35 quotes found
“We live in a world of banal miracles.”
“What business does memory have with time?”
“Parenthood makes such sweet hypocrites of us all.”
“Life, he thought, is a blatant act of imagination.”
“Always speak first to the toughest person in the room.”
“Put the fire out? Hell no. What we need to do is stoke it.”
“All we have is the story we tell. Everything we do, every decision we make, our strength, weakness, motivation, history, and character-what we believe-none of it is real; it's all part of the story...”
“He found himself inhabiting the vast, empty plateau where most people live, between boredom and contentment.”
“It was curious what trying to speak English had done lately to his mind; it reminded him of studying poetry in college, words gaining and losing their meaning, overlapping with images, the curious ...”
“Here for business or pleasure, Mr. Wheeler?""Redemption," Shane says.”
“I have this theory, that this will be the only city that future archaeologists find, Las Vegas. The dry climate will preserve it all and teams of scientists in the year 5000 will carefully sweep an...”
“This is a love story, Michael Deane says. But, really, what isnt? Doesnt the detective love the mystery, or the chase, or the nosy female reporter, who is even now being held against her wishes at ...”
“The movie I was working on, "Cleopatra", it's about how destructive a force love can be. But maybe that's what every story is about.”
“() my money guy Richard is going without a tie now, like a politician who wants to appeal to the suffering common man (or perhaps every morning his firm takes the ties and shoelaces away from the b...”
“erhaps it was the difference in age between the countriesAmerica with its expansive youth, building all those drive-in movie theaters and cowboy restaurants; Italians living in endless contraction,...”
“But it's not easy, realising how we fucked it all up. And that turns out to be the hardest thing to live with, not the regret or the fear, but the realisation that the edge is so close to where we ...”
“Two kinds of people always lie about their ages: actresses and Latin American pitchers.”
“He considered it a shame when people couldn't grasp the infinite-a failure not just of imagination but of simple vision.”
“Among the world's evilsfascism, ethnic cleansing, environmental degradation smoking deserves the most severe curricular attention in my kid's school.”
“Ideas are sphincters. Every asshole has one. Your take is what counts.”
“He wished he could reassure his mother: a man wants many things in life, but when one of them is also the right thing, he would be a fool not to choose it.”
“all we have is the story we tell. Everything we do, every decision we make, our strength, weakness, motivation, history, and character--what we believe--none of it is real; it's all part of the sto...”
