Wipo Madrid Quotes & Sayings

Writing as writing. Writing as rioting. Writing as righting.
On the best days, all three. — Teju Cole

We are personalities in the making, limited, and grappling with things too high for us. Obviously we, at very best, will make many mistakes, but these mistakes need not be sins. — E. Stanley Jones

The director's job is to know what emotional statement he wants a character to convey in his scene or his line, and to exercise taste and judgment in helping the actor give his best possible performance. — Stanley Kubrick

You say one more thing that sounds like it's ripped from the pages of a really bad gothic romance and I'm out of here, are we clear? - Valkyrie Cain — Derek Landy

When I like a musician I want to see a picture or a video of them. — Erika M. Anderson

She is dangerous because I cannot control her. — Kristen Callihan

It might work in the short term, but it's not going to keep the people who hop from congregation to congregation. Church is about one's relationship with God and one's relationship with people. The gimmick may attract you for the moment, but it's the substance that will hold you there. — J. Gordon Melton

Never turn your back on the seventh son of the Supreme Overlord of the Universe ... unless you want a bucket of water thrown on your head. — Wendy Mass

Lincoln jibed that a general INVADED Canada without resistance and out-vaded it without pursuit. — Harold Holzer

My mother gave me singing lessons; that was totally painful, because I couldn't do what she wanted to hear. She used to say: there's more there, there's more voice but I just didn't want to give it to her. — Linda Lavin

When I was a kid, like four or five years old, I was obsessed with the 'Batman' TV show in the '60s. And I took it totally seriously. At that age, I took it completely seriously. I didn't get the fact that it was kind of played for laughs. I didn't understand why my mom was rolling her eyes or chuckling. — Lee Bermejo

Darnell had received what is called a sound commercial education, and would therefore have found very great difficulty in putting into articulate speech any thought that was worth thinking; — Arthur Machen