Figwood Pocket Quotes

#1. How hard it is to make your thoughts look anything but imbecile fools when you paint them with ink on paper.

Olive Schreiner

#2. It was a husk, no longer truly their mother - more like their mother's most treasured possession, which had been given to them as a parting gift.

Michel Faber

#3. It's great for me to hear those different reactions because when I travel with a movie like this [World of Tommorow], it's very similar. You'll hear a line in one city get a big laugh, and then in another city, the same line kind of gets a gasp, and that's wonderful.

Don Hertzfeldt

#4. None are so seldom found alone, and are so soon tired of their own company, as those coxcombs who are on the best terms with themselves.

Charles Caleb Colton

#5. And Lot's wife, of course, was told not to look back where all those people and their homes had been. But she did look back, and I love her for that, because it was so human. So she was turned into a pillar of salt. So it goes.

Kurt Vonnegut

#6. You're making me rethink my stance against cold-blooded homicide.

Gena Showalter

#7. I think we all have a little dark side we keep under wraps.

Fred Savage

#8. That it may be the only thing the darkness makes clearer: who really matters is whoever you're most desperate to see.

Garth Risk Hallberg

#9. I found a nanny/child care position in Beverly Hills taking care of a 3-year-old and a 17-year-old. They had a large, wealthy house. I learned that I liked the way rich people lived. I learned that they were not smarter than me.

Mark Burnett

#10. The real force of Silicon Valley is the mentality, the spirit. There's no reason at all that can't be replicated in Paris.

Xavier Niel

#11. We now have contestants who will not let anything get in their way of victory. Some contestants have thrown each other under the bus this season.

Ryan Seacrest

#12. It's weird to be recognised anywhere. The cost of living your dream, acting, is being recognised.

Colin Morgan

#13. They were fed flaky pastries filled with beef and spices, a peppery stew over couscous, breads stuffed with honey and almonds.

Meljean Brook