Thesierradiaries Quotes & Sayings

Making a big Hollywood film that really affects people is as hard as making a small movie on a credit card. — Cameron Crowe

Love. Who knows about another's love? The more you love the more you know the burnt out loss of love, the more you heed the silence of unknowing in the face of another's spiritual bondage. — Anne Rice

I wanted to shake the stuffing out of him; I wanted to hug him; I wanted to die. — Alan Bradley

Poetry invades loneliness in a way that nothing else can. I thought that if I changed that people, beautiful people, arrogant people, narcissists, intellectuals, readers, teachers, spiritual gurus would come into my life but they did not. I am still rowing my boat ashore. It still feels like Hiroshima out there. — Abigail George

I don't think there's enough breadth to the stories told about African-Americans. — Geoffrey S. Fletcher

Things will come up to challenge you, to make you doubt yourself, constantly. You have to have that inner strength, that resolve. Faith. You have to trust it. Or you will keep falling back into old patterns, giving into fears, anxiety, what other people think. — Stacie Hammond

It's okay to be eccentric if you're rich; otherwise you're just crazy. — Yvon Chouinard

Let us watch against pride in every shape - pride of intellect, pride of wealth, pride of our own goodness. Nothing is so likely to keep a person out of heaven, and prevent them from seeing Christ, as pride. So long as we think we are something we shall never be saved. Let us pray for and cultivate humility; let us seek to know ourselves correctly, and to find out our place in the sight of a holy God. — J.C. Ryle

That man is intellectually of the mass who, in face of any problem, is satisfied with thinking the first thing he finds in his head. On the contrary, the excellent man is he who contemns what he finds in his mind without previous effort, and only accepts as worthy of him what is still far above him and what requires a further effort in order to be reached. — Ortega Y Gasset

There must be snakes," George said. "Isn't this place everything a snake could want? Cool, made of stone, lots of holes to slither in and out of, lots of mice to eat ... Why am I still talking? Simon, make me stop talking ... — Cassandra Clare

The place looks like where David Lynch would meet Beaver Cleaver's mom for secret afternoons of bondage and milkshakes. — Richard Kadrey

Countries keep on building higher and higher buildings, instead of building higher and higher men! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

The love scenes that worked, regardless of the director, were the ones where the actors weren't fearful. When somebody was fearful, you could see it right away. It takes you out of the story, and that's to be avoided at all costs. — Jennifer Beals

UNICEF is doing amazing things here. They're helping these groups of kids to be mine aware, and using drama and workshops to teach children in all of the schools in the area to be aware of mines and what to do if they find one, and if somebody's hurt, not to rush in - all of the essential things that kids need to know. — Ewan McGregor

An audience shouldn't listen with complacency. — Peter Maxwell Davies