"When good ideas get put to bad use, it is the fault of the user, not the idea."

-- Walter Darby Bannard

#Ideas Quotes #Faults Quotes #Use Quotes

“Books, and especially fiction, do not proceed from ideas. They are born from feelings”

Source : Julius Lester (2003). “When Dad Killed Mom”, p.207, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“A mom and dad found an S&M magazine under their 10-year-old son's bed, and the dad said, 'Well, we sure can't spank him.'”
“One realm we have never conquered: the pure present.”

Source : D. H. Lawrence (1966). “Selected Poems of D.h. Lawrence”, Penguin (Non-Classics)
“Art is based on emotion, but being macho is based on ego; the wall protecting that emotion.”

Source : "Miguel: the slow-burn success of a new R&B superstar". Interview with Tim Jonze, www.theguardian.com. February 9, 2013.
“Many & most moments go by with us hardly aware of their passage. But love & hate & fear cause time to snag you, to drag you down like a spider's web holding fast to a doomed fly's wings. And when you're caught like that you're aware of every moment & movement & nuance.”
“We didn't want to live anymore in the old logic. And I like that. The consequence of that is to create the dream of that, but we all know this dream may be not possible. So here we have the key of the ambiguity of the atmosphere of my films. Is it possible, this dream? Is it as funny as it seems, or is it tragic?”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“Evil men often easy to mislead, because they have spent so long deceiving that they no longer recognise the truth and mistake deseption for it.”
“It does mean, if this is the idea, the end of Britain as an independent European state...it means the end of a thousand years of history.”

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