Do you remember a scene with Ryan and Ali playing in the snow? Well, that was improvised.


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ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER
Laughter and weeping, the Greek masks of comedy and tragedy, mark the extremes of a continuous spect...
ARTHUR KOESTLER
The omission of an expected conjunction is called an asyndeton. Caesar is supposed to have sa...
ARTHUR QUINN
Style, is like a frog: you can dissect the thing, but it somehow dies in the process.
ARTHUR QUINN
Language becomes a prison house only poets can escape...if we do not reject any strict distinctions ...
ARTHUR QUINN
The word of man is the most durable of all material.
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER
Natural abilities can almost compensate for the want of every kind of cultivation, but no cultivatio...
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER
One evening I sat Beauty on my knees --And I found her bitter --And I reviled her.
ARTHUR RIMBAUD
The present is the only reality and the only certainty.
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER
People of Wealth and the so called upper class suffer the most from boredom.
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER
That is a very good question. I don't know the answer. But can you tell me the name of a classical G...
ARTHUR MILLER
Rascals are always sociable -- more's the pity! and the chief sign that a man has any nobility in hi...
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER
Socialism is a vast machine for churning out piles of goods marked Take it or leave it.
ARTHUR SELDON
Creative activity could be described as a type of learning process where teacher and pupil are locat...
ARTHUR KOESTLER
True creativity often starts where language ends.
ARTHUR KOESTLER
Hatred comes from the heart; contempt from the head; and neither feeling is quite within our control...
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER
Conscience has nothing to do as lawgiver or judge; but is a witness against me if I do wrong, and wh...
ARTHUR PHELPS
A man can do what he wants, but not want what he wants.
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER
Because people have no thoughts to deal in, they deal cards, and try and win one another's money. Id...
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER
I love her too, but our neuroses just don't match.
ARTHUR MILLER
The man never feels the want of what it never occurs to him to ask for.
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER
The fence around a cemetery is foolish, for those inside can't get out and those outside don't want ...
ARTHUR BRISBANE
The alchemists in their search for gold discovered many other things of greater value.
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER
Fame is something that must be won. Honor is something that must not be lost.
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER
The longer a man's fame is likely to last, the longer it will be in coming.
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER
He's not the finest character that ever lived. But he's a human being, and a terrible thing is happe...
ARTHUR MILLER
It is in the treatment of trifles that a person shows what they are.
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER
A man's face as a rule says more, and more interesting things, than his mouth, for it is a compendiu...
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER
It is only at the first encounter that a face makes its full impression on us.
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER
Wicked thoughts and worthless efforts gradually set their mark on the face, especially the eyes.
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER
Experience is the key to greatness.
ARTHUR WILLIAMS
I saw that all beings are fated to happiness: action is not life, but a way of wasting some force, a...
ARTHUR RIMBAUD
A man's delight in looking forward to and hoping for some particular satisfaction is a part of the p...
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER
I believe that I am in hell, therefore I am there.
ARTHUR RIMBAUD
Cheerfulness, sir, is the principle ingredient in the composition of health.
ARTHUR MURPHY
Hatred is a thing of the heart, contempt a thing of the head. Hatred and contempt are decidedly anta...
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER
Great men are like eagles, and build their nest on some lofty solitude.
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER
Honor has not to be won; it must only not be lost.
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER
The ultimate foundation of honor is the conviction that moral character is unalterable: a single bad...
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER
If people insist that honor is dearer than life itself, what they really mean is that existence and ...
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER
Just like those other black holes from outer space, Hollywood is postmodern to this extent: it has n...
ARTHUR KROKER
If one looks with a cold eye at the mess man has made of history, it is difficult to avoid the concl...
ARTHUR KOESTLER
A man of genius can hardly be sociable, for what dialogues could indeed be so intelligent and entert...
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER
A man of talent will strive for money and reputation; but the spring that moves genius to the produc...
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER
Genius is an intellect that has become unfaithful to its destiny.
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER
It's the niceties that make the difference fate gives us the hand, and we play the cards.
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER