Flann O'brien The Third Policeman Quotes

#1. Wherefore the mere practical architect is not able to assign sufficient reasons for the forms he adopts; and the theoretic architect also fails, grasping the shadow instead of the substance.

Vitruvius

#2. Whether it's just walking down the street to try to go to a movie, go to dinner, something like that, there are always a few people that recognize you.

Patrick Kane

#3. You can't burn memories, Jerri. I guess you know that now.

Geoff Herbach

#4. A writer needs a life of introspection.

Tom Robbins

#5. She'd thought a gun would fit easily into his hand, the way a gun did for a man who hung out in dim bars and smoky hotel rooms. But it didn't fit easily. It didn't fit at all.

Nora Roberts

#6. When ever I have a Problem, I just sing. Then I know my voice is a lot worse then my Problem.

Rachel Smith

#7. Put your manuscript down, I'd recommend at least two months. Six would be ideal. You really need to get away from it long enough to change your mindset. Unless you have a photographic memory, this technique will work. You'll transform into the one thing you crave feedback from: a reader.

A.J. Flowers

#8. Exposition presupposes an exegetical process to extract the God-intended meaning of Scripture and an explanation of that meaning in a contemporary way.

John F. MacArthur Jr.

#9. I'm always trying to make movies. It's what I love to do more than anything. I love to write and direct.

Frank Whaley

#10. It is the attention we give to bad situations that stops us from getting out of them.

Innocent Mwatsikesimbe

#11. In 1882 I was in Vienna, where I met an American whom I had known in the States. He said: 'Hang your chemistry and electricity! If you want to make a pile of money, invent something that will enable these Europeans to cut each others' throats with greater facility.'

Hiram Maxim

#12. When I started to pay income tax, I was 50 years old.

Alejandro Jodorowsky

#13. Realizations are strange things. They are composed outside of the conscious self, they are the ends of paths we cannot tread in our waking minds, and for this reason, the most shocking realizations may stab across one's mind, and yet be gone in an instant, fleeting, known-and-unknown.

Moira Katson

#14. If you want to attract the coolest man in the world become the coolest woman in the world.

Marianne Williamson

#15. Do not forget, read a passage from the Gospel every day. It is the power that changes us, that transforms us, it changes life and it changes the heart.

Pope Francis