‘We obey the landowners creed. If it’s attractive, you shoot it, if it’s ugly, you marry it.’
from Darkest Day – Christopher Fowler
‘We obey the landowners creed. If it’s attractive, you shoot it, if it’s ugly, you marry it.’
from Darkest Day – Christopher Fowler
‘Artistic people are often born in adversity and thrive on pain.’
‘When one walks on the wire, it is a question of balance, of confidence in yourself. But the wire is like life. It is the line of life. If you stick on the right path, there is nothing to fear. For me, it is that fundamental, to have conviction, to stay true to oneself.’
–Didier Pasquette – High Wire Walker, from ‘The Society Of Timid Souls‘ by Polly Morland
‘It’s not gluttony but anxiety that puts on the kilos.’
–Gerard Depardieu, from biography, ‘Depardieu‘ by Marianne Gray.
‘At the end of 1968 there were a lot of great electric guitar players in the room- a lot of chances to get discouraged and put your guitar down. But that kind of reaction is the ego talking. Whether your reaction is to stick out your chest, or to run and hide-superiority or instant inferiority-either one is full of shit. You’re supposed to be you.’
–Carlos Santana, from his autobiography, ‘The Universal Tone‘
‘Never laugh at live dragons, Bilbo, you fool!’
–Bilbo Baggins from The Annotated Hobbit by J.R.R Tolkien
‘When you have nowhere to run, you must create a new path.’
– Lieutenant Nanib Sahir, from Age Of Empires lll, The Asian Dynasties, India Campaign
‘You never really know what he’s thinking or what he might do – but it always ends in kindness and fairness. A mighty recipe produced this man.’
Tennessee Williams talking about Hollywood actor Paul Newman, sourced from The Friendship Book 2016
‘In fact, the gunfight didn’t happen at the OK Corral; it happened in a vacant lot, to the north, between a back alley and what is now the highway, but try putting that on a t-shirt.’
‘A person to be quiet with, is harder to find than someone to talk with.’