Anoraks Anonymous Quotes

#1. It's always been in between the things I thought I was doing that the real work has happened.

William Kentridge

#2. Choosing safety is a choice of life over career.

Warren Farrell

#3. There is a spell in mediaeval Art which has had power to bewitch some people into trying, or wishing to try, or fancying that they wish to try or making believe to fancy that they wish to try, to bring back the Middle Ages.

Goldwin Smith

#4. You can't turn up at college in stilettos and say you're gonna be a filmmaker. In the college, they were teaching me avant-garde filmmaking, where I had to make films that were, like, an hour long about nothing. I just refused to do it.

M.I.A.

#5. Pursue whatever it is that you want to do with your life. It is the only secret to happiness that I know except for maybe true love, that and maybe having the amazing health insurance plan that our congressmen have.

Lewis Black

#6. And I think my sexuality was heavily repressed by the church, by the, you know, the design of the mortal sins.

Thomas Keneally

#7. You need to wear less clothing, lass.

Terry Spear

#8. Fear is the Fatal killer of Desire.

Zig Ziglar

#9. I went to school on Senior Skip Day.

Derek Jeter

#10. And still, what a risk he'd taken. The woman was like an amateur car bomb: you never knew when she would explode or who she would take down with her when she did.

Margaret Atwood

#11. When you go to war, it's important for everybody to know that they're going to come home in one way or other.

Elliot Ackerman

#12. I'm a fiend for costume jewellery and have countless pairs of rhinestone or diamante earrings, which are so flattering when they catch the light. I love the designers Alexis Bittar and Kenneth Jay Lane, and I always go to jewellers Butler & Wilson.

Joan Collins

#13. Injury is the thing every exhausting piece of strategy and every single weapon is designed to bring into being: it is not something inadvertently produced on the way to producing something else but is the relentless object of all military activity.

Elaine Scarry