Sursautant Quotes & Sayings

Those who, either from their own engagements and hurry of business, or from indolence, or from conceit and vanity, have neglected looking out of themselves, as far as my experience and observation reach, have from that time not only ceased to advance, and improve in their performances, but have gone backward. They may be compared to men who have lived upon their principal, till they are reduced to beggary, and left without resources. — Joshua Reynolds

People talk about the plots and what happened, and they see your tricks a mile away. — Terence Winter

These two were busy explaining to the harassed man that the phrase "too much Mozart" was, given any reasonable definition of those three words, an inherently self-contradictory expression, and that any sentence which contained such a phrase would be thereby rendered meaningless and could not, consequently, be advanced as part of an argument in favor of any given program-scheduling strategy. — Douglas Adams

Playing the game was the easy part. The real work was in the preparation. — Alex Rodriguez

He who exerts his mind to the utmost knows his nature — Mencius

I want to do some things before I have children, because when I have children it's not going to happen. I've done bungee jumping, I've done the running with the bulls, I guess sky diving is the last thing on my list. — Heather Mitts

But there's a fact about someday that you can't possibly understand until it has settled upon you. Someday was doomed the moment you wished it into existence. You've already ruined it. By imagining it even once, you've created an expectation someday cannot possibly live up to. — Tish Cohen

Our knowledge advances not when we have the best theory, or the best data, or the best lab, but when we have really good problems — Jay Rosen

What I had learned from our encounter was invaluable. Never try to look like your character, leave some room for the director's imagination. Turn yourself into a blank canvas ready to be painted on. Give him the pleasure of discovering you rather than finding you. — Shohreh Aghdashloo

Tradition and conscience are the two wings given to the human soul to reach the truth. — Giuseppe Mazzini

Look outside the window. Do you see the fence outside the palace? Do you see any guards? This is a country where everyone is safe. — Alexander Lukashenko

I have to tell everyone that when I finish a film and it goes out and is released, I never look at my films again. I don't like looking back. I don't even like talking about 'em! So I'm really digging back in my memory because I don't like to sit and look at my films again. — Jim Jarmusch

No. You hurt people because you didn't have any idea what love really was. You were trying to understand it in the only way you knew how. It's horrible, yes. But it's forgivable. I forgive you. I forgive a thousand worse things you may have done. I can forgive anything. — Laurelin Paige