Quotes November 02, 2024

Nothing is ever completely finished, but I know when I get to the end of something that this is the last scene of the book, or this is the last shot of the video. It tells you: enough already.
Gary Hoisington (July 16, 1950 – October 23, 2024), known as Gary Indiana
writer, critic
1950-2024
 
 
 
 
I wear each of my films as a badge of pride. That’s why I cherish all my bad reviews. If the critics start liking my movies, then I’m in deep trouble.
John Carpenter,
filmmaker, composer
 
 
 
 
Beware; for I am fearless, and therefore powerful.
Nothing is so painful to the human mind as a great and sudden change.
Mary Shelley,
writer
 
 
 
 
All that we see or seem / Is but a dream within a dream.
Edgar Allan Poe,
poet, writer, editor
 
 
 
 
Time isn’t the main thing. It’s the only thing.
Miles Davis – 1926-1991 – American Trumpeter
 
 
 
 
The absence of evidence is not the evidence of absence.
Price Pritchett – Author-Business Advisor-Speaker
 
 
 
 
Be disciplined about what you respond and react to. Not everyone or everything deserves your time, energy, and attention. Stay in your light.
Lalah Delia – Writer
 
 
 
 
“All change is not growth, as all movement is not forward.”
Ellen Glasgow
 
 
 
 
“Without change, something sleeps inside us, and seldom awakens. The sleeper must awaken.”
Frank Herbert
 
 
 
 
“Hope is not a resting place but a starting point – a cactus, not a cushion.”
H. Jackson Brown Jr.
 
 
 
 
“Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we’ve been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.”
Barack Obama
 
 
 
 
I think that’s what good art is, you know? … It’s like somebody has thought of something in a way that you haven’t and it just makes things more interesting.
Roz Chast,
cartoonist
 
 
 
 
I try to be available for life to happen to me.
Bill Murray