Tablou Quotes & Sayings

Fate is like a secret friend that helps push you on into life. — Patti Smith

Trying relentlessly to make you love me, but I don't want the love - I quite prefer the quest for it. The challenge. I am always disappointed with someone who loves me - how perfect can he be if he can't see through me? — Carrie Fisher

A lot of blues guitarists play with only three fingers, and they can't figure out certain runs that require the use of their little fingers. Classical training is good for that. — Ritchie Blackmore

I once got a little camera to use for details of architecture and so forth but the photo was always so different from the perspective the eye gives, I gave it up. — Edward Hopper

Our minds have a tendency to wander. To duck and feint and keep us at a slight remove from the moment at hand. — Dani Shapiro

Destroyers did not have chaplains because they were too small. — Barney Ross

It's either not good enough and dies altogether, or it develops. — Ninette De Valois

Everything belonged to him. It made me hold my breath in expectation of hearing the wilderness burst into prodigious peal of laughter that would shake the fixed stars in their places. — Joseph Conrad

I wondered whether mad people would be better off if their memories could be neatened up, or taken off the shelves on which they were stored and replaced with nicer ones, and if they'd be the same person then, or completely different ones, and whether dreams were like a vandal rampaging through a library of memories, tearing out random pages and turning them into paper boats ... — Michelle Cooper

All that you can imagine you already know — Stephen Spender

This perhaps was what lay at the root of the hysteria surrounding what came to be known as the Gold Rush: Men desiring a feeling of fortune; the unlucky masses hoping to skin or borrow the luck of others, or the luck of a destination. A seductive notion, and one I thought to be wary of. To me, luck was something you either earned or invented through strength of character. You had to come by it honestly; you could not trick or bluff your way into it. — Patrick DeWitt

I've ended up spending more time in front of a camera than on stage, but the stage is where I come from. — David Wenham

To be a mentor for up-and-coming artists is right up my alley. — Jessica Simpson

He looked very old. He looked, James thought, getting his head now against the Lighthouse, now against the waste of waters running away into the open, like some old stone lying on the sand; he looked as if he had become physically what was always at the back of both of their minds - that loneliness which was for both of them the truth about things. — Virginia Woolf