Callowhill Street Quotes

#1. In our town there was a Gestapo officer who loved to play chess. After the occupation began, he found out that my father was the chess master of the region, and so he had him to his house every night.

Bruno Schulz

#2. At university - when I was supposed to be studying biochemistry - I had tried to write a children's book about a boy and a wolf cub, and there was a paragraph in that which was from the wolf's point of view.

Michelle Paver

#3. A big part of filmmaking is gathering a group of people you can work with.

Lenny Abrahamson

#4. Do you remember what you said to me once? That you could help me only by loving me? Well-you did love me for a moment; and it helped me. It has always helped me.

Edith Wharton

#5. Passing beauties are only the fugitive reflections of the eternal. All beauty alters and all life melts away; in short, everything passes with marvelous rapidity; beautiful Helen of Troy has become a toothless skull, then a handful of dust, then nothing.

Eliphas Levi

#6. God's love does not protect us from suffering. God's love protects us in the midst of suffering.

Hans Kung

#7. One problem with the way the educational system is set up is that it only recognizes a certain type of intelligence, and it's incredibly restrictive - very, very restrictive. There's so many types of intelligence, and people who would be at their best outside of that structure get lost.

Bruce Springsteen

#8. It is the face of a girl who has seen the world, who realizes that it hates her, and who hates it in return.

Lauren DeStefano

#9. And anyway, it's only movies. to stop me I think they'll ahve to shoot me in the head.

Ridley Scott

#10. Sons of suicides seldom do well.

Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

#11. The words we speak are important, powerful, and since names are spoken every day, directed at specific individuals, people often become what they are called. I like to know who I'm dealing with.

Gena Showalter

#12. He'd had to fold his long legs into his desk. His boots had seen better days, and his jeans unraveled in a curiously irresistible way at the bottom. He didn't look like anyone I'd ever seen before. He reminded me of an actor in an old Western - Rock Hudson in Giant - all dark intensity.

Laura Anderson Kurk