decide how much its worth.
And none of its got glossy colored packaging
but it all works just fine.
I've got rainy day swing sets
good night kisses and stationary stars
still flying at the speed of light.
And over there out back
if you dig down through those
alabaster stoplights and those old 45's
you'll find a whole crate of second hand hope.
Yeah right there, that's no chrome,
you just gotta work, polish it up a little bit.
Most folks give up too easy,
trade it in for some injection mold
and here and now. — Eric Darby

Side? I am on nobody's side, because nobody is on my side, little orc. — J.R.R. Tolkien

I do think a good story in a novel is fair game and there's nothing wrong with adapting that. It sometimes gets a bit facile where they think: "Let's get the next best-seller and see if we can turn it into a film." — Colin Firth

The constant abuse of online activity must stop. — Joe Barton

Stay a little and news will find you. — George Herbert

If you are willing to jump in front of a car to save a friend, then that friendship is real. — Arina Tanemura

My hope for my children must be that they respond to the still, small voice of God in their own hearts. — Andrew Young

What's going to happen when I die? I may be buried, or I may be cremated, I may give my body to science. I haven't decided yet. — Richard Dawkins

Don't look back until you've written an entire draft, just begin each day from the last sentence you wrote the preceding day. This prevents those cringing feelings, and means that you have a substantial body of work before you get down to the real work which is all in ... the edit.
[Ten rules for writing fiction (part two), The Guardian, 20 February 2010] — Will Self