Traventia Quotes & Sayings

You have to understand the tone of the movie, because if it's supposed to be funny, it can be funny violent like the Home Alone stuff, but you have to really understand the tone of what you're doing and make the action work for that and for the character. — David R. Ellis

Growing up is made up of a million small moments in time, and one of the most painful is the moment you're severed from the whole, when you realize that your parent is complicated and fallible and human. — Vikki Wakefield

While appropriation art is critical to art, it's an ambiguous art form in the world of the Supreme Court. — Lawrence Lessig

I often give this metaphor where I say that writing short fiction is like surfing, while writing a novel is like navigating with your car. So when you navigate with your car, you want to get somewhere. When you surf, you don't want to get somewhere, you just don't want to fall off your board. — Etgar Keret

The girl had taken a few restless turns to and fro - closely watched meanwhile by her hidden observer - when the heavy bell of St. Paul's tolled for the death of another day. Midnight had come upon the crowded city. The palace, the night-cellar,* the jail, the madhouse: the chambers of birth and death, of health and sickness, the rigid face of the corpse and the calm sleep of the child: midnight was upon them all. — Charles Dickens

A sneeze can never be to far away — Benny Bellamacina

I Don't Need the nicotene patch, Penny - I smoke cigarettes. — Emma Thompson

Experiences are as distinct from services as services are from goods. — B. Joseph Pine II

I wish you would recollect that Painting and Punctuality mix like Oil and Vinegar, and that Genius and regularity are utter Enemies and must be to the end of time. — Thomas Gainsborough

The artist is a man who finds that the form or shape of things externally corresponds, in some strange way, to the movements of his mental and emotional life. — Graham Collier

A habit cannot be eradicated - it must, instead, be replaced. — Charles Duhigg

It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare. — Mark Twain

Methinks I lied all winter, when I swore
My love was infinite, if spring makes it more. — John Donne