Xxxix Quotes

#1. Law Number XXXIX: Never promise to complete any project within six months of the end of the year, in either direction.

Norman Ralph Augustine

#2. CHAPTER XXXIX INTRODUCES SOME RESPECTABLE CHARACTERS WITH WHOM THE READER IS ALREADY ACQUAINTED, AND SHEWS HOW MONKS AND THE JEW LAID THEIR WORTHY HEADS TOGETHER

Charles Dickens

#3. We know not through our intellect but through our experience.

Maurice Merleau Ponty

#4. This whole thing about reality television to me is really indicative of America saying we're not satisfied just watching television, we want to star in our own TV shows. We want you to discover us and put us in your own TV show, and we want television to be about us, finally.

Steven Spielberg

#5. Kiss me, please kiss me, and make me forget all about the countless things trying to drag me under.

Katee Robert

#6. There's not a lot of stories for women told by women in a very real, true voice.

Heather Graham

#7. Directing film is the hardest thing I have ever done.

Anton Corbijn

#8. I was not a collective person or a bohemian; I was an elitist.

Elia Kazan

#9. Take the feeling of hunger out of your gut, and you're no longer a champion.

Burt Lancaster

#10. As soon as I knew that I would be all right, I was sure that I was dead and didn't know it. I moved through the days like a severed head that finishes a sentence. I waited for the moment that would snap me out of my seeming life.

Amy Hempel

#11. I am so tired. Tired--but so so so wired to the moon.

Caitlin Moran

#12. Japan is very cosmopolitan - it values its origins, but a world view hovers above this narrow perspective. The interest of the Japanese in their folk culture is transcendental.

F. Sionil Jose

#13. The hatred you're carrying is a live coal in your heart - far more damaging to yourself than to them.

Lawana Blackwell

#14. Doc remembered how Polaroids have no negatives and the life of the prints is limited. These, he noticed, were already beginning to shift color and fade.

Thomas Pynchon

#15. A gentle boy with a gentle soul, but every soul contains its own opposite, and the opposite of gentleness was ruthlessness - the beautiful wreckage of mercy.

Cassandra Clare

#16. THE LAW OF OPPOSITION "To him who overcomes ... " Revelation 2:7 Life without war is impossible in the natural or the supernatural realm. It is a fact that there is a continuing struggle in the physical, mental, moral, and spiritual areas of life.

Oswald Chambers