Compleats Cookies Quotes

#1. Sometimes I view members of the elite with an almost primal scorn - recently, an acquaintance used the word "confabulate" in a sentence, and I just wanted to scream. But

J.D. Vance

#2. You must put fear out of your mind. Confront it with the belief that the past is over with, that a new life lies ahead.

Edward T. Lowe Jr.

#3. I create fictional narratives, but it's based on literal people.

Danai Gurira

#4. Let nothing be changed and all be different.

Robert Bresson

#5. I was too practical to major in theater. Acting - what was I going to do with acting? There was no future in it.

Laurie Metcalf

#6. The first book I bought with my own money as a teenager was Martin Amis's 'Money.' You know that thing when you read a book and you think, 'I'm going to have to read every word ever written by this man.'

John Niven

#7. The out-of-date returns in due course as the picturesque.

Agatha Christie

#8. A lot of these people were getting to where they didn't need help anymore. You have to start all over again.

Sam Worthington

#9. Only men who are capable of saying Thou [an attitude of deep respect] to one another can truly say we with one another.

Martin Buber

#10. When you say, "I fucked up," the action retains its meaning, its sordid origin, its obscenity, and its poetry. Poetry is quite compatible with obscenity.

Charles Baxter

#11. You just have to do what suits you, and it doesn't matter if you don't look like everybody else. Be you. That's our gift and we've got to celebrate that.

Helena Bonham Carter

#12. That night longer than all my life before it. No scale or measure in this world can ever be held constant. We are always slipping.

David Vann