The Imaginarium Of Doctor Parnassus Anton Quotes & Sayings

Romance novels can be broken down into two broad categories: historical romances, which utilize a wide variety of historical backdrops, and contemporary romances. The distinction is important because the temporal settings have a strong influence on plot lines and the type of fantasy that is found in the books. — Cathie Linz

Freud thought he was bringing the plague to the U.S.A., but the U.S.A. has victoriously resisted the psychoanalytical frost by real deep freezing, by mental and sexual refrigeration. They have countered the black magic of the Unconscious with the white magic of "doing your own thing," air conditioning, sterilization, mental frigidity and the cold media of information. — Jean Baudrillard

I've been an advocate for public education for a long time. It's the way people are able to improve their lives. — Mary Burke

A brotherhood of venerable trees. — William Wordsworth

I used to spend every morning in detention at my old school. — Jake Lloyd

Dry leaves rustled up against the walls and skittered away. It was that time of year when it could be hot or cold from day to day; it was neither summer nor fall. An in-between, liminal time. A border. — Anonymous

Shirley Jackson said that a confused reader is an antagonistic reader, and I live by that. It's okay to start anywhere, and to let yourself write a big sloppy overly-detailed first draft. You just jump in, knowing that the water will be cold at first, but no one is making you swim. — Anne Lamott

Our tolerance is part of what makes Britain Britain. So conform to it, or don't come here. — Tony Blair

There is a technical, literary term for those who mistake the opinions and beliefs of characters in a novel for those of the author. The term is 'idiot'. — Larry Niven

People who love science fiction really do love sex. — Susie Bright

You have to write a lot of scripts to get any scripts that are worth making. — Judd Apatow

Climate Change led to the Vikings dominating Europe for several hundred years. — Morgan Griffith

No one should be adored, it's fundamentally immoral. — Kate Millett

Workplace relations is about getting the best out of people. An argument which says that the only way we can compete with other nations in the world is engaging in a race to the bottom in terms of pay rates, penalty rates, protections on rosters, getting rid of family friendly provisions - that is not Australia's future. — Bill Shorten