Verthash Quotes & Sayings

All the sounds on 'Trapped in the Closet' - the knockin' on the door, when I grab the keys, when I walk down the stairs, the car horns - we sampled all of those things around my house. — R. Kelly

I like to take people you wouldn't really think people would write novels about: an aqueduct engineer, a code-breaker, a hedge-fund manager. It's in those sorts of lives that I find more fascination than in a CIA operative or a Marine or something like that. — Robert Harris

A lot of directors straight out of film school are very technically minded, but they don't have an understanding of actors or how to talk to them. — Peter Dinklage

So, in a way I was hedging and saying that if the Olympic stuff doesn't work out at least I can be a lawyer. — Frank Shorter

When somebody wants to work and believes in something, it doesn't matter if you're well known or rich or whatever it is. — Manolo Blahnik

The cable was still sending sharp sparks into the air. He could think of nothing in life that he especially desired, but those purple sparks
those wildly-blooming flowers of fire
he would trade his life for the chance to hold them in his hands."
-from "The Life of a Stupid Man — Ryunosuke Akutagawa

Lies kill love, it's been said. Well, what about frankness, then. — Abel Hermant

I never leave the writer behind, because you rewrite the movie in post, or at least I do. I always do, and I feel like anybody who doesn't at least explore that possibility is short-changing themselves. Editing is the most fun and most exciting part of the process. — Steven Soderbergh

Destroying your enemies - even destroying a planet - was understandable. But this wasn't simple destruction. It was annihilation; obliteration. The very fabric of the Force had been shredded. Anyone capable of turning an entire planet into a nihilistic abomination had to be completely mad. — Drew Karpyshyn

Patience is of two kinds: patience over what pains you, and patience against what you
covet. — Hazrat Ali Ibn Abu-Talib

The sun exactly at noon is exactly [beginning to] go down. And a creature when he is born is exactly [beginning to] die. — Hu Shih

We can't live other people's lives for them. Even if we love them. — Kristin Hannah

The sun illuminates only the eye of the man, but shines into the eye and the heart of the child. — Ralph Waldo Emerson