Woodrell Author Quotes & Sayings

My curse on plays
That have to be set up in fifty ways,
On the day's war with every knave and dolt,
Theater business, management of men. — William Butler Yeats

They're a redefinition of boredom ... the most important thing you need to know about an awards show is where is the nearest smoking opportunity. — Stephen Daldry

And I felt fear. Fear of that bleak horizon, fear of that destiny. I felt my soul shriveling, I felt it retreating, and I was frightened by the thought that it could not escape its encirclement. — Milan Kundera

I'm not a walking extra in a Chekhov play; I'm no Slavic gloom or Irish gloom. — Orson Welles

We're looking for a guy that can step it up. — Mike Butcher

I played football all my life throughout high school and ran track. — Matt Cohen

You are better off being homeless than being me. — Britney Spears

We must be guided by faith. If we are guided by fear we lock ourselves and our expansion. — Harbhajan Singh Yogi

Novels should be judged rigorously. Either a book works or it doesn't. The fact that something is true in the real world should not lend authority to it in fiction. — Akhil Sharma

His Majesty, may he live forever and prosper greatly ...
His Majesty, may sun finches warble sweet melodies in his ear ...
His Majesty, may orchids bloom in the wake of his passing ...
His Majesty, may minstrels compose epics at the sound of his glorious name ...
His Majesty, may his magnificent sword shatter the breasts of his enemies ... — Rae Carson

Mind your till, and till your mind. — Charles Spurgeon

Put no limit to your thinking or you can never go far and never find the truth! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

In the blood of the martyrs to intolerance are the seeds of unbelief — Walter Lippmann

Getting married is very much like going to a restaurant with friends. You order what you want then when you see what the other person has, you wish you had ordered that. — Michel De Montaigne