Ti West Quotes

Death has nothing to do with going away.The sun sets.The moon sets.But they are not gone.~Rumi

She understood children, and knew that they were adults handicapped by a humiliating disguise and had their adult qualities within them.

We work all our lives to be who we become. And, it's who we become that determines what becomes of us.

Life really is a story, and every story comes to an end. At the same time, it seems we all leave in the middle of our own stories. It's who we become that gives the story body, form and meaning.

It was as if - this something I thought of only later, of course - she was gently peeling back one layer after another that covered a person's heart, a very sensual feeling.

There are some things in this world that can be done over, and some that can't. And time passing is one thing that can't be redone. Come this tar, and you can't come back.

There are some things in this world that can be done over, and some that can't. And time passing is one thing that can't be undone. Come this far, and you can't go back.

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It was as if - this something I thought of only later, of course - she were gently peeling back one layer after another that covered a person's heart, a very sensual feeling.

Feminism is really just the long slow realization that the things you love hate you.

In a certain light, feminism is just the long, slow realization that the stuff you love hates you

People call me a feminist whenever I express statements that distinguish me from a doormat.

It was hard when I knew I was about to be flooded with memories of a life I hadn't lived yet. Really, two lives I hadn't lived yet.

I don't believe in miracles, only unexplained facts.

Each of us can walk only the path he sees at his own feet. Each of us is subject to the consequences of his own belief.

The end of the world can be cozy at times.

Words are things. The words he is in possession of he cannot be deprived of. Their authority transcends his ignorance of their meaning.

I like the sound of words, but I don't ever really expect my slow, slanted impression of the world to change by what I read.

Work and pray, live on hay, You'll get pie in the sky when you die.-Joe Hill, The Preacher and the Slave

If prayer fails I am in a greater darkness yet, not knowing whether I have presumed too much or believed too little.

Presidents don't make new friends. That's why they've got to keep their old ones." Adm. Fitzwallace

[He] made me feel lonely, and being alone with another person is much worse than being alone all by yourself.

But it comes to me that two wrongs don't make another wrong.

Through this evening of sentences cut short because their completed meaning was always sorrow, of normal life dissolved to tears, the chords of Beethoven sounded serenely.

There can be no understanding without that sympathy which puts us, through the imagination, and (another's) situation.

What man wanted a woman without fire, and vice-versa?

Why was he drawn to complicated women, or were all women--all people, finally--complicated?

Change is both exciting and scary. Learning new skills is the same. Having an idea of what to expect emotionally is as important as knowing what to expect from both real and imagined limitations.

Look at me, making one of your dreams come true. You and your Norm truck driving around Normville.""You're practically a god.

Some people say Earth is the bottom level of Purgatory.' She pointed toward the floor and frowned.'I call it the top floor of Hell.

You wish for what's called wooing. This customary game, where the man shows the woman that resistance is impractical, strikes me as quite pointless.

And so their memories took on potential, which is of course how our greatest nostalgias are born.

One of my friends at the Compound has a photographic memory. Everything she ever sees, reads, or hears, she remembers forever in perfect detail.

I thought I wanted these memories, but now I realize he hardly knows me.

At its most elemental, a spell is no more than a recipe for change.

There was another thing I had forgotten about the South: It was the one place on earth where an unsuspecting person could get killed by kindness.

Beware the crazy traveller! Mind expansion can be contagious...

The rich aren't paying for luxury - they're paying for basic humanity.

Growing up, I never felt deprived. I was always happy. It seems only lately I've started seeing everything I didn't have.

I don't have to justify its awesomeness/activeness/healthiness/usefulness to anyone, because it is MINE. Not yours.

Somewhere in this latest humiliation there was a lesson in self-reliance. He'd failed so completely that he'd become his own man again.

The important thing for any writer to remember is to take the writing seriously, but not the writer.

He’s an even-tempered stallion. What he lacks in stamina he makes up for in speed, kind of like most of the men I’ve slept with.

Jim: By the way Artie. How are you going to escape?Artie: Oh, the usual way. Guile.. cunning...trickery.Wild Wild West Season 3Night of the Arrow

Karma: I know I've seen this man someplace before.Artie (as McGuffey): Considering some of the places I frequent lady that's a comprising remark!Wild Wild West TV Season 1Night of the Flaming Ghost

Count Duchamps: It's a wonder he didn't clank when he [Jim West] when he walked. (referring to all of Jim's gadgets and weaponry)Wild Wild West (TV) Season 1Night of the Two-Legged Buffalo

One has to abandon altogether the search for security, and reach out to the risk of living with both arms. One has to court doubt and darkness as the cost of knowing.

In a democracy the poor will have more power than the rich, because there are more of them, and the will of the majority is supreme. --Aristotle

The bacteriologist, often risking his life to find cures for lethal afflictions, was another kind of imperial hero, as brave in his way as the soldier-explorer.

It isn't hard to find evil in this world. Evil is always more easily imagined than good, somehow.