William Bulger Famous Quotes & Sayings

The night leaned in as somehow Ruby found a way to accept that kiss and, in so doing, dipped her big toe into life. — Cynthia Bond

Changed to the elevated at the South Station, and at about twelve o'clock had climbed down the steps at Battery Street and struck along the old waterfront past Constitution Wharf. I didn't keep track of the cross streets, and can't tell you yet which it was we turned up, but I know it wasn't Greenough Lane. — H.P. Lovecraft

I am essentially very shy. Which, I guess, is why I'm very good at not being shy. — Rhys Ifans

The things that make you a functional citizen in society - manners, discretion, cordiality - don't necessarily make you a good writer. Writing needs raw truth, wants your suffering and darkness on the table, revels in a cutting mind that takes no prisoners ... — Natalie Goldberg

I would not cry. I do not cry. How bitter do you risk becoming by swallowing too many tears? — Dean Koontz

I lived in England for a long time, and even the English didn't think me as one of theirs. In America I'm not really accepted. In New Zealand now, I don't think they even think of me as a New Zealander. — Andrew Niccol

If not bliss, ignorance can at least be fun. — Carter Burwell

There is never a better measure of what a person is than what he does when he's absolutely free to choose. — William M. Bulger

Civilisation isn't a thing that you build and then there it is, you have it forever. It needs to be built constantly, recreated daily. It vanishes far more quickly than he even would have thought possible. — Steven Galloway

Sometimes, the darkness is where you find yourself. — Kandi Steiner

The artist should paint not only what he sees before him, but also what he sees within him. If, however, he sees nothing within him, then he should also refrain from painting that which he sees before him. Otherwise, his pictures will be like those folding screens behind which one expects to find only the sick or the dead. — Caspar David Friedrich