The creative act is a letting down of the net of human imagination into the ocean of chaos on which we are suspended, and the attempt to bring out of it ideas. It is the night sea journey, the lone fisherman on a tropical sea with his nets, and you l...
At that instant a dazzling claw of lightning streaked down the length of the sky. The hedge and the distant trees seemed to leap forward in the brilliance of the flash. Immediately upon it came the thunder: a high, tearing noise, as though some huge ...
There is one kind of laugh that I always did recommend; it looks out of the eye first with a merry twinkle, then it creeps down on its hands and knees and plays around the mouth like a pretty moth around the blaze of a candle, then it steals over int...
I am an obscure and patient pearl-fisherman who dives into the deepest waters and comes up with empty hands and a blue face. Some fatal attraction draws me down into the abysses of thought, down into those innermost recesses which never cease to fasc...
Randal Graves: What'd your mom say when you told her you weren't engaged anymore? Caitlin Bree: She said not to come home until after graduation. Randal Graves: Wow, you got thrown out for Dante? Caitlin Bree: What can I say? He does weird things to ...
Seaman Jones: Conn, sonar! Crazy Ivan! Capt. Bart Mancuso: All stop! Quick quiet! [the ships engines are shut down completely] Beaumont: What's goin' on? Seaman Jones: Russian captains sometime turn suddenly to see if anyone's behind them. We call it...
[Frodo and Sam are lowering themselvs down a cliff] Sam: Can you see the bottom? Frodo: No. Don't look down, Sam, just keep going! Sam: [drops a small box] Ouagh! Catch It! Grab it, Mr. Frodo! [Frodo catches it, loses his grip and then lands on the g...
Fezzik: We face each other as God intended. Sportsmanlike. No tricks, no weapons, skill against skill alone. Man in Black: You mean, you'll put down your rock and I'll put down my sword, and we'll try and kill each other like civilized people? Fezzik...
Mrs. Danvers: Oh, you've moved her brush, haven't you? [moves it slightly] Mrs. Danvers: There, that's better. Just as she always laid it down. "Come on, Danny, hair drill," she would say. [picks up the brush and goes through the motions of combing t...
Joey Gazelle: Hey, Nick. Throw me some bread. [Nicky goes to hand Joey bread when a bullet comes through their window] Joey Gazelle: Oh, shit! Get down! Get down! [crawls on the floor over to Nicky and Teresa] Joey Gazelle: Are you okay? You okay? Ni...
Floyd: Takin' bets today, Red? Red: Smokes or coins, better's choice. Floyd: Smokes. Put me down for two. Red: All right, who's your horse? Floyd: That little sack o' shit. Eighth, eighth from the front. He'll be first. Heywood: Aw, bullshit. I'll ca...
Flight Officer: You need a doctor. Leonard 'Bones' McCoy: I told you people I don't need a doctor, dammit - I AM a doctor! Flight Officer: You need to get back to your seat. Leonard 'Bones' McCoy: I had one. In the bathroom with no windows. Flight Of...
Ziad Jarrah: [in Arabic, after Al-Nami has sat down next to him] What are you doing here? Ahmed Al Nami: Why are we waiting? Ziad Jarrah: It's not the right time. Sit and I will give you the sign. Ahmed Al Nami: When? Ziad Jarrah: Go and sit down. Ah...
Mr. Salt: Where is she going? Willy Wonka: Where all the other bad eggs go, down the garbage chute. Mr. Salt: [laughs] Oh, the garbage chute. Where does it lead to? Willy Wonka: To the furnace. Mr. Salt: [laughs] The furnace! She'll be sizzled like a...
Howard Hughes: Actresses are cheap in this town, darlin'. And I got a lot of money. Katharine Hepburn: Please, Howard, this is beneath you. Howard Hughes: No no. This is exactly me. You come over here out of the blue and tell me you're leaving me for...
[voice-over, spoken with the credits] Shughart: My love, stay strong and you will do well in life. I love you and my children deeply. Today and tomorrow let each day grow and grow. Keep smiling and never give up even when things get you down. So in c...
For me, the times that I dressed provocatively had been empowering. It felt good. It's those times that I felt comfortable in my own skin. Like really, really comfortable. And let's face it, body self-esteem issues are a hurdle many women struggle to...
Write it down. Not just to remember it, but to forget it in the right way. My notebook are a kind of materialized subconscious, a hard-copy memory and its invisible substrata, following their own rules. More than once I have been surprised to discove...
When You Are Old" WHEN you are old and grey and full of sleep, And nodding by the fire, take down this book, And slowly read, and dream of the soft look Your eyes had once, and of their shadows deep; How many loved your moments of glad grace, And lov...
Manuscripts - at least for Muslims who understand the subject - are to be read as books whose contents are to be known and understood, for that is why they were written, and not to be regarded as enigmatic specimens for critical textual and philologi...
if I had waited long enough I probably never would have written anything at all since there is a tendency when you really begin to learn something about a thing not to want to write about it but rather to keep on learning about it always and at no ti...
