Habitual Forces Quotes

#1. I particularly scorn my fondness for paradox. I despise pessimism, narcissism, solipsism, truculence, word-play, and pusillanimity, my chiefer inclinations; loathe self-loathers ergo me; have no pity for self-pity and so am free of that sweet baseness. I doubt I am. Being me's no joke.

John Barth

#2. You can talk film theory till you're blue in the face, but in the end, the thing that may haunt you most about a movie is a pair of eyes.

Stephanie Zacharek

#3. I find my past in my present, and from these forecast my future.

Amos Bronson Alcott

#4. People will occasionally ask me if I understand what it's like to be lonely. And the truth is I don't, because for me, solitariness is a blessing, a gift. Me, I get on fine with myself.

John Burnside

#5. The fruit of your work grows on other people's trees

Peter Drucker

#6. Ang Lee was educated in the West and his English is good.

Zhang Yimou

#7. Over-familiar, the music has become a kind of audio-Valium, background music rather than something I listen to actively and attentively. A gin and tonic after a long day. A shame, I think, because while each note remains the same, I used to hear them differently. It used to sound better.

David Nicholls

#8. Category:
Inner-space fiction
For there is never anywhere to go but in.

Doris Lessing

#9. Never have a limit to your dreams and plans. Life is a journey each and every moment. Live every moment to it's fullest.

Timothy Pina

#10. The clay can become a bear," she said, "but not as long as it rests cold and wet in the riverbank.

Orson Scott Card

#11. For a free, self-governing people, something more than a vague familiarity with history is essential, if we are to hold on to and sustain our freedom.

David McCullough

#12. A habitual disuse of physical forces totally destroys the moral; and men lose at once the power of protecting themselves, and of discerning the cause of their oppression.

Joel Barlow