Writer Tommy Quotes

#1. Most people would rather be certain they're miserable, than risk being happy.

Robert Anthony

#2. I want to photograph what I see and put it in a dramatic context. I'm an actor and a writer, and I want to tell these stories and present these shapes, colors and movements as I see them, as I see them serve a narrative. As I see that narrative serve an audience. That's what I want to do.

Tommy Lee Jones

#3. I was a man fifteen years older than she, you understand. I had reached that stage in life where I identified with cynical villains in a book.

Michael Ondaatje

#4. Things danced on the screen do not look the way they do on the stage. On the stage, dancing is three-dimensional, but a motion picture is two-dimensional.

Gene Kelly

#5. The cup was emptied and would never be filled again.

Hermann Hesse

#6. Give me pity.
Flash.
Give me another chance.
Flash.

Chuck Palahniuk

#7. MRS. ANTROBUS: What, George? What have you lost? ANTROBUS: The most important thing of all: The desire to begin again, to start building.

Thornton Wilder

#8. As the church watches from the sidelines, the ungodly elect atheists and homosexuals to school boards and legislatures to enact policies and laws that destroy our Christian children and discriminate against Christian families.

Robert Simonds

#9. Third party politics, at least since La Follette, has always had an element of romance.

John Kenneth Galbraith

#10. To live in joy and fully manifest our true potential, we must let go of our desires and attachment to the past and the future and be excited about living in the unknown.

Mada Eliza Dalian

#11. I don't want to leave people thinking they've merely seen another actor using his same bag of tricks and fake charm.

David Keith

#12. I made a pact with myself a long time ago: Never watch anything stupider than you. It's helped me a lot.

Bette Midler

#13. One can be a brother only in something. Where there is no tie that binds men, men are not united but merely lined up.

Antoine De Saint-Exupery

#14. The failure of something great is never a simple matter, but where there is success and glory, there must also be failure and shame.

Joe Abercrombie

#15. It's strange, isn't it. You stand in the middle of a library and go 'aaaaagghhhh' and everyone just stares at you. But you do the same thing on an aeroplane, and everyone joins in.

Tommy Cooper

#16. I was a complete outsider in high school.

Karen O