Stringently Enforced Quotes & Sayings

there's music in everything, even defeat - but — Charles Bukowski

The sermon of your life in tough times ministers to people more powerfully than the most eloquent speaker. — Bill Bright

I was a painter before I was a writer, so I was always a visual artist. And my writing, to me, was always visual. — Peter Landesman

We are like some particle in motion always moving and meeting other particle. — Santosh Kalwar

Reading a book is something you do to yourself. — Last Man Standing

I was extremely shy. And I simply didn't know how to go about it. It seemed a lot easier to write than to make films. All I needed was a pencil and a piece of paper, whereas filmmaking was something I had no access to. — Paul Auster

I was fine when it came to cheering up others, not so fine with myself. — Gene Tierney

Beauty feeds us. Anarchy is beauty. We are against the grey people. We want to decorate, like those fantastic Indian lorries which are covered with flowers. Beauty must conquer the lust for order; order is ugliness. — Tom Hodgkinson

Mr Rycroft said nothing. It was so difficult not to say the wrong thing to Captain Wyatt that it was usually safer not to reply at all. — Agatha Christie

I would love to be a fly on the wall watching other directors and actors to see what their process is like. — Chiwetel Ejiofor

I remembered my mother's insistence that I always wear clean underwear because I might get knocked down by a car on the way to or from school and I and the family would be disgraced even beyond the grave, presumably, if my underwear was dirty. And I began to worry, in fact, as the doctor sniffed and prodded, about the state of the shorts I was wearing. This made me want to laugh. But I could not breathe. — James Baldwin

They say the crazies come out at night. I say the crazies come out during election year: Elections have the power to turn once seemingly normal people into certified loonies. — Criss Jami