"We're much alike, bee, you and me," I said. "You may carry your pack underneath you and your rifle may stick out of your bottom. But you and me, bee, are much alike."

-- Michael Morpurgo

#May Quotes #Bees Quotes #Sticks Quotes

“Self-restraint is feeling your oats without sowing them.”
“There's some ambient music that doesn't do anything. I wouldn't say that that's narrative. It is narrative in that it creates a sort of world where nothing happens, where really nothing happens, so you become a different person after hearing eight minutes of exactly the same thing. Yes, I hear music all the time in which one idea is strung together to another idea, and I feel that such music is non-narrative.”
“I'm pretty slapstick in my life but nobody sees that. You get typecast. I'm from New York and I have a sh*t-detector that's outspoken. I'm very streetwise and the producers detect that. So they get me on a movie and kill me. I go into their offices and I'm sure when I leave they say, 'You know, he'd be great to kill'. I've been killed every way you can imagine.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Like every other form of art, literature is no more and nothing less than a matter of life and death. The only question worth asking about a story â€” or a poem, or a piece of sculpture, or a new concert hall â€” is, Is it dead or alive?”

Source : "Mavis Gallant obituary" by Christopher Hawtree, www.theguardian.com. February 18, 2014.
“Well, my dad was into music, but he wasn't into me being into music. In my house when I was a kid, when I was real young, my dad wanted us all to play sports, and we were jock-like. We had a lot of money. And my brother was sort of the light of our family, and he was a good athlete. And I wasn't a very good athlete, but I tried to be. And then when I was 15 my dad went bankrupt, and we moved to Houston. And I went with him, but then I went back to Portland.”
“I don't know very many people who can piece together eloquent prayers when their souls are wounded. Words don't come at those times, but tears do. I have always thought of my tears as prayers.”
“They thought I suffered from lack of exterior, when I suffered from excess of interior”
“Killing one person makes you a murderer. Killing a million people makes you a king. Killing them all makes you God.”

Source : Ted Dekker, Frank E. Peretti (2008). “House (Movie Edition)”, p.91, Thomas Nelson Inc

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