Principal Duvall Quotes

#1. Modern discussions of the possibility of tragedy are not exercises in literary analysis; they are exercises in cultural diagnostics, more or less disguised.

Susan Sontag

#2. AFFIRM TO YOURSELF
I believe in the way life works. That which takes care of everything, even the creatures at the bottom of the sea, will take care of me too.

Sirshree

#3. Is this the first time you've peed around another human being?"
"Around a guy," she shouted, "yes!"
"I didn't ask for this!" Gabe shouted back. He started humming loudly - " The Imperial March".

Rainbow Rowell

#4. Every light is not the sun.

Alexander The Great

#5. I'm a novelist, so I can't write about ideas unless they're attached to people.

Julian Barnes

#6. Find things that shine and move toward them.

Mia Farrow

#7. It would seem to me that the solitude of working in the wilds is not healthy for a man.

Patrick DeWitt

#8. Even Jimmy Carter can't be wrong all the time.

P. J. O'Rourke

#9. In a train ... smash. In his arm her last ... breath.' He had loved her. But he hated himself more. Such suffering, so much pain. And he thought it made him hateful. As if suffering was shameful, disgusting, as if pain were a crime. Who can judge another man's suffering?

Janet Fitch

#10. As regards obstacles, the shortest distance between two points can be a curve.

Bertolt Brecht

#11. [on scene execution] Interesting isn't the point ... storytelling momentum and relevance is.

Larry Brooks

#12. If we live with possibilities we are exiles from the present which is given us by God to be our own, homeless and displaced in a future or a past which are not ours because they are always beyond our reach. The present is our right place, and we can lay hands on whatever it offers us.

Thomas Merton

#13. Sunshine and Shadows...That is also the pattern of our lives, ain't so? We have the gut things and the sad, one after another, but all part of who we are

Marta Perry

#14. Looking for happiness is a sure way to sadness, I think. You have to take each moment as it comes.

Benedict Cumberbatch