Wilkie Collins Quotes
We neither know nor judge ourselves; others may judge, but cannot know us. God alone judges and knows us.
Quotes to Explore
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I always start the day by washing my face and moisturizing.
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Dramatically it's always more interesting to conceal rather than reveal things.
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I don't think you should exploit your own pain.
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Boys are so much less mature than girls as it is.
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No one will understand a Japanese garden until you've walked through one, and you hear the crunch underfoot, and you smell it, and you experience it over time. Now there's no photograph or any movie that can give you that experience.
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Any econometrician who wants to see practical application of his science will be highly concerned with applications to economic planning at the national level.
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Basically, what it comes down to is I love what I do. I don't do it for fame. I don't do it for money. I just love it.
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If I hear a lie in my life with my children, with my wife, my work, my audiences, I want to annihilate myself, vaporize myself and wipe myself off the face of the earth.
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I mean no film is beyond criticism, but I think we've made a very modest movie.
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If I don't like someone and I start reading their stuff, it seems like my brain will just automatically start criticizing everything that's there. It's really hard to read a book without having all this outside information telling you what to think about it.
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The essence is, what can we do next? And will it be good?
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I was born in Colorado and grew up in Pennsylvania with family in Texas and Oklahoma.
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Do stuff that scares you on a regular basis. I think it's good for the body and for the mind.
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I don't tend to do much with my lips. My lips are naturally very pink, so if I add any more colour, it looks like I've been smacked in the mouth!
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My first year, people were interested in me because I was new. Then the press started to come.
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I'm not really part of any group or clique or gang because that's always been my nature.
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But they lived those extraordinary lives that can never be lived again. And in the living of them, they gave me a history that is more profound, more beautiful, more powerful, more passionate, and ultimately more useful, than the best damn history book I ever read.
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The creative act requires both will and intelligence. Breaking things is easy. You only need a hammer.
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Each must the other take as sign, short sign To stop the whirlwind, balk the elements.
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That should probably be written: no !@#$%^&*:@!semicolon
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The travel writer seeks the world we have lost - the lost valleys of the imagination.
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Whoever lives for poetry must read everything. How often has the light of a new idea sprung for me from a simple brochure! When one allows himself to be animated by new images, he discovers iridescence in the images of old books. Poetic ages unite in a living memory. The new age awakens the old. The old age comes to live again in the new. Poetry is never as unified as when it diversifies.
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I have to take care of the house, and the dogs, and the Macondo Board meetings, all those e-mails, the letters that are going to fans. And you've got to pay bills. These things eat up your time. You have to prepare and pack to go on that trip. Then when you come back you have to file all that stuff, answer all that mail, and that's not even washing the clothes or any of that. So it takes as many days as I've been away to come back to normal and to get quiet.
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We neither know nor judge ourselves; others may judge, but cannot know us. God alone judges and knows us.
