Fred Garvin Quotes

#1. All the dialogue on tape, and we'd play the tape in performance. Then I thought it'd be interesting if the actor's repeated what they heard on the tape, but at a slower speed, so we'd get a web of language.

Richard Foreman

#2. A man would never set out to write a book on the peculiar
situation of the human male. But if I wish to define myself, I
must first of all say: T am a woman

Simone De Beauvoir

#3. Every tear of sorrow sown by the righteous springs up a pearl.

Matthew Henry

#4. Imagine foreign troops sitting idly, laughing as hooligans trashed the Smithsonian, stole the gold from Fort Knox and burned down the Department of the Interior. That was us in Iraq.

Ted Rall

#5. An English journalist called Michael Viney told me when I was 25, that I would write well if I cared a lot what I was writing about. That worked. I went home that day and wrote about parents not understanding their children as well as we teachers did, and it was published the very next week.

Maeve Binchy

#6. You should never bet against anything in science at odds of more than about 1012 to 1.

Ernest Rutherford

#7. If death becomes cheap it is the watcher, not the dying, who is poisoned.

Enid Bagnold

#8. Homo sapiens, which as far as I can tell is only another way of saying weaponised chimpanzees who are hellbent on tearing their cage apart without realising it's not a cage, it's their fucking life support they're shredding.

Paul Russell

#9. The mind abhors a vacancy & is wont to people it with phantoms.

David Mitchell

#10. Yeah, I'm a classy guy." Ranger scooped up a handful of popcorn. "A little girl's life is at stake. That doesn't leave much room for ego and turf wars.

Janet Evanovich