Jim Scrivener Quotes

#1. New York is perfect for Tanizaki because it's filled with so many dark spaces.

Cary Fukunaga

#2. This is the tragedy of modernity: as with neurotically overprotective parents, those trying to help are often hurting us the most.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

#3. Science has nothing to do with any dogma. Science ceases to exist when there is a dogma.

Jean-Marie Lehn

#4. The best thing about skiing backwards is you can see where you've been.

Warren Miller

#5. I learned that words are no good; that words dont ever fit even what they are trying to say at.

William Faulkner

#6. I'm a romantic fool. I always end up getting hurt.

Isaac Hanson

#7. Graphic design is the fiction that anticipates the fact.

Michael Bierut

#8. His name," said the cabman, "was Mr. Sherlock Holmes."
Never have I seen my friend more completely taken aback than by the cabman's reply. For an instant he sat in silent amazement. Then he burst into a hearty laugh.

Arthur Conan Doyle

#9. The relationship between the critic and writer is similar to the one between the pigeon and the statue or the dog and lamp post.

Ashwin Sanghi

#10. All I need is room enough to lay a hat and a few friends.

Dorothy Parker

#11. There is more both of beauty and of raison d'etre in the works of nature- than in those of art.

Aristotle.

#12. How dreadful it is when the right judge judges wrong!

Sophocles

#13. You don't get over it because 'it' is the person you loved.

Jeanette Winterson