Finish Basement Quotes

#1. One thing that everybody told me about directing was, 'Never compromise'. And the whole job is a compromise. So it's very paradoxical. How do you not compromise when the whole thing is about compromise?

Matt Dillon

#2. Children simply don't make the distinction; a book is either good or bad. And some of the books they think are good are very, very bad indeed.

Mark Haddon

#3. It is not our abilities that show who we truly are, it is our choices.

J.K. Rowling

#4. Orthodoxy is the death of intelligence.

Bertrand Russell

#5. The only test is what you see when you look in a mirror.

Steve Backley

#6. You led the soldiers right to my family's door. You're the reason they're dead.

Marie Lu

#7. The first thing I did when my career started moving was to buy a small house.

Freddie Prinze Jr.

#8. The center holds; passion falls away. That is what happened ideologically in Western Europe over recent years.

William Pfaff

#9. I knew an Ethersworn monk once, who made it a practice to believe six impossible things before breakfast; if he could manage only five, he stayed in bed.

Matthew Woodring Stover

#10. People don't have dominion over Nature. it's gone beyond that. Human beings and the world are now the same thing. The future and whatever happens to you after you die - it's all melted together. Death isn't the escape hatch the way it used to be.

Douglas Coupland

#11. Recommend virtue to your children; it alone, not money, can make them happy. I speak from experience.

Ludwig Van Beethoven