Gayner Evans Quotes

#1. When you hold people up for ridicule, you have to take responsibility when other people act on it.

Jay Asher

#2. When you look at elephant herds that are nonstressed, the males are never around. They mate, they go; they're loners.

Mark Shand

#3. Selfishness in art, as in other things, is sensibility kept at home.

Washington Allston

#4. You know Kim Jong Un, the evil dictator of North Korea? Apparently, a guy in his inner circle used his ashtray while smoking and Kim Jong Un had him executed. I remember the same thing happened when a guy used Martha Stewart's personal lemon zester.

David Letterman

#5. Man discovers truth by reason only, not by faith.

Leo Tolstoy

#6. The 1980s really ended for me in 1992 with the film Kika.

Pedro Almodovar

#7. Once upon a time, about 10 years ago, I thought maybe I could write a mystery series about a midwife in Elizabethan England. I had an elaborately convoluted title and an elaborately convoluted plotline, and at that point I got stupendously bored.

Deborah Harkness

#8. He would not lose her. If he did, this world would witness his rage and need to send him to his grave to stop it.

Annie Nicholas

#9. Humans make errors. We make errors of fact and errors of judgment. We have blind spots in our field of vision and gaps in our stream of attention. Sometimes we can't even answer the simplest questions.

Gary Wolf

#10. I've never slapped anyone before,' she admitted.
'How did you find the experience?'
'It would have been more satisfying if he'd gone flying out of his seat like I imagined.

Alexandra Bracken

#11. A fool who cursed the sun was surprised to see it still shining.

Marty Rubin

#12. I'm usually the first guy to propose a change because I'm continuing my process. We're in a context, in this business, a context in which most screenplays work on a very modest level of achievement, in that a lot of them aren't really written by what you would call writers.

William Monahan

#13. I'd done it, I'd crossed the line between accepted behavior and behavior most of the population would consider a lynching offense, and that morning I felt as real as any of the men in the Escape commercials. It had been dirty and nasty but I wanted more.

Matthew Stokoe