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Were a man to consult only his reason, who would marry? For myself, I wouldn't marry, for fear of having a son who resembled me.
Other people have worked with big studios and maintained control over their movies. I see no reason why it wouldn't work for me.
Life is getting better, but that won't stop a war if politicians and business people decide it's to their advantage to have one.
Twenty years of romance makes a woman look like a ruin; but twenty years of marriage makes her something like a public building.
Know thyself' was written over the portal of the antique world. Over the portal of the new world, 'Be thyself' shall be written.
If there is anything more annoying in the world than having people talk about you, it is certainly having no one talk about you.
What is abnormal in Life stands in normal relations to Art. It is the only thing in Life that stands in normal relations to Art.
You know we poor artists have to show ourselves in society from time to time, just to remind the public that we are not savages.
And once, or twice, to throw the dice is a gentlemanly game, But he does not win who plays with Sin in the secret house of shame
Just to let you know that the buffet car will be closing for stocktaking in five minutes. The next station stop is Chesterfield.
The least thing upset him on the links. He missed short putts because of the uproar of the butterflies in the adjoining meadows.
When it comes to letting the world in on the secrets of his heart, he has about as much shrinking reticence as a steam calliope.
If it looks like a hallway, feels like a hallway, and acts like a hallway—is it important to figure out that it isn’t a hallway?
Bang! Bang! Bang! Sorry Mr. Yipes, sir, she won't budge!' Put your back into it, man, give it all you've got!' Bang! Bang! Bang!
She was a wicked thing sometimes. All full of want. As if the shape of the world depended on her mood. As if she were important.
I look at the Marvel movies and the DC movies and various creators' creations, and I think, you know, that's really pretty cool.
We like to think that the fate of the Earth and the fate of human worlds are the same thing, but we're not as important as that.
Drafting is like painting the Golden Gate Bridge.The closer you get to the end, the more you start to worry about the beginning.
What 'Flashpoint' does is examine the inherent inconsistencies in Shade's past and attempt to explain it and give it some logic.
The important thing is to pull yourself up by your own hair to turn yourself inside out and see the whole world with fresh eyes.
When men find they must inevitably perish, they willingly resolve to die with their comrades and with their arms in their hands.
Let no one weep for me, or celebrate my funeral with mourning; for I still live, as I pass to and fro through the mouths of men.
I used to get a haircut every Saturday so I would never miss any of the comic books. I had practically no hair when I was a kid!
You're kidding. I thought all geniuses read Latin. Isn't that the international language for smart people?"-Shane (Glass Houses)
Nobody's cut out for this town," Shane said. "Nobody sane anyway." "Says the kid who came back." "Yeah, kind of proves my point.
He sounded harassed more than anything else, like mass home invasion was just something standing between him and morning coffee.
Ghost stories and Sherlock Holmes mysteries were great. And I had a major soft spot for those 'Choose Your Own Adventure' books.
I've always been interested in exploration and the history of exploring the world, but it seems like we've found everything now.
What are the best things and the worst things in your life, and when are you going to get around to whispering or shouting them?
Self-consciousness is the enemy of all art, be it acting, writing, painting, or living itself, which is the greatest art of all.
I enjoy co-directing or even being there just for support because you get to see your script come to aural life in front of you.
Life is not about negative circumstances that happen to you, it's about what you do with the golden opportunities hidden within!
The truth is that the universe has been answering you all of your life, but you cannot receive the answers unless you are awake.
I was trying to change things on the outside and you can't. You've got to feel it on the inside and everything else will change.
You are not here to try to get the world to be just as you want it. You are here to create the world around you that you choose.
Your current thoughts are creating your future life. What you think about the most or focus on the most will appear as your life
Ever since the world began, it has been the belief of mankind that desolate places are the special haunt of supernatural beings.
Initially, there were a lot of fears that Ebola could mutate to become the airborne Andromeda strain that would wipe us all out.
There can hardly, I believe, be imagined a more desirable pleasure than that of praise unmixed with any possibility of flattery.
William Dalrymple called me a war junkie in his silly book. No, I don't have a desire for it. I'm appalled and infuriated by it.
You fall into a black hole, and you are irretrievably gone from the universe. That finality has made it irresistible to writers.
The Good was not a form of reality. It was reality itself, ever-changing, ultimately unknowable in any kind of fixed, rigid way.
Encourage your trillions of faithful little cells through joy, happiness and confidence. Thank them, talk to them, sing to them.
The truth is I'm not really interested in travel writing as it's generally conceived, and even less so in female travel writing.
If there was an abundance of misery in the world, there was also sufficient joy, yes - as long as one knew where to look for it.
Atheism was natural enough, but heresy seemed strange. For, surely, if one could believe anything, one could believe everything.
Being president of too many well-meaning organizations put my father into an early grave. The lesson in this was not lost on me.
Somebody informed me recently that the key to every art, from writing to gardening to sculpture, is creativity. I beg to differ.
My advice is don't keep asking yourself if you can do something. Just get out there and do it. You can really surprise yourself.
As surely as Water will wet us, as surely as Fire will burn, The Gods of the Copybook Headings with terror and slaughter return!