Tryer Quotes & Sayings

The strange thing is I never thought I'd do films, — Philip Seymour Hoffman

My mistress used to say that you couldn't ever really be naked unless you wanted to be. She said, 'Even if you've taken off every stitch of clothing, you still have your secrets, your history, your true name. It's quite difficult to be really naked. You have to work hard at it. Just getting into a bath isn't being naked, not really. It's just showing skin. And foxes and bears have skin, too, so I shan't be ashamed if they're not. — Catherynne M Valente

I am a songwriter at heart, and I feel like I would, in the future, write songs for other people. I don't think I want to pursue it for myself, for a solo career. — Dean Geyer

The only way to do something interesting is not care if you fail. — Charlie Kaufman

Where there is a man who does not labor because another is compelled to work for him, there slavery is. — Leo Tolstoy

We haven't usually had to face the extreme questions about liberty and order because we're not a nation of extremists. We love freedom and good government both. — David Ignatius

The Devil's minions worked his treacherous plot through the hearts of men, possessing them, ruling them. These hounds of hell ran wild these days through their human hosts, working greater and greater abominations. — Eric J. Martindale

Once when I felt a little bruised by censorship I sent through Herodotus's account of the battle of Salamis fought between the Greeks and Persians in 480 B.C., and since there were place names involved, albeit classical ones, the Navy censors killed the whole story. — John Steinbeck

No religion is higher than humanity — Abdul Sattar Edhi

Popular culture is the new Babylon, into which so much art and intellect now flow. It is our imperial sex theater, supreme temple of the western eye. We live in the age of idols. The pagan past, never dead, flames again in our mystic hierarchies of stardom. — Camille Paglia

We can do without any article of luxury we have never had; but when once obtained, it is not in human natur' to surrender it voluntarily. — Thomas Chandler Haliburton

I am talking about anything that is a provocation - ignore it. When something falls under freedom of expression, you can read it and take a critical distance. — Tariq Ramadan

Our job, you know, in the entertainment profession is to try to illuminate and show people all sides of humanity, and it doesn't just mean that you can only do movies that are only about the good parts of us. You have to be able to eliminate the bad parts. — Kevin Spacey

In spite of the honestest efforts to annihilate my I-ity, or merge it in what the world doubtless considers my better half, I still find myself a self-subsisting and alas! self-seeking me. — Jane Welsh Carlyle

Adlai Stevenson has a genius for saying the right thing, at the right time, to the wrong people. — Joe E. Lewis