John Coffey: I'm smellin' me some cornbread. Paul Edgecomb: It's from my mises. She wanted to thank you. John Coffey: Thank me for what? Paul Edgecomb: Well, you know... [whispering] Paul Edgecomb: For a helping me. John Coffey: Helping you with what...
[I]t was [Barnett] Newman who made the famously wry remark, “Aesthetics is for the artist as ornithology is for the birds,
Joe Adams: You don't have to talk to Ray, you're talking to me. Fathead Newman: I'll talk to whoever I damn well please and it sure as hell ain't you.
Paul Hackett: What's your name? Julie: Julie. Paul Hackett: My name's Paul. Julie: Rough night, Paul?
Politics are not the task of a Christian.
We all want to make money.
The composition of a common world would be the definition of politics.
The successful revolutionary is a statesman, the unsuccessful one a criminal.
Idealism is the despot of thought, just as politics is the despot of will.
Politics is a strong and slow boring of hard boards.
Either one lives 'for' politics or one lives 'off' politics.
Those who stand for nothing fall for anything.
Careless and not particularly biting, it was easier to shrug off than anything in the first book which depicted me as an inarticulate zombie confused by the irony of Randy Newman's "I Love L.A.
You promised to take care of me and not to turn your back on me. How is it possible that you never wrote to me even once and you never came back to see me? Do you think that it is fun for me to spend months, even years, without any news, without any ...
The writers that I aspire to, like Joni Mitchell and Randy Newman, they'll tell you that the work gets harder, not easier. And they set that bar for us where we're always striving to do something better than the last time, whether it's the next song ...
Fathead Newman: This ain't no weed, Ray. And we ain't snorting no bitch. This is boy! Boy'll make your ass null and void. Ray Charles: Null and void, just like my life.
Begbie: Picture the scene: The other fuckin' week there, down the fuckin' Volley with Tommy, playing pool. I'm playing like Paul-Fuckin'-Newman by the way. Givin' the boy here the tannin' of a lifetime. So it comes to the, down to the last shot, the ...
They say that the best furniture and clothing design from the '50s and '60s is Scandinavian or Milanese.
What is fashion? It's discipline. Discipline and a credo to do only the best, down to the smallest detail.
Paul Hackett: Which way you headed? Marcy: Downtown, SoHo. Paul Hackett: Oh, nice... nice. A loft? Marcy: Yeah, she's a sculptress. Lately she's been making these Plaster of Paris bagel and cream cheeses. Paul Hackett: Really... Marcy: She's tryin to...
The Christian faith can never be separated from the soil of sacred events, from the choice made by God, who wanted to speak to us, to become man, to die and rise again, in a particular place and at a particular time.
