Tennis Court Oath Famous Quotes & Sayings

Buddah says once you understand that you are lost and you have to find your own way and there is no help coming, you become responsible. Prayer is irresponsible. To pray is just to avoid responsibility, to pray is to be lazy. To pray is just an escape. Buddha says effort is needed. It is an insult to pray. — Osho

And any man who must say 'I am king' is no true king at all. — George R R Martin

If it is true that we need a degree of certainty to get by, it is also true that too much of the stuff can be lethal. — Terry Eagleton

My "heart". Does that pitiful organ still represent anything? It lies motionless in my chest, pumping no blood, serving no purpose, and yet my feelings still seem to originate inside its cold walls. My muted sadness, my vague longing, my rare flickers of joy. They pool in the center of my chest and seep out of there, diluted and faint, but real. — Isaac Marion

I won't work on anyone's else's script. I won't write for anyone else. I write my own stuff and make that when the time is right. — Martin McDonagh

A moderate silence ensued. A neutral-to-slightly-positive silence. True, silence is still silence, except when you think about it too much. — Haruki Murakami

I suppose it's possible that a writer would have feeling for his characters, but I can't see how, because writing is such a meticulous, intricate, technical business. I wish I could say that I love my characters and that frequently they take over the book and run away with the plot and so on. But they don't exist. — John Banville

If you have never found yourself, the best place to look is in your loneliness, and rock-bottom is even better. — Bryant McGill