Jimmied Handcuffs Quotes

#1. A stable social system is necessary, but every stable system hitherto devised has hampered the development of exceptional artistic or intellectual merit. How much murder and anarchy are we prepared to endure for the sake of great achievements such as those of the Renaissance?

Bertrand Russell

#2. I'm inspired by whatever I see, feel, hear about, watch on the TV ... anything. It can be something that I really need to get off my chest so I write or something a friend is going through which gets my thoughts going.

Eliza Doolittle

#3. Wickedness is not as interesting as you might hope.

Richard House

#4. For what human ill does dawn not seem to be alternative?

Thornton Wilder

#5. No knife cuts as swiftly, deeply and precisely as the blade of the Beloved.

Tiziana Stupia

#6. It should be if you're a good singer and a good songwriter, you should have your spot. You get everybody trying to release the prettiest guy, but that doesn't mean they're the best artist. Most of the time the true artists are just normal old dudes.

Randy Houser

#7. The only kind of film I want to write is a story where I can keep on seeing the stories play out. I'm a huge television fan, and I'm a huge continuing storyline fan.

Melissa Rosenberg

#8. One can grow accustomed to carrying unseeable scars, as if the tattoo one wears is inked in flesh tone over flesh tone; but nevertheless one is still covered in secret, painted with secret, stained by it.

Lyndsay Faye

#9. When the eagles are silent, the parrots begin to jabber.

Winston S. Churchill

#10. I think it's important not to grow up too fast. I'm 26 now, and I still can't wait for Christmas Day. The inner seven-year-old isn't buried too deeply in me.

Laura Haddock

#11. You don't know someone until you've seen their darkness.

C.M. Rayne

#12. You think when you don't want to do anything. Thinking is a poor alternative to acting. Your thinking is consuming all your energy. Act, don't think!

U.G. Krishnamurti

#13. In the beginning was the Word.
In the end ... past honor, past life, past caring ...
In the end will be the Word.

Dan Simmons

#14. It is labour indeed that puts the difference on everything.

John Locke

#15. If you manipulate, coerce, and bully your children, you will have no power at all. If you lead with humility, gentleness, and by example, you will need no power at all.

William Martin