Whimsically Volatile Quotes

#1. In all my science fiction movies, I try to blend the familiar with the futuristic so as not to be too off-putting to the audience. There is always something familiar they can grab onto.

David Twohy

#2. If I begin my book with a review of the coup, it is only to show that my abiding interests for Australia did not end with it. They shall end only with a long and fortunate life.

Gough Whitlam

#3. The work, the pride in your work, the worth of the work itself ... all those things faded away to the magic-lantern shades they really were when the pain got bad enough.

Stephen King

#4. A novel can grant humanity even to those who act inhumanely, and by making men and women of monsters, it can offer not only a ground-level view of a particular conflict, but a descent into the substratum of human nature capable of the incomprehensible.

Anthony Marra

#5. If you can't say "Fuck" you can't say, "Fuck the government.

Lenny Bruce

#6. After all those years of doing remote detonations, where we just push a button and something explodes, to actually see a nice big fat line of black smoke heading toward something that will blow up is very satisfying.

Adam Savage

#7. What modern art means is that you have to keep finding new ways to express yourself, to express the problems, that there are no settled ways, no fixed approach. This is a painful situation, and modern art is about this painful situation of having no absolutely definite way of expressing yourself.

Louise Bourgeois

#8. A dead Christ I must do everything for; a living Christ does everything for me.

Andrew Murray

#9. Had I been a great athlete, I'm not sure I would have even gone into coaching. I may have turned out feeling that my life ended when my athletic career ended, as happens so many times with various athletes.

Lou Holtz

#10. When you have a position, you put it on for a reason, and you've got to keep it until the reason no longer exists.

Richard Dennis

#11. I've just had the opportunity to see the finished film of 'The Hunger Games.' I'm really happy with how it turned out. I feel like the book and the film are individual yet complementary pieces that enhance one another.

Suzanne Collins