Tillionairs Quotes & Sayings

Literature in the written sense represents the triumph of language over writing: the subversion of writing for purposes that have little or nothing to do with social and economic control. — Robert Bringhurst

The busier we are the more leisure we have. — William Hazlitt

In a text, there's this voice that speaks to you from a position of power, that doesn't communicate that it's doing that at all and tries to hide its power. We were trying to be overt about what power was happening, and speak in a way that wasn't so fucking sure of itself. If it was sure of itself it was in the form of a performance. — Anonymous

A spectre is haunting Western academia ( ... ), the spectre of the Cartesian subject. — Slavoj Zizek

No boyfriend, just misery. Well, misery is good for the figure. And only misery can teach you what happiness is. — Natalie Meg Evans

'Cliffhanger' got me in the best shape of my life, working at 10,000 feet up in the mountains. And everybody was great. I lived in Italy for seven months doing that movie. It was a great vacation. — Michael Rooker

You learn a lot about a person when you work together. — Alexis Denisof

Pretty much everyday, there's a moment where I'm having to pinch myself and think, 'When did this happen to my life?' — Carly Rae Jepsen

I saw Hamlet Prince of Denmark played; but now the old plays begin to disgust this refined age. — John Evelyn

Now everybody knows about this thing that's my secret. It was my thing, the music I turned to when I was alone and needed it. It's what helps me get through these times. It's just between me and music, and now it's been shared with the world. — Devendra Banhart

Imagine never leaving North Idaho again. He's got his coffee and he's got his ritual, his work around the cabin, and with the new satellite dish Lydia buys him for his birthday, he's got nine hundred channels and he's got Netflix, — Jess Walter

Wil ate without enthusiasm. His bacon tasted like nothing. Like a dead animal, fried. His eggs, aborted chickens. — Max Barry

When it comes to the fundamental issues that humanity faces, I think that solutions involve shifting consciousness towards cooperation. — Jeremy Gilley

I watch and listen to movies today and am shocked by the way actors deliver their lines. Everybody mumbles now and I don't understand why. — Maureen O'Hara

all my ancestors were from the South and some even fought and died for the losing side. Perhaps that's why I was long resigned to my failure to publish. — Katherine Paterson