Uptilts Quotes & Sayings

The muse whispers to you when she chooses, and you can't tell her to come back later, because you quickly learn in this business that she might not come back at all. — Terry Brooks

My guiding star always is, Get hold of portable property. — Charles Dickens

You know, I think that people give you back what you gave them. I try to be ... as I am. — Pierfrancesco Favino

My point is, no one can stop the Internet. No one can stop that march. It doesn't mean that it's going to be smooth, though. — Michio Kaku

In my teens, I developed a passionate idolatry for a teacher of English literature. I wanted to do something that he would approve of more, so I thought I should be some sort of a scholar. — Trevor Nunn

The car drives through, stops while the man closes and fastens the prickly gate behind it. The bell shuts off; the stillness is deafening by contrast. The car goes on until the outline of a house suddenly uptilts the searching headlight-beams, log-built, sprawling, resembling a hunting-lodge. But there's no friendliness to it. There is something ominous and forbidding about its look, so dark, so forgotten, so secretive-looking. The kind of a house that has a maw to swallow with - a one-way house, that you feel will never disgorge any living thing that enters it. Leprous in the moonlight festering on its roof. And the two round sworls of light played by the heads of the car against its side, intersecting, form a pear-shaped oval that resembles a gleaming skull. ("Jane Brown's Body") — Cornell Woolrich

It's hard to have anything isn't it? Rare to get it, hard to keep it. This is a damn slippery planet. — Thomas Harris

I don't snack all the time, but I do sometimes drink l more than I should. — Gerard Depardieu

You can't be protein deficient without being calorie deficient because even if you take the foods that have the least amount of protein in them, let's say potatoes, for example, or rice at 8 or 9%. That's the figure we more or less need. — T. Colin Campbell