Mark Hankins Quotes

#1. When the image is new, the world is new.

Gaston Bachelard

#2. The very first law in advertising is to avoid the concrete promise and cultivate the delightfully vague.

Bill Cosby

#3. Inspiration is indispensable to my work, but it is hard to come by. It is there or it is not; it is a gift of the gods.

Elaine De Kooning

#4. I'm not sure they'll tell me if you're not there.

Kiera Cass

#5. Balancing is a discipline precisely because the act of giving something up is painful.

M. Scott Peck

#6. Very occasionally I hire an actor and get it wrong. The actor just doesn't trust the process or me as fully as I thought they would. In this case, you can be quite sure that if an actor is untrusting, it's got nothing to do with me or the process.

Mike Leigh

#7. If you try to to take my bananas from me, I will reclaim them from your cold dead hands.

Terry Pratchett

#8. And then there is, of course, always, and inevitably, this spume of poetry that's just blowing out of the sulphurous flue-holes of the earth. Just masses of poetry. It's unstoppable, it's uncorkable. There's no way to make it end.

Nicholson Baker

#9. Regularity chauvinists are people who insist that you have got to do the same thing every time, every day, which drives some of us nuts. Attention Deficit Disorder - we need a more positive term for that. Hummingbird mind, I should think.

Ted Nelson

#10. People will watch you build a house, but won't pass you a brick. And once your home is built, they want to come inside for dinner.

Andrea L'Artiste

#11. A friend was surprised to hear me say that there was not one moment of my past that I would like to relive.

Gore Vidal

#12. You people don't know what the truth is! It's there, just under their bullshit, but you never look! That's what I hate most about this fucking city
LIES ARE NEWS AND TRUTH IS OBSOLETE!

Warren Ellis

#13. I'm not Irish. Just because I have red hair doesn't mean I'm a lucky charm, you know?

Rebecca Mader

#14. All that we call spirit and art and ecstacy only means that for one awful instant we remember that we forgot.

Gilbert K. Chesterton