Aldwych Notebooks Quotes

#1. My purpose is to acknowledge the wonder of being part of Creation. Though I myself don't create anything, I make from what has been created.

Joel-Peter Witkin

#2. There's something uncontaminated about her, and I don't even mean sexually or whatever. I mean the way she is, at her core. Like when you wake up and the world has been blanketed by snow overnight, and not a single footstep or tire track has spoiled the untouched perfection of it.

Tammara Webber

#3. All of the people who work in the kitchen with me go out into the forests and on to the beach. It's a part of their job. If you work with me you will often be starting your day in the forest or on the shore because I believe foraging will shape you as a chef.

Rene Redzepi

#4. In all the time that people have known me, has anyone ever heard me talk about the importance of rushing records or finishing with the most touchdowns? So if that's never been important to me, then why would that be a motivation to keep playing?

Barry Sanders

#5. Those men think I'm purely decorative, and they're fools for not knowing better.

Zelda Fitzgerald

#6. Whoever tells the best story wins.

John Quincy Adams

#7. When your lover begins to talk about "offending" you, he's not your lover anymore.

Stephen King

#8. I'm young but I'm not stupid.

Abby Elliott

#9. There is no place people can hide from me.

Terry McAuliffe

#10. In the popular image, a problem-solving leader is a solitary genius, but the true leader prefers to produce a success.

Gerald M. Weinberg

#11. I am a house gutted by fire where only the guilty sometimes sleep before the punishment that devours them hounds them out in the open.

Rainer Maria Rilke

#12. It was more important to me to understand what its like to be this Jewish kid who felt he was so different at such a young age. I feel the story is about a kid who came to hate through love, so I felt I had to learn why he loved this thing so much that he also apparently hated it.

Ryan Gosling