Winnie Holzman Quotes

#1. I worked offshore as an oil worker for a couple of years.

Richard Linklater

#2. So, I have no sense of direction. In some of us it is a TRAGIC FLAW, and

Elizabeth Wein

#3. Food comas - known as postprandial somnolence by people who liked to get bean up during recess - are fine when you're relaxing with friends or family, but they're a major setback when you have exams and papers to write.

Stefanie Weisman

#4. [W]hen the empirical investigator glories in his refusal to go beyond the specialized observation dictated by the traditions of his discipline, be they ever so inclusive, he is making a virtue out of a defense mechanism which insures him against questioning his presuppositions.

Karl Mannheim

#5. What stop-motion does best is present real objects magically brought to life in a very imperfect situation; the hand of the artist is there, the electricity of someone touching, massaging and torturing themselves to get life out of an inanimate object.

Henry Selick

#6. If I love you that'll always be the case, even if it's from the distance

Alexandra Elle

#7. He was a small, chubby little man with a perpetual air of sadness about him, making him look like a baby that has dropped its rattle.

Marion Chesney

#8. I'm a little Jewish girl from Long Island, but when I listened to Tina Turner, I pictured myself in a mini-dress, dancing like Tina Turner. It's inevitable.

Winnie Holzman

#9. I'm a basket case, I thought. Who gets emotional over two letters?
But then I remembered that "no" also only has two letters.
Almost everyone in the world has cried over those.

Emery Lord

#10. I want to be a person that isn't surrounded by their mail and their cat.

Winnie Holzman

#11. There has seldom if ever a shortage of eager young males prepared to kill and die to preserve the security, comfort and prejudices of their elders, and what you call heroism is just an expression of this simple fact; there is never a scarcity of idiots.

Iain Banks

#12. Let the scriptures refresh you.

Neal A. Maxwell

#13. A fellow who cannot throw a flapjack is sadly lacking in the skill one expects to find in a real woodcrafter.

Daniel Carter Beard

#14. This life has been a test. If it had been an actual life, you would have received actual instructions on where to go and what to do.

Winnie Holzman

#15. If there's a single trait common to all Savannahians, it's their love of money and their unwillingness to spend it.

John Berendt

#16. But fate ordains that dearest friends must part.

Edward Young

#17. I use the hook to carry coffee.

Colin O'Donoghue

#18. What makes a man heavy is the gravity of virtue. Without it, man will be so light that he will be drifted in the winds of immorality.

Mehmet Murat Ildan