Iris Murdoch Quotes
Only lies and evil come from letting people off.
Iris Murdoch
Quotes to Explore
You should only have so many accessories. You have to make sure you have the right ones at the right time.
Olly Murs
If you're going to sell stock and somebody wants to buy it at a price and that price is not a price you dictate, but demand dictates, sell it to them now.
Barry Diller
It's just my natural way - to be funny. I don't know why that is. But as I've said, humor is a quick cover for shock, horror, confusion. The critics hate funny writers for the most part. They think funny is not serious, but I think that funny can be even more serious than nonfunny. And it can be more affecting, too.
T. C. Boyle
I've always thought of fat as just a descriptive word.
Camryn Manheim
The Wood was about young people and the other one is more of a grown up movie.
Taye Diggs
Travel writing is harrowing. You are in paradise, more or less, having to prove it is paradise. It is hard to have a good time trying to figure out a way to say you are having a good time, whether you are having it or not, even in paradise.
Padgett Powell
My favorite meal would have to be good old-fashioned eggs, over easy, with bacon. Many others, but you can't beat that on a Sunday morning, especially with a cup of tea.
Gary Oldman
The girl-next-door image is a sort of joke; for years, I couldn't get any roles other than as somebody dark.
Felicity Kendal
I think every day we look at the mess of the chaos of the civil war in Iraq, I think every day people become more and more convinced that the war was a mistake. I think we have to learn from the mistakes of our past.
Rand Paul
Basically, I'm afraid of everything in life, except filmmaking.
Lars von Trier
When I emerge from filming I feel slightly out of synch with real life, but it's also a relief.
Laura Carmichael
A culture produces ideas which are being explored, which of interest to that culture at that moment. And I think one of the things a writer can do is to take those ideas and go a bit further with them.
Kate Grenville