Nutshell Ian Quotes

#1. Finally, her emotions must be tempered, must brew like a storm too high in the atmosphere to be felt on earth. She must never cry until the moment her grief surpasses what any mortal being can bear. Then she will weep - and open up the fissure to our world.

Anonymous

#2. We all know so goddamn well what's best for other people that it seems unnecessary we get to know them before imposing our will on them.

Taylor Nadeau

#3. People who want to be amused have lost the art of living.

Holbrook Jackson

#4. To be bound in a nutshell, see the world in two inches of ivory, in a grain of sand. Why not, when all of literature, all of art, of human endeavour, is just a speck in the universe of possible things.

Ian McEwan

#5. I do some acting. And there's a difference between "I do some acting" and "I'm an actor."

Tom Waits

#6. Rather than you smoking a cigarette, the cigarette is really smoking you.

Anthony Liccione

#7. all this stuff about James being crazy - yeah, I can see that too. He's totally psycho. I grin again. But that's just part of his charm.

J.A. Huss