Posts Not Directed To People Quotes

#1. I had a daughter who was 9 years old and I had the feeling I wasn't going to be a real parent if I didn't quit making movies for a while and spend time with her. I also felt that I'd made enough movies and said what I had to say at the time.

Jane Campion

#2. From time to time it may find it useful to send out missionaries, but its first missionary task is to be a witness in and to the worlds in which it finds itself. All missionary tasks are in that sense local.

Stanley Hauerwas

#3. Throwing people out of a game is like learning to ride a bicycle
once you get the hang of it, it can be a lot of fun.

Ron Luciano

#4. Oh, I'm starting to cry again. That's what happens when you think about life being fair. And I can't explain why it isn't ... I don't think it's something anybody knows.

L.J.Smith

#5. Book after book, I get hooked, every time the writer talks to me like a friend.

Marc Bolan

#6. I sit in the dark. And it would be hard to figure out which is worse: the dark inside, or the darkness out.

Rabih Alameddine

#7. I do loads of one-pot things because I feel like you can't go too far wrong. And I make a lot of soups and casseroles, which is so boring, but it's the only thing I can do!

Sophie McShera

#8. Whatever happened is water under the bridge. Burn the damn bridge and forget the past, he whispered.

Carolyn Brown

#9. In the '80s, everyone wanted to be in opera. It was groovy.

Baz Luhrmann

#10. I'm a self-confessed geek, and my whole concept of music at first was entirely electronic. In many ways, it turned out to be an advantage. I was so green, so utterly naive about the nature of classical music, that I did things that made me look totally, deliberately unorthodox.

Eric Whitacre

#11. You do not achieve anything without trouble, ever.

Margaret Thatcher

#12. That is always how it is, though, isn't it?" Shuden asked. "Those who can least afford extravagance seem to be the ones most determined to spend what they have left.

Brandon Sanderson

#13. When we look back, the only things we cherish are those which in some way met our original want; the desire which formed in us in early youth, undirected, and of its own accord.

Willa Cather

#14. Nothing feels real, but that's not a problem because she still hopes that at some point she'll wake up and this will all have been a dream.

Lucy Dillon