Wladyslaw Tatarkiewicz Quotes & Sayings

When you really study espionage movies, or spy movies, the beginnings are really set up to have, like, an amazing bit of action, but at the moment you're watching it, you have no idea why or what it's about. — John Lasseter

The largest part of what we call 'personality' is determined by how we've opted to defend ourselves against anxiety and sadness. — Alain De Botton

Eighty-five per cent of what goes on in a novelist's head is none of his business, — Stephen King

So with the man who has daily inured himself to habits of concentrated attention, energetic volition, and self-denial in unnecessary things. He will stand like a tower when everything rocks around him, and when his softer fellow-mortals are winnowed like chaff in the blast. — William James

I've never ever read a script. I really must read Macbeth, because I was in it once. I got a lot of laughs in that, I can tell you. — Tom Baker

No one should fear to undertake any task in the name of our Saviour, if it is just and if the intention is purely for His holy service. — Christopher Columbus

Some people, when they're called before the police, like nothing better than to spill everything, fact and fiction alike, hoping to create a good impression. — Kobo Abe

One writes a poem when one is so taken up by an emotional concept that one is unable to remain silent. — Stephen Dobyns

Of the autistically interior, dreaming, reading, erotic, self-sufficient child in Balthus' painting we have practically no image at all. Balthus' children are not being driven to succeed where their parents failed, or to be popular, adjusted, or a somebody. — Guy Davenport

Lori, did you and Adam have a fight? I mean, another fight? A humdinger?"
I snorted. "No, I'm sobbing in Frances's lap because she will marry our father someday and bring back the vegi/soy mayonnaise."
"What's the matter with vegi/soy mayonnaise?" Frances asked.
McGillicuddy wrinkled his nose at the memory. — Jennifer Echols

Life is full of choices, if you have the guts to go for it. That's why I get immediately bored with anyone's complaining about how boring their life is, or how bad their town is. Fucking leave and go somewhere else. Or don't. — Henry Rollins