Lanssens Brussels Quotes

#1. This is Europe's true predicament: together with the fear of man we have also lost the love of man, reverence for man, confidence in man, indeed the will to man. Now the sight of man makes us weary. What is nihilism today if not that?

Friedrich Nietzsche

#2. As I've always said, preproduction is so important. When you cast the actors, you've done much of the work. Now, you may need to guide them a little, take it up or down, have them go faster or slower, but the casting process is crucial.

Robert Wise

#3. Whatever I wrote was heretical. It offended the editors of the women's magazines.

Betty Friedan

#4. I was diagnosed with a severe temporal spatial deficit, a learning disability that means I have zero spatial relations skills. It was official: I was a genius trapped in an idiot's body.

Sloane Crosley

#5. By the way, pornography? It's a new synaptic pathway. You wake up in the morning, open a thumbnail page, and it leads to a Pandora's box of visuals. There have probably been days when I saw 300 vaginas before I got out of bed.

John Mayer

#6. Never ask people. Not about your work. Don't you know what you want? How can you stand it, not to know?

Ayn Rand

#7. More of your brain is involved when reading than it is when you watch television ... because you are supplying just about everything ... you're a creator.

Margaret Atwood

#8. Owl felt happy as he filled his cup. It tastes a little bit salty, he said, but tear-drop tea is always very good.

Arnold Lobel

#9. When I pick up a book and read it, I want to be transported. I want to be taken someplace that I didn't quite know existed, so that by the time I close the book, and return to my own reality, my world is expanded and has become a little larger and a little more complicated.

Anthony Marra