The Mystic River Quotes

#1. The law is not a series of calculating machines where answers come tumbling out when the right levers are pushed.

William O. Douglas

#2. We may have our private opinions but why should they be a bar to the meeting of hearts?

Mahatma Gandhi

#3. The method of satyagraha requires that the satyagrahi should never lose hope, so long as there is the slightest ground left for it.

Mahatma Gandhi

#4. I had been a kind of natural mystic my whole life, growing up there in Tennessee next to the river. Somehow, that was important for my consciousness. I still don't study [mysticism]. I just wait for experiences.

Coleman Barks

#5. Thus, that happiness the two sexes cannot find with the other they will find, one in blind obedience, the other in the most energetic expression of his domination.

Marquis De Sade

#6. And he saw it in her eyes. Still. The belief that there could be someone other than herself. You, he wanted to shout. You. No one but you. Stupid, stupid girl.

Melina Marchetta

#7. I'm in showbiz. I look at my boobs like they're show horses or show dogs. You've got to keep them groomed.

Dolly Parton

#8. I hope to make people realize how totally helpless animals are, how dependent on us, trusting as a child must that we will be kind and take care of their needs.

James Herriot

#9. I've been through a lot of things in my personal and family life. That turned me into a fighter. I always strive to be the best I possibly can.

Hope Solo

#10. We all die alone ... I could have helped her with the dying.

Dennis Lehane

#11. My mother once told me she thought hell would be nothing more than being given a glimpse of God
then having it taken away, forever.

Glen Duncan

#12. On 'Mystic River,' I had to cut my salary and everyone else's to get it made.

Clint Eastwood

#13. The harsh light above them caught her face, and Sean could see what she'd look like when she was much older - a handsome woman, scarred by wisdom she never asked for.

Dennis Lehane

#14. Crash is hyper-articulate and often breathtakingly intelligent and always brazenly alive. I think it's easily the strongest American film since Clint Eastwood's Mystic River, though it is not for the fainthearted.

David Denby

#15. Would that be dangerous, to not look while being looked at?

Helen Oyeyemi

#16. She told him that he had the most beautiful voice she'd ever heard, that it sounded like whiskey and wood smoke.

Dennis Lehane

#17. Oscar nominations came out today. Up for best actor, Sean Penn for 'Mystic River,' Jude Law for 'Cold Mountain,' and of course, George W. Bush for 'Iraqi Weapons of Mass Destruction.'

Jay Leno

#18. War disorganizes, but it is to reorganize.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#19. You can give your life meaning.' She stroked my forehead from the center to the temples, with just her fingertips. 'We all can.

Jeri Smith-Ready

#20. A true architect is not an artist but an optimistic realist. They take a diverse number of stakeholders, extract needs, concerns, and dreams, then create a beautiful yet tangible solution that is loved by the users and the community at large. We create vessels in which life happens.

Cameron Sinclair

#21. I am hopelessly devoted to paper. Nothing against e-readers of any sort - anything that keeps people reading is okay by me - but I am not, historically, an early adopter of such things.

Jonathan Dee

#22. 'Mystic River' just smelled interesting to me. So I read it and liked it right away. Even the dialogue in it was great.

Clint Eastwood

#23. Hell, you're the only man I've ever met that I would stand in front of a judge and say I'm gay for.

Kaje Harper