Payne Quotes

From all that I saw, and everywhere I wandered, I learned that time cannot be spent. It can only be squandered. ~ Roman Payne

If you have your movies so that everyone understands everything, I think that's probably not a very good movie. ~ Alexander Payne

I like action films, not exclusively, but I like Samurai films. I like Westerns. Not so much war pictures, but a few. I like kinetic cinema. ~ Alexander Payne

And that's when you learned, your top fund-raiser was a murder suspect. ~ Roy Payne

What is more, in fact, we very soon look upon the world as something whose non-existence is not only conceivable, but even preferable to its existence. Therefore our astonishment at it easily passes into a brooding over that *fatality* which could nevertheless bring about its existence, and by virtue of which such an immense force as is demanded for the production and maintenance of such a world could be directed so much against its own interest and advantage."

―from_The World as Will and Representation_. Translated from the German by E. F. J. Payne. In Two Volumes, Volume II, p. 171 ~ Arthur Schopenhauer

God is as real as a station wagon. ~ Peggy Payne

When you first open Niall [Horan]'s wallet, the first thing you see is a picture of Justin Bieber and a picture of us. ~ Liam Payne

The feather was a thing, when I was a kid, we used to find feathers around the house, and whenever we found them, my mum used to say it was my nan leaving them around for us to find, so that was quite sweet. ~ Liam Payne

She is my morning, she is my evening; we have a love that blooms over and again, more beautifully each time than the last. You will see that we are not lovers like others, for whom love is both a punishment and a gift ... Our love has never punished, only rewarded. Such love therein lies the eudaimonic life. ~ Roman Payne

We made love outdoors
Without a roof, I like most,
Without stove, to make love, assuming the weather be fair and balmy, and the earth beneath be clean. Our souls intertwined and gushing of dew. ~ Roman Payne

You are like a god, like an immortal one,' she whispered to me one night in our bed, her naked body pressed to mine, our sweat golden and glistening in the candlelight. 'Oh, my love,' I whispered back to her, 'I am more mortal than all. It seems that a part of me dies every night that I lie with you. ~ Roman Payne

My Love wakes in a puddle of sunlight.
Her hands asleep beside her.
Her hair draped on the lawn
like a mantle of cloth.
I give her my troth, for our love is whole
I sing her beauty in my soul ~ Roman Payne

I'm not ashamed of heroic ambitions. If man and woman can only dance upon this earth for a few countable turns of the sun ... let each of us be an Artemis, Odysseus, or Zeus ... Aphrodite to the extent of the will of each one. ~ Roman Payne

Somewhere I'd heard, or invented perhaps, that the only pleasures found during a waning moon are misfortunes in disguise. Superstition aside, I avoid pleasure during the waning or absent moon out of respect for the bounty this world offers me. I profit from great harvests in life and believe in the importance of seasons. ~ Roman Payne

I like voice-over in films, and most of my films have been voice-over films. ~ Alexander Payne

I've still got both kidneys, but one doesn't work, so I have to be careful not to drink too much, even water, and I have to keep myself as healthy as possible. ~ Liam Payne

The artist's greatest creation began
the night he washed his memory of his failures
rubbed opium on his lips
drank the wine that women offered him
and lay down and wept. ~ Roman Payne

I didn't hesitate to kiss my father in public. And that's how I tried to raise my children. We're physical. ~ Payne Stewart

A girl without braids is like a mountain without waterfalls. ~ Roman Payne

In today's competitive business world, it is not enough to do your job well; no, to be truly effective, you have to develop skills and strategies for things you'll never have to do, and situations that will never come up. ~ Rob Payne

Did he really forget what it's like to be a teenager? We're hardly a team. It's more like survival of the fittest. ~ Mary Jennifer Payne

There's a bizarre insistence on how a story should be. 'The protagonist must be sympathetic!' they say. Whatever that means. I never engage in that discussion. I never use that word, 'sympathetic.' I just know 'interesting.' ~ Alexander Payne

Indeed, there is nothing on this earth more peaceful than a sleeping, purring cat. ~ Jonathon Scott Payne

Who is better off? The one who writes to revel in the voluptuousness of the life that surrounds them? Or the one who writes to escape the tediousness of that which awaits them outside? Whose flame will last longer? ~ Roman Payne

He found Podrick Payne asleep in a chair outside the door of the solar, and shook him by the shoulder. "Summon Bronn, and then tun down to the stables and have two horses saddled." (Tyrion).
The squire's eyes were cloudy with sleep. "Horses". (squire)
"Those big brown animals that love apples, I'm sure you've seen them. Four legs and a tail. But Bronn first." (Tyrion) ~ George R R Martin

Teaser from the soon to be released: Redemption of Fire; My Demon Master Book 2. (with Reference to the character, Cain, from Dormant Desires, Book 4; CAIN.

In the oddest, surreal moment, I look out and see one lone face. It's Cain, the chimera by curse and not birth. He's been welcomed into Demon-kind as one of them. Almost a treasured being for all his uniqueness. In all reality, he is the most divine among us. The product of an angel and a Neanderthal. A very son of the first Eve. It is he alone who is not prostrate before me. Our eyes lock and my vision goes wonky. I can see details and colors and etched outlines like I never imagined. I see Cain's magnificent aura as it embraces him like a full-body halo. He is watching the spectacle that is me with detached interest. It's as if he has truly seen everything there is too see and this is nothing more than a repeat of some long forgotten original episode. He is unafraid. I can feel how calm he is. Before he drops his eyes, surrendering to the dominance of my dragon, he gives me a slightly amused expression and a small nod of encouragement. ~ Payne Hawthorne

His soul really shone in the dark desperation of our prison ... [Bonhoeffer] had always been afraid that he would not be strong enough to stand such a test but now he knew there was nothing in life of which one need ever be afraid. ~ Payne Best

If you're not making epic, archetypal films on some level, I think you're wasting a great potential of cinema. ~ Alexander Payne

If a friend hasn't been sacked, blackmailed or beaten half to death, they probably aren't a friend ~ Roxanne Payne

Fuel-efficient my big engine is not. I drove 38 miles and burned through more than a quarter-tank of expensive premium gas. Every time I accelerated I could sense a Saudi Arabian somewhere was smiling. ~ C.D. Payne

It is safe to say that the Teton Range is as breathtaking as any mountain landscape one could ever see. ~ Stefanie Payne

This thing is for the game of golf, yeah, but trust me, the Europeans don't have that mentality. ~ Payne Stewart

Being unique is highly over rated. ~ Rob Payne

As Master Payne escorted her to the waiting coach, a small frown crossed her face. "People keep giving me rings," she confided to him, "But I think a small death ray might be more practical. ~ Phil Foglio

I'd just like to be able to walk outside as everyone does and enjoy time with my friends, not feel bad for not wanting to take a picture. ~ Liam Payne

After the long time of going together and the mutual trust that had grown out of that time, Payne had occasion to realize that no mutual trust had grown out of the long time they had gone together. ~ Thomas McGuane

A girl without braids is like a city without bridges. ~ Roman Payne

In my errant life I roamed
to learn the secrets of women and men,
of gods and dreams.
I lived in wealth and poverty,
in fame and calamity.
I saw every country of our world,
I lived a thousand lives.
Many lives I spent, other lives I squandered,
for in my life I never traveled, all I did was wander. ~ Roman Payne

She called herself an angel, and wandered the world from girlhood till death. She lived every kind of life and dreamt every kind of dream. She was wild in her wandering, a drop of free water. She believed only in her life and in her dreams. She called herself an angel, and her god was Beauty. ~ Roman Payne

Vicars, MPS and lawyers were amont those who considered me to be the best hostess in London. ~ Cynthia Payne

When I'm shooting, I don't care who the star is. I have an actor playing a part, and I'm serving the script, not serving anyone's career. ~ Alexander Payne

For a while, I think in 1994, it got to where I didn't want to practice. ~ Payne Stewart

Womankind always seems to be able to see a dozen steps into the future, far ahead of what men are able to see. And they have strength where we do not. ~ Roman Payne

Wine gives one 'ideas,' whereas champagne gives one 'strategies. ~ Roman Payne

I'd be a birthday cake! ~ Liam Payne

He was no god, he was just an artist; and when an artist is a man, he needs a woman to create like a god. ~ Roman Payne

All that I desire in life are three ...
A wilderness: A beach on the sun-drenched sea,
A puff of opium,
And thee. ~ Roman Payne

Nothing we are told, nothing we read prepares us for the feelings we have as a new parent holding our baby, and knowing that we also hold their life in the balance. ~ Kim John Payne

The youthful body untouched decays the fastest, for no living hands record its splendor; and here youth and time are wasted. ~ Roman Payne

I'm not perfect.
Never have been.
Never will be.

~ Louis Tomlinson ~ Louis Tomlinson

It's not that we have to leave this life one day, it's how many things we have to leave all at once: holding hands, hotel rooms, wine, summertime,
drunkenness, and the physics of falling leaves, clothing, myrrh, perfumed hair, flirting friends, two strangers' glance; the reflection of the moon, with words like, 'Soon' ... 'do you
want me?' ... '...to lie enlaced' ... 'and sleep entwined' thinking ahead, with thoughts behind...?' Ô, Why!
Why can't we leave this life slowly? ~ Roman Payne

The actors are the greatest executors of tone in a film. They're the most important cinematic component. ~ Alexander Payne

Life was good.
The sun setting on a sweet summer's day, the smell of freshly mowed lawns, the sounds of children playing--
A house across the river, on the Jersey-side. A beautiful wife and a baby girl.
The American Dream come true.
[Honey, I'm home!]
But dreams have a nasty habit of going bad when you're not looking.
---
Max Payne 1 ~ Sam Lake

A glorious death would be in my
final breath to take before I die, to hear
one final time on my belovèd's mouth
the sound of her eternal sigh. ~ Roman Payne

All I want in this life are three...
a moonlit beach on the starlit sea,
a breath of opium,
and thee. ~ Roman Payne

The dance had distilled her and she had become one with the essence of all that is. ~ Holly Lynn Payne

I don't believe there are readers and non-readers; I believe there are those who've found the right books and those who haven't--yet! ~ C.C. Payne

It hurt a little that she looked happy to see me, when I only came to break her. ~ Lyla Payne

I think all old folk's homes should have striptease. If I ran one I'd have a striptease every week. ~ Cynthia Payne

When I look back at the 1980s I pinch myself. Did I really do all that? ~ Cynthia Payne

There are hours for rest, and hours for wakefulness; nights for sobriety and nights for drunkenness - (if only so that possession of the former allows us to discern the latter when we have it; for sad as it is, no human body can be happily drunk all the time). ~ Roman Payne

To be original one needs to learn the ideas of other painters in order to be different from them. ~ Edgar Alwin Payne

There are heroes and, emphatically, heroines enough in this history. Yielding to the temptation to focus on their courage, however, may miss the point. Part of the legacy of people like Ella Baker and Septima Clark is a faith that ordinary people who learn to believe in themselves are capable of extraordinary acts, or better, of acts that seem extraordinary to us precisely because we have such an impoverished sense of the capabilities of ordinary people. ~ Charles M. Payne

A book suggests a whole world and story that I could have never thought of in a million years. ~ Alexander Payne

I'm afraid you're going to break me, Quinn."
"Don't let me." The challenge in his eyes intensified, heating up and pouring strength into me. "Don't you let me fucking do that, Emilie. Don't let anyone break you. You're stronger than that. ~ Lyla Payne

The tragedy of Dionysus: Wear a black robe at night, and white you'll wear by morning; but wear a purple robe to the midnight feast, and when you wake you'll dress in black to mourn your soul deceased. ~ Roman Payne

Yes, in a woman, looks are the most important thing... But it's not how she looks 'to' us, so much as 'how she looks at' us. ~ Roman Payne

The artist should always be the student. ~ Edgar Alwin Payne

The Jews got together to protect him. And I'll prove it. ~ Roy Payne

I don't think it's healthy to take yourself too seriously. ~ Payne Stewart

My life is ticking away one subway token at a time - a never ending pirouette of arriving and departing, pushing through turnstiles, nodding goodbye and hello. In eight hours I'll be allowed to turn around and go home. ~ Rob Payne

I'm so not interested in producing, other than doing my own work, producing my own films. I only do it as favors, for other people to get their films made. ~ Alexander Payne

I was angry at myself for my inclination to vice. I longed for the day when a state of frenzy would lead my mind to sober pasture, just as it had for Saint Augustine. I longed for the day when the love of one woman would be sacred enough to forget all the rest. ~ Roman Payne

If you have ever wanted to visit somewhere completely wild – away from services, roads, people, and all signs of humanity – head to Gates of the Arctic National Park and Preserve, one of Earth's last true wilderness places. ~ Stefanie Payne

My life is a stage without a curtain or an exit ~ Roxanne Payne

There was no world, no land, no god or heaven or earth outside of their two bodies naked and trembling in the act of love. ~ Roman Payne

That's how I like to do it with actors, have them really go for it and I'll tell them when it's too much. It's always easier to bring it back then to push it further. ~ Alexander Payne

Even if we die at 100, we're still dying young. I want at least 700 years. There's a lot of travelling and books to read and movies to see. I'm not going to squeeze it all in in 85 years. ~ Alexander Payne

When she was a child, my love carried a road-map in her hand the way other girls carried handkerchiefs. She always knew the way. Her feet were little wings. And her beautiful head was a compass. ~ Roman Payne

Looking back on my life, I sigh. The caprice of youth goes with the wind, I've no regrets. ~ Roman Payne

Favoring 'resolution' the way we do, it is hard for us men to write great love stories. Why?, because we want to tell too much. We aren't satisfied unless at the end of the story the characters are lying there, panting. ~ Roman Payne

I don't read magazines much, and I have an awful time with books. ~ Payne Stewart

It's the in-between, the sustenance, not just the gears and bolts that make a human. When you forget to find out how the person was built - the oil, chemistry, and the craft - you miss all the beauty. ~ Piper Payne

Visions from the gods are gifts alone for those who wander. ~ Roman Payne

My life is never stable. It' as if I balance on a series of tectonic plates like the ones under the Pacific Ring of Fire. ~ Mary Jennifer Payne

You are perfect for a female."
"Not where I come from."
"Then they're using the wrong standard. ~ J.R. Ward

You must give everything to make your life as beautiful as the dreams that dance in your imagination. ~ Roman Payne

Answer me one thing," her twin said.
"What."
"Do you love the bas - him. Do you love him?"
Payne looked back through the glass at the human on the bed. "Yes. I am in love with him. And if you try to dissuade me by the fact that I have not lived yet enough to judge, I say unto you . . . fuck off."

-Vishous & Payne ~ J.R. Ward

Badgers swarm out of the sand;
Talk and walk, don't run or stand.
Pritaries bite and bite again;
Kick and shout and run like wind."

Payne checked the small clock again. "Aye," he cut in. "Black Wolf never did get that last verse right. What she should have said was, 'Pritaries like to bite your ass; best to run away real fast. ~ Tara K. Harper

My biographer said that my parties reminded them of a vicarage tea party, with sex thrown in. ~ Cynthia Payne

Panting, he looked into a face he couldn't see. "What the fuck is your problem?"
"I'm bored." With that, she head-butted him right in the goddamn nose. ~ J.R. Ward

I'm trustworthy and true and a whole of other positive words that start with T. ~ Rob Payne

Please don't throw phones. They hurt. And we sell them on eBay. ~ Liam Payne

Why do we mortals wonder if it is through 'human chaos' or through 'divine perfection' when the world guides us to some magical event? In either case, is not the result the same? Is the result not 'divine perfection? ~ Roman Payne

I would have played any character in an Alexander Payne movie. ~ Judy Greer

Family is not disparate relationships between individuals and machines, in separate rooms of a house. Childhood is not a race to accumulate all of the consumer goods and stresses of adulthood in record time. Simplification signals a change and makes room for transformation. It is a stripping away that invites clarity. ~ Kim John Payne

I never want to go back to how, I didn't feel before. ~ Payne Hawthorne

There has to be a better use for titanium than golf clubs. ~ Rob Payne

I very rarely saw Tom Kite around. I've talked to Tom about it. I don't think Michael Jordan needed to be on the captain's cart with Kite; he needed to be walking in the gallery, supporting them from outside the ropes. ~ Payne Stewart

All forms of madness, bizarre habits, awkwardness in society, general clumsiness, are justified in the person who creates good art. ~ Roman Payne