Intrigues Means Quotes

#1. Sometimes the most valuable of all talents is to be able not to seek resolution; to notice the craving for completeness or certainty or comfort, and not to feel compelled to follow where it leads.

Oliver Burkeman

#2. I'd love to take a stab at writing videogames. There are a lot of storytelling opportunities that really aren't being taken advantage of in that field. I'd like to experiment with telling a truly non-linear story.

Patrick Rothfuss

#3. Trying to be a leader, you've got to be really sure of what you're doing and you've got to guide people the right way.

Genndy Tartakovsky

#4. It's not always about the money and the fame, and a lot of people think that it is sometimes.

Kimora Lee Simmons

#5. Notice how many of the Olympic athletes effusively thanked their mothers for their success? "She drove me to my practice at four in the morning," etc. Writing is not figure skating or skiing. Your mother will not make you a writer. My advice to any young person who wants to write is: leave home.

Paul Theroux

#6. I'm huffing and puffing to blow your house down ... Bronwyn McCall to Ernest Rose.

Marcia Ferguson

#7. I always leave that for other people to decide, because some of the things I consider to be disasters are some people's favorite movies. And that's what I like so much, is that you never know. Something intrigues somebody and means nothing to somebody else.

Christian Bale

#8. Why, my goodness, honey. After looking at all those pictures of seraphic and perspirationless babes for so long in the privacy of a foxhole, what is a poor doughfoot going to do when he comes home and discovers that American women are, after all, biological and given, under stress, to shiny noses?

Margaret Mitchell

#9. Can princes born in palaces be sensible of the misery of those who dwell in cottages?

Stanislaw Leszczynski

#10. But all these systems of 'education' lack provisions for freedom of experiment, for training and for expression of creative abilities by those who are to be taught. In this respect also all our pedagogues are behind the times.

James C. Scott

#11. Sometimes it feels like we're all living in a Prozac nation. The United States of Depression.

Elizabeth Wurtzel

#12. Even though Scientology sees itself as the authority on ethics and responsibility, obscuring the truth is built into its core.

Leah Remini

#13. In Jamaica High School in New York, my coach was Larry Ellis, and he said I could probably make the Olympic team. He gave me something to shoot for.

Bob Beamon

#14. One is never too old to be a student of the enemy.

Orson Scott Card