Louis Nowra Quotes

#1. It were the sort of mist that soaked into your flesh, into your being, so it were like you were one with it ...

Louis Nowra

#2. Lewis - "Why did you hit Brian over the head with the cricket bat?"
Bev - "Because I love him, there was no other way to get his attention.

Louis Nowra

#3. I've always thought that love was being foolish and stupid. It's about being on the edge and I like being on the edge. It's not divine madness like some people think, there's no such thing as divine madness, madness is just madness. Love is hallucinating without drugs.

Louis Nowra

#4. Ernie thought - what's the expression? - that he had a couple of kangaroos loose in the top paddock.

Louis Nowra

#5. It's because his wife left him. That's why he's acting funny. She left him the other night. While she was putting her bags into the taxi he was outside on the footpath begging her to stay. On his knees! Why are men so embarrassing?
Bev

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#6. It's such a private thing - 'my process' - I can just say that the work that I do is like therapy between me and the character.

Kirsten Dunst

#7. The instructor was a man of middle age, in his early fifties; his name was Archer Sloane, and he came to his task of teaching with a seeming disdain and contempt, as if he perceived between his knowledge and what he could say a gulf so profound that he would make no effort to close it.

John Edward Williams

#8. When the bus or the plane rolled or flew through the night, they sang songs of their own composition about Mr Nixon and the Republicans in chorus with the Kennedy staff and felt that they, too, were marching like soldiers of the Lord to the New Frontier.

Theodore White

#9. For, while the tale of how we suffer, and how we are delighted, and how we may triumph is never new, it always must be heard. There isn't any other tale to tell, it's the only light we've got in all this darkness.

James Baldwin

#10. I can honestly say and swear on my patch that I have never in my life hurt anybody that I really didn't feel had it coming, because they was either trying to hurt me or my friends. If everybody was like that it [life] would be real different.

Sonny Barger

#11. Let's go get the slug gun and shoot some cats

Louis Nowra

#12. Don't let the tattoo fool you. I'm no angel.

Cat Johnson

#13. When you travel, learn the history of the place.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#14. D and D: a role-playing game played only by very cool guys.

Frank Portman

#15. I'm thinking about the cat dying, Dulcie and her knife against my throat, Mrs Irvin and her St Thomas bone ... But never my sister. A brother rarely thinks about his sister.

Louis Nowra

#16. It's the body and eyes that tell what a person is thinking or going to do.

Louis Nowra

#17. Religion has become the blind spot of American journalism.

D. Patrick Miller

#18. The strange thing about ships is despite them being crowded and stinky and at the mercy of Nature, most times they are like wooden islands of freedom, free from petty concerns and the laws of the land.

Louis Nowra

#19. Charming. Charming language. Same as your father. Bad language and hating budgies go together.

Louis Nowra