
The reason one writes isn't the fact he wants to say something. He writes because he has something to say. —
F Scott Fitzgerald

People are able to live with only half a heart, to live without real compassion, because they are able to use words that are only forms. —
Angus Wilson

The whole of life is symbolic because the whole of it has meaning. —
Boris Pasternak

Defeat is worse than death because you live with defeat. —
Bill Musselman

I'm a great coder. But I am not pushing that so much anymore because there are thousands of great coders. —
Bill Budge

Stiles doesn't even know how short of a leash he's on, because he never even tests it. —
1001cranes

I waited a long time to have children because I had this career that was kind of like my kid, it required as much nurturing. —
Minnie Driver

This is not a time for hereos because nobody will let it happen —
F Scott Fitzgerald

My mother had to explain that one couldnt compose a Liszt rhapsody because it was a piece of music that Liszt himself had composed. —
Sergei Prokofiev

Sometimes you just have to be proud of yourself, not just because of what you doing, but because of who you are —
K.C Mathobela

For the first time in my life I've done something for me and by choice and not because somebody told me it was good or bad. —
Lauren Oliver

I'll never fall in love, because I could never trust that I wouldn't be abandoned. —
Don Lee

The tendency when you dictate is to overwrite, because you're not counting pages, you don't really know what the hell the page count is. —
Rod Serling

The things two people do to each other they remember. If they stay together, it's not because they forget; it's because they forgive. —
Demi Moore

I won't make shorthand films, because I don't want to manipulate audiences into assuming quick, manufactured truths. —
John Cassavetes

Look around you at the people you've been taught to hate, because hate is just a cloak that hides fear. —
April White

If I'd done that today, you would have lost control. The only reason why you didn't was because I treated you like my husband, not a monster. —
Cora Reilly

Why should we be denied basic human rights just because we've messed up our relationships? —
Nick Hornby

I found Waldo. He was in a strip club. He was hard to spot, because he'd already stripped off his red and white striped sweater and was all sweaty. —
Jarod Kintz

I haven't wanted to play a mother for a long time because I am one. —
Frances McDormand

Just because I grew up a white guy in America doesn't mean that's the music of my life. —
Ezra Koenig

I'll buy something because I love it. —
Lori Petty

Man's ultimate concern must be expressed symbolically, because symbolic language alone is able to express the ultimate. —
Paul Tillich

I get startled really easily, so I hate horror films. I have to close my eyes when I think something is going to make me jump, because I just scream. —
Leigh Lezark