Gatiss And Moffatt Quotes

#1. I never yet knew the sun to be knocked down and rolled through a mud-puddle; he comes out honor-bright from behind every storm. Let us then take sides with the sun, seeing we have so much leisure.

Henry David Thoreau

#2. In the digital age we're in now, with satellite radio and Pandora and stuff like that, it's not about, "I listen to this kind of music." It's about, "I listen to good music and bad music."

Eric Church

#3. My wife is possessive and I like that

Fawad Afzal Khan

#4. If a director brings a guy to their movie who does improv, they've got to let him do what he does - otherwise it's like bringing Michael Jordan to your basketball team and telling him to just pass the ball and don't shoot.

J. B. Smoove

#5. Parents, it seems, have an almost Olympian persistence when it comes to suggesting more secure and lucrative lines of work for their children who have the notion that writing is an actual profession. I say this from experience.

Susan Orlean

#6. All the contortions we go through just not to be ourselves for a few hours.

Keith Richards

#7. Sometimes I just play the theme from Arthur. It reminds me of my childhood in New York and I just love it.

Nicolas Winding Refn

#8. Remember: don't let uncertainty about your future paralyze your present.

Stefanie Weisman

#9. Then marriage may be said to be past in all quietnesse, when the wife is blind, and the husband deafe.

Thomas Heywood

#10. The final test for a novel will be our affection for it, as it is the test of our friends, and of anything else which we cannot define.

E. M. Forster

#11. The sun does not rue that it rises.

Karen Marie Moning

#12. It is only after you have come to know the surface of things ... that you can venture to seek what is underneath. But the surface of things is inexhaustible.

Italo Calvino

#13. Wearing a black belt does not make you a super hero, and wearing a white belt does not mean you have little to offer as a person. It is what we do in the belts we wear, and not the belts themselves that matter.

Chris Matakas

#14. I think the most important lesson isn't necessarily to try and write a different book every time, or to try and brand yourself and write one specific kind of book, but to write the kind of books you love to read.

Chris Bohjalian