Broken Hourglass Quotes

#1. This teaching job did not pay a lot of money, because, let's face it, nobody gives a flying fuck about education, but it was a temporary position.

Daniel Handler

#2. Just be indipendent of the external world, so you don't have to fear for what's in it.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

#3. The creation of conditions by which an entire people who have lived in exploitation and illiteracy gains access to the highest levels of knowledge and creativity is one of the most beautiful achievements of a revolution.

Roberto Fernandez Retamar

#4. The thing that I'm just scared to death of is that someday I'm going to wake up and bore somebody with a film.

Steven Spielberg

#5. There's nothing better than being in a film that translates to audiences and makes people think and feel good and walk away with great revelations in their own life of some kind. But when the process and the experience and the fun of that matches, it's a good feeling.

Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

#6. If you don't like your teeth; keep your mouth shut.

Lois Greiman

#7. Family faces are magic mirrors...we see the past, present, and future.

Gail Lumet Buckley

#8. Yes. You couldn't make anyone else happy. He tried to tell himself that, and drink through the buzzing little voice saying that, for a few short weeks, he actually had made someone else happy. And Owen had made him happy too.

Amy Lane

#9. We do not sit as a superlegislature to weigh the wisdom of legislation.

William O. Douglas

#10. So much of our mythology around money centers on the illusion that if we had 'more,' we would be more comfortable and more able to access our creativity. But creativity and prosperity are spiritual matters, not fiscal ones.

Julia Cameron

#11. I used to object to being called an Indian writer, and would always say I was a writer who happened to be an Indian, and who happened to write about Indians.

James Welch

#12. A curiosity prompt heightens the senses and hones compositional ability ...

Robert Genn

#13. Since I have the obligation to take care of the needs of my family, I have decided to use a talent which, I believe, has been given to me. I am a poet ... Phew! You know, reader, what I and all sensible people think about that.

Multatuli

#14. I've spent a large portion of the last 40 years hunting Dragons because of you. Be flattered, disturbed ... Whatever floats your boat.
Tiberius of Triad
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Kim Cormack

#15. It's all a sea, I swim out of its in the afternoons.

Jack Kerouac