Povahy Lid Quotes

#1. I just watched so many Westerns as a kid that you end up using archetypes and sort of tropes of that genre, because there's a language there and you can twist it and turn it on its head or play to it or go sideways at any time.

Gore Verbinski

#2. I think charm is the ability to be truly interested in other people

Richard Avedon

#3. [B]elieving, was her own true, promising friend once more.

Natalie Babbitt

#4. Oh, my father's had a huge, immense impact on my career. I grew up on movie sets that he was working on, and it just become a part or was a part, was the only part of my life because I spent my whole childhood traveling and being on film sets.

Jake Busey

#5. I deserved to be with a man that truly loved me, no matter how different I was. I deserved to be with a man who saw past all of my faults, no matter how many I had. But most of all, I deserved to be with a man that would submerge himself as far into my darkness as I would into his.

Yolanda Olson

#6. You don't know him the way I do. He's not like that. A broken heart manifests differently in different people. Don't pretend to know how he feels or what he thinks.

H.M. Ward

#7. That dog is mine said those poor children; that place in the sun is mine; such is the beginning and type of usurpation throughout the earth.
[Fr., Ce chien est a moi, disaient ces pauvres enfants; c'est la ma place au soleil. Voila le commencement et l'image de l'usurpation de toute la terre.]

Blaise Pascal

#8. Amazing." She breathed the word. "You will make a fine husband." A strong mate. "Actually, I'm the fly-away groom. It was nice meeting you, moonbeam. Best of luck on trapping some poor bastard into being your Stepford husband.

Eve Langlais

#9. Take a plain-Jane rock and polish it, and you'll find a gem.

Kathleen Jeffrie Johnson

#10. This was a familiar feeling, for there were many places in the great forest where you could drink in its energy, become one with its ancient heart. When you were in trouble, you could find your way in these places.

Juliet Marillier

#11. Books are a staircase to unknown worlds.

Jason Ellis

#12. Basically, when I look at my life, I think I'm lucky to be given the opportunities I've had.

Michael Patrick Jann

#13. Just as there are predatory birds, so there are predatory ideas: I came under their spell ... Just as the survivors say that no one will ever understand the victims, what I must tell you is that you will never understand the executioners.

Elie Wiesel

#14. If writers learn more from their books than do readers, perhaps I may have begun to learn.

Lloyd Alexander