Webzine Since 1996 Quotes & Sayings

I always have the impression that I write the same book. — Patrick Modiano

Of course, you always think about how it will be read. I always aim for a reading in one sitting. — Joan Didion

He was part of the infinite. The tree and the rock and the water. The rising of the sun and the running of the deer. — Kate Atkinson

Of course you always had that detached quality as if you were playing a game without much concern over whether you won or lost, and now that you've lost the game, not lost but just quit playing, you have that rare sort of charm that usually only happens in very old or hopelessly sick people, the charm of the defeated. — Tennessee Williams

I'm a car nut. My father was a parts manager at a Chevrolet dealership. — John Lasseter

A visionary thrives in all circumstances. — Abraham Hicks

In New Zealand we had this colossal squid, which was discovered just off the shores of New Zealand, between New Zealand and Antarctica back in 2003. It's the biggest squid ever found, and I know that there's things living down in the depths of the ocean that do explain the Kraken - you know, these giant things that people saw back in the day, that could take ships down - and so I know that there's stuff out there, and I like the idea that we haven't solved everything yet. — Rhys Darby

If I'm not mistaken, I believe it was written beforehand. And it just happened in rehearsals Basically giving each person their vocal-line and I ended up getting that line! I'm so grateful I did because it was really special to sing that and you feel something when you sing it it's a very distinct piece that fits perfectly in the production. — Kendra Kassebaum

Science is unpoetic only to minds jaundiced with sentiment and romanticism ... the great masters of the past boasted all they could of it and found it magical. — Ezra Pound

We are not compelled in naturalism, or even in materialism, to ignore immaterial things; the point is that any immaterial things which are recognized shall be regarded as names, aspects, functions, or concomitant products of those physical things among which action goes on. — George Santayana

To be haunted by past failures or satisfied with past successes is to arrest forward motion. — Conrad Hilton

My heroes have always been the hardworking and unflappable. Those who light a candle rather than curse the darkness. — Matthew Gray Gubler

Getting to places like Bangkok or Singapore was a hell of a sweat. But when you got there it was the back of beyond. It was just a series of small tin sheds. — David Attenborough

Though perseverance does not come from our power, yet it comes from within our power. — Saint Francis De Sales