Rankles Sonic Quotes

#1. After crossing herself, she lay back on the divan and squirted a cool puddle of hand lotion from the bottle she'd brought from London. Invariably she would apply too much, and her hands would be slick and shiny in the candlelight as she asked for another pair with which to share the excess.

Anthony Marra

#2. I did some research once on the way people in the past imagined the year 2000. They tended to picture the things they already had getting more sophisticated - flying cars, self-cleaning windows. And the folks in the early 1900s had a wildly optimistic estimate of the future of pneumatic tubes.

Gail Collins

#3. Directing is creating a whole. You're able to combine different elements and create a film that is unique and true to your vision.

Tim Robbins

#4. Then sit down and write
or stand up and
write
but write
no matter what
the other people are
doing,
no matter what
they will do to
you.

Charles Bukowski

#5. I spit upon your pity.

George R R Martin

#6. If every one of us spreads the message of love, compassion, kindness and forgiveness, peace will be there.

Debasish Mridha

#7. There are no pat answers - we're pushing through some new frontiers, and lessons of the past don't always apply.

Jim Barksdale

#8. No civilized being lived in North Dakota.

Lois Greiman

#9. The camera has an interest in turning history into spectacle, but none in reversing the process. At best, the picture leaves a vague blur in the observer's mind; strong enough to send him into battle perhaps, but not to have him understand why he is going.

Denis Donoghue

#10. Good givers are great getters.

Russell Simmons

#11. His job was to make sense of the world and there were times that he wished the world would meet him halfway.

Terry Pratchett

#12. Act as if you are going to live for ever and cast your plans way ahead. You must feel responsible without time limitations, and the consideration of whether you may or may not be around to see the results should never enter your thoughts.

Hyman George Rickover

#13. This was the house that Paula had taken me and two other graduate students to years earlier. She had told us to go out on the deck, look at the view of the Atlantic Ocean, and say to ourselves, This is what playwriting can buy. Now,

Sarah Ruhl