Laurie Colwin Quotes
We need time to defuse, to contemplate. Just as in sleep our brains relax and give us dreams, so at some time in the day we need to disconnect, reconnect, and look around us.
Laurie Colwin
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Ninety-nine percent of the time, when it comes down to it, if I have the choice between a great role and seeing a new guy, I would probably go for the great role because I figure if the guy's really that great that he'll be around once I'm done with the movie.
Madeline Zima
I think I'm a narcoleptic. I could sleep on a railway track with a train running over me, in-between the rails.
Dan Aykroyd
I had a good job as a printer in the East End. Before the unions destroyed it, that job was very lucrative.
Eddie Marsan
I shall, in due time, be a Poet.
Ada Lovelace
I had spent time in New York, where I loved the idea that theater could be done up in tiny little rooms rather than for lots of money on a big stage, and be tied to ordinary life.
Garry Hynes
God is not anything human. God is a force, God is chaos, God is unknown. God is terror and enlightenment at the same time.
Ralph Fiennes
Once comics become your life, you have to make decisions on what you spend your time on.
Faith Erin Hicks
In matters of great concern, and which must be done, there is no surer argument of a weak mind than irresolution; to be undetermined where the case is so plain, and the necessity so urgent. To be always intending to live a new life, but never to find time to set about it; this is as if a man should put off eating, and drinking, and sleeping, from one day and night to another, till he is starved and destroyed.
John Tillotson
Dick Dart emerged from the ether during a flight from New York with my wife and children to Puerto Rico.
Peter Straub
What is literature but the expression of moods by the vehicle of symbol and incident?
William Butler Yeats
We need time to defuse, to contemplate. Just as in sleep our brains relax and give us dreams, so at some time in the day we need to disconnect, reconnect, and look around us.
Laurie Colwin