Quotes of: Roman-polanski Keyword

The lasting and ultimately most important reputation of a film is not based on reviews, but on what, if anything, people say about it over the years, and on how much affection for it they have.

Stanley Kubrick: Interviews

You know what they say,' Suz had texted. 'Once you go geek, you never go back.

The Mason Dixon Line

Your problem is a serious lack of imagination. You can’t imagine being different than you are.

The Mason Dixon Line

Sunny did not eat the wood, of course, but she chewed on it and pretended it was a carrot, or an apple, or a beef and cheese enchilada, all of which she loved.

The Miserable Mill

You can not go back. That's why it's hard to choose. You have to make the right choice. As long, as you don't choose, everything remains possible.

Mr. Nobody

People are capable of great, great change during the span of one lifetime. And women even more than men.

Margarettown

The clever people at CERN are smashing particles together in the hope that Doctor Who will turn up and tell them to stop

Moon Over Soho

He was calling it an atonic seizure because, even if he didn't know why it had happened, it was important to give it a cool name.

Moon Over Soho

The simple rule: some get saved, but most don't. The choices are important before the years begin to go so very fast.

Life After Life

And then suddenly she was on her feet, her heart knocking in her chest, a sudden familiar but long-forgotten terror triggered- but by what?

Life After Life

You must never believe everything they say about a person. Generally speaking, most of it will be lies, half-truths at best.

Life After Life

I wiped my jaw with a forearm, half imagining that I could still feel the product of the quickie out back of the bar.

Lilith

Keep moving. Have a goal, One day you will arrive at a place that is better than the place where you were, even if it is only in your head.

Liberating Paris

A father knows his child's heart, as only a child can know his fathers.

Lone Wolf and Cub, Vol. 1: The Assassin's Road

There's a part of me that thinks perhaps we go on existing in a place even after we've left it.

Let the Great World Spin

Literature can remind us that not all life is already written down: there are still so many stories to be told.

Let the Great World Spin

We stumble on, thinks Jaslyn, bring a little noise into the silence, find in others the ongoing of ourselves. It is almost enough.

Let the Great World Spin

People are good or half good or a quarter good, and it changes all the time- but even on the best day nobody's perfect.

Let the Great World Spin

But knowledge does not protect one. Life is contemptuous of knowledge; it forces it to sit in the anterooms, to wait outside. Passion, energy, lies: these are what life admires.

Light Years

What were you like," I asked her. "we're you happy? Or were you smiling because they told you to?

Memoirs of a Teenage Amnesiac

But now, at this moment, you can't hook your boat to mine, 'cause I'm liable to sink us both. (222)

Memoirs of a Teenage Amnesiac