Blofeld: Three men were found dead on the Orient Express train at Trieste. One of them was Grant. What have you got to say about that Number Five? Kronsteen: It was Klebb's choice. Her people failed. Rosa Klebb: It was your plan they followed implici...
Sugar: Oh Josephine! The most wonderful thing happened! Joe: What? Sugar: Guess. Joe: They repealed prohibition? Jerry: Oh come now, you can do better than that. Sugar: I met one of them. Joe: One of whom? Sugar: Shell Oil Junior. He's got millions, ...
Adam: What were you doing when I called? Were you on facebook? Katherine: You know... umm... stalking my ex-boyfriend actually isn't the only thing I do in my free time. Adam: I wish you were my girlfriend. Katherine: Girlfriends can be nice. You jus...
Herr Liszt: Yes Bruno? Bruno: I don't understand, the Jew is down to this one man? Herr Liszt: The Jew here means the entire Jewish race. If it was just this one man I'm sure something would be done about him. Bruno: There is such thing as a nice Jew...
This is the essence of Rembrandt's advice to Van Hoogstraten: the authentic craft develops naturally from one's own experience. So, it seems reasonable to suggest that the search should not be for the lost secrets, but for one's own practice. This is...
The arm of flesh will fail you," Bridie's grandmother had been fond of reminding her, especially after she'd started dating, bringing home this one and that one, going on and on about them. "Love with all your heart, . . . but don't look to anybody b...
There's one thing your writing must have to be any good at all. It must have you. Your soul, your self, your heart, your guts, your voice -- you must be on that page. In the end, you can't make the magic happen for your reader. You can only allow the...
So to the wretched writer I should like to say that there’s one body only whose request for your caresses is not vulgar, is not unchaste, untoward, or impolite: the body of your work itself; for you must remember that your attentions will not merel...
Efficiency is doing the thing right. Effectiveness is doing the right thing.
It's no big thing, but you make big things out of little things sometimes.
It's just that if you're not disruptive everything seems to be repeated endlessly - not so much the good things but the bland things - the ordinary things - the weaker things get repeated- the stronger things get suppressed and held down and hidden.
It doesn't make sense to have to do the wrong thing in order to do the right thing.
First things first.
Can I be honest with you, Mr. Wind-Up Bird? I mean, really, really, really honest? Sometimes I get sooo scared! I’ll wake up in the middle of the night all alone, hundreds of miles away from anybody, and it’s pitch dark, and I have absolutely no ...
We hurt one another. We go through life dressing up in new clothes and covering up our true motives. We meet up lightly, we drink rosé wine, and then we give each other pain. We don't want to! What we want to do, what one really wants to do is put o...
One of the things I dread about becoming an adult is that sooner or later you begin letting sentimentality get in the way of simple logic.
One thing you'll learn as you get older, Simon, is that when people tell you something unpleasant about themselves, it's usually true.
God bless our good and gracious King, Whose promise none relies on; Who never said a foolish thing, Nor ever did a wise one.
If we see our relationship to this planet in a wide perspective, one thing is clear: we belong to this planet, not the other way around.
If you say one thing, and do something different, how can your conscience trust you? Self-trust comes from integrity.
Certain things, they should stay the way they are. You ought to be able to stick them in one of those big glass cases and just leave them alone.
