21 quotes found
“We live in a world of banal miracles.”
“What business does memory have with time?”
“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.”
“Use beautiful to describe a sandwich, and the word means nothing.”
“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.”
“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.”
“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,...”
“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.”
“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...”
“And while his mother's lecture had gone over his seven-year-old head, Pasquale saw now what she meant--how much easier life would be if our intentions and our desires could always be aligned.”
“I guess I forgot we were going out tonight.""We always go out on Fridays.""It's Thursday, Alvis.""You are so tied to routine.”
“Weren't movies his generation's faith anyway--its true religion? Wasn't the theater our temple, the one place we enter separately but emerge from two hours later together, with the same experience,...”
“This is a love story, Michael Deane says. But, really, what isn’t? Doesn’t the detective love the mystery, or the chase, or the nosy female reporter, who is even now being held against her wishes a...”
