Finding Fanny Quotes

#1. I grew up with two different parakeets - one that lived for five years, and one that lived for 13 years - so I always had a bit of an attraction to birds and it's an oddly good fit to be in a movie about birdwatchers.

Jim Parsons

#2. Write 1000 words a day. That's only about four pages, but force yourself to do it. Put your finger down your throat and throw up. That's what writing's all about.

Ray Bradbury

#3. There are secrets that ravage you, others that make you stronger.

Christa Wolf

#4. Remember the enemy of all painting is gray: a painting will almost always appear grayer than it is, on account of its oblique position under the light.

Eugene Delacroix

#5. I'm never gonna die, never heard of death, energy can never be destroyed only the flesh.

Nas

#6. You will think me rhapsodizing; but when I am out of doors, especially when I am sitting out of doors, I am very apt to get into this sort of wondering strain. One cannot fix one's eyes on the commonest natural production without finding food for a rambling fancy.

Jane Austen

#7. The gold standard sooner or later will return with the force and inevitability of natural law, for it is the money of freedom and honesty.

Hans F. Sennholz

#8. We listen to the unspoken, we gaze upon the unseen. Kakuzo Okakura, The Book of Tea

Douglas Preston

#9. Man was, therefore, still a prisoner on his own planet. It was much fairer, but a much smaller, planet than it had been a century before. When the Overlords abolished war and hunger and disease, they had also abolished adventure.

Arthur C. Clarke

#10. do we really have reason to believe that an objective reality exists?

Stephen Hawking

#11. If an artist and a scientist have a common point, it is probably in the need for some kind of imaginative thinking to interpret the material they have.

Catherine Yass

#12. Snow fell; I smoked and read John.

Why do pain and death make holy?

Out of what 'thou' was death born?

Alissa Valles

#13. The first step to happiness and personal mastery is to start now.

Robbie Vorhaus

#14. For my part, I confess I seldom listen to the players: one has so much to do, in looking about and finding out one's acquaintance, that, really, one has no time to mind the stage. One merely comes to meet one's friends, and show that one's alive.

Fanny Burney

#15. Good and evil always existed. I kind of expected that.

J.L. Weil

#16. An English family consists of a few persons, who, from youth to age, are found revolving within a few feet of each other, as if tied by some invisible ligature, tense as that cartilage which we have seen attaching the two Siamese.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#17. There's no one thing that's true. It's all true.

Ernest Hemingway,