Quotes of: Roman-polanski Keyword

We all knew the book well because it's the cult book in Latin America. For me, this was a sacred territory. I would not have ventured into it by myself.

Walter Salles

There is an element of autobiography in all fiction in that pain or distress, or pleasure, is based on the author's own. But in my case that is as far as it goes.

William Trevor

I've been told, by various people, that I think too much. This is incorrect! The truth is that I deliberately challenge people to think more than they would like to.

Wayne Gerard Trotman

Helping people and putting smiles on their faces is a great, great thing. God only knows why more people don't do it more often.

Wayne Gerard Trotman

I still have in me the same awareness when I was 12 and chubby and a girl was spitting in my face. I'm the same person.

Zooey Deschanel

The eyes get lost in 3-D. With 3-D, your eyes are looking for the plane of focus, right? And the problem is, when you do quick cuts, your eyes can't find it.

Zack Snyder

One of the things I think is important about 'Watchmen' is that it have resonance within cinematic pop culture as well as superhero culture.

Zack Snyder

Instead of the word 'love' there was an enormous heart, a symbol sometimes used by people who have trouble figuring out the difference between words and shapes.

The Carnivorous Carnival

Maybe this was why people filled their house with stinking cats, so they didn't notice that they were alone, so they wouldn't die without a living soul noticing.

Case Histories

It was how it had been with the madman among the tombs, that their number was legion, far in excess at any rate if the number listed on the back of the door as the room's maximum occupancy.

Chance

Since I am never alone with myself. Since I am always watching the character playing my part in the scene, there is no possibility of spontaneity.

The Catastrophist

Sorry, there´s no magic bullet. You gotta eat healthy and live healthy to be healthy and look healthy. End of story.

Don't Eat This Book

Art makes the spirit soar. And when the spirit is lifted, life follows.

Don't Sing at the Table: Life Lessons from My Grandmothers

Tears sprang from her eyes and she bit her lip to stop herself from howling at the bright pain.

The Dead Path

the table of elements does not contain one of the most powerful elements that make up our world, and that is the element of surprise.

The Ersatz Elevator

It is almost as if happiness is an acquired taste, like coconut cordial or ceviche, to which you can eventually become accustomed, but despair is something surprising each time you encounter it.

The End

All this miraculous hatred. Christ, a man can't eat his breakfast for filling his belly full of it.

Fishing the Sloe-Black River

He called it potentia because there's nothing quite like Latin for disguising the fact you're making it up as you go along.

Foxglove Summer

The white boys knew they had my attention now, but hesitated -- that's the trouble with being a racist in the white heartlands, you don't get a lot of practical experience.

Foxglove Summer

...and no man gave you a fur coat without expecting to receive something in return. Except for one's husband, of course, who expected nothing beyond modest gratitude.

A God in Ruins

To hear the phrase "our only hope" always makes one anxious, because it means that if the only hope doesn't work, there is nothing left.

The Blank Book