Unmetaphysical Quotes

#1. When I look at life I try to be as agnostic and unmetaphysical as possible. So I have to admit that, most probably, we do not have a fate. But I think that's something that draws us to novels - that the characters always have a fate. Even if it's a terrible fate, at least they have one.

Daniel Kehlmann

#2. Why the rifle? Everybody knows you can't shoot.
Who were these everybodies and would they like to stand in front of me, preferably within ten feet, so I could discuss this issue in greater detail.

Ilona Andrews

#3. The day Chess Pargeter looks t' engage himself with any woman's situation'll be a cold one in the Hot Place for sure

Gemma Files

#4. What was most significant about the lunar voyage was not that men set foot on the moon but that they set eye on the earth.

Norman Cousins

#5. When you makes movies, you usually make good money. But it is also a very tough job. Once you enter the public's eye, you have to be aware that you give up a huge part of your own life. And it is never a job from nine to five.

Brigitte Nielsen

#6. Every foreign policy of every major nation involves reason, common sense, carrots and sticks. You can't have all carrots and no sticks.

Fred Thompson

#7. The thrill isn't in the winning, it's in the doing.

Chuck Noll

#8. I was a geek in high school.

David Schwimmer

#9. At times like this, adults need a drink

Haruki Murakami

#10. I like the sensibility of Australian film a lot and the crews are fantastic. Great characters, wonderful people and no line between - I think in Hollywood they have this line between actors and crew a lot, and that just didn't exist, which I really appreciated.

Barbara Hershey

#11. As holy zeal is the fervency of our grace, so sinful zeal is the intention and fervency of sin.

Richard Baxter

#12. I, too, shall seek honor. But I shall seek it where I know it will be found.

Lloyd Alexander