Friendo Quotes

#1. What business is it of yours where I'm from, friendo?

Cormac McCarthy

#2. I didn't ask to be Thom Yorke. Thom Yorke asked to be me.

Thom Yorke

#3. Life is hard, you're tired, and there's disease. The strategy that works for children is to be delighted by the things that delight you.

John Darnielle

#4. That way of inspiration
is always open,
and open to everyone;
it acts as go-between, interpreter,
it explains symbols of the past
in to-day's imagery.

Hilda Doolittle

#5. We choose those we like; with those we love, we have no say in the matter.

Mignon McLaughlin

#6. All we try and do is make the best films we can. If you do that then hopefully the audiences will come, and they have. Everything else is gravy.

David Heyman

#7. We are in the midst--much closer to the beginning than to the end, I believe--of an epic, political, cultural, and economic realignment in treatment of animals.

Wayne Pacelle

#8. Steak on the plate went up. Steak on the hoof went down.

Will Rogers

#9. But, gentlemen, can any of us say that as a result of such overwhelming sacrifices of money, of men, of ideals, and of civil dignity the sense of security has indeed been attained?

Henry Campbell-Bannerman

#10. Hold your eyes on God and leave the doing to him. That is all the doing you have to worry about.

Jane Frances De Chantal

#11. Personally, as a print journalist, I always found the most interesting stories to be the ones hacks talked about in the bar after work.

Nick Denton

#12. I believe that all true art is classic, but the dictates of the mind rarely permit of its being recognized as such when it first appears.

Marcel Proust

#13. Guilt is perhaps the most painful companion of death.

Coco Chanel

#14. It's really important to visit a site you are writing about. Even if you know it well, even if you have lived there, it's important to take a fresh look in terms of your characters and your story.

Marge Piercy

#15. But surely Adam cannot be excused; Her fault though great, yet he was most to blame; What weakness offered, strength might have refused, Being lord of all, the greater was the shame.

Emilia Lanier