O. R. Melling Quotes

Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.

I have thin skin. I'm not a tough guy.

I bruise easily so be gentle when you handle me.

Deference often shrinks and withers as much upon the approach of intimacy as the sensitive plant does upon the touch of one's finger.

But I, being poor, have only my dreams; I have spread my dreams under your feet; Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.

I do have a delicate side.

Men are very delicate. They don't like being rejected.

If something touches me, I cry. That's it. I'm a bit raw, a bit rubbish, really. Often, a director will say to me, 'I don't think this is a scene where your character cries.' And all I can say is, good luck with that!

I'm tender on the inside.

Oh, I've always been very... Emotional. 'Hypersensitive' is what they call it, I think.

I am very sensitive and get emotional.

As a filmmaker, I'm interminably curious and nosy, but certain times you meet people and think, 'I don't want to push you too hard because I can see this is painful for you.'

Dear God," she prayed, "let me be something every minute of every hour of my life. Let me be gay; let me be sad. Let me be cold; let me be warm. Let me be hungry...have too much to eat. Let me be ragged or well dressed. Let me be sincere - be deceitful. Let me be truthful; let me be a liar. Let me be honorable and let me sin. Only let me be something every blessed minute. And when I sleep, let me dream all the time so that not one little piece of living is ever lost.

Men have feelings too, you know. You bruise the petals of my manflower.

We are symbolic. We are driving to the edge of the city and talking in vague-yet-resolute certainties about our dreams and our futures. We are leaving certain things in the medicine cabinet. We are falling in love.

In love and friendship the imagination is as much exercised as the heart; and if either is outraged the other will be estranged. It is commonly the imagination which is wounded first, rather than the heart,--it is so much the more sensitive.

Sometimes I wish I could walk around with a HANDLE WITH CARE sign stuck to my forehead.

We're all so damned fragile.

Jeezum—humans were like eggshells.

I find at moments I'm as fragile as glass.

No matter how smart she appeared, she was fragile at her core.

I think every one of us dreams, and we know what the quality of a dream is. In many ways, the reason dreams are so - mine are a little bit nightmarish, is that it's when you're really naked and can really face the things you don't face in reality, your darkest anxieties.

The imagination is of so delicate a texture that even words wound it.

Waking up from a dream of violence is much the same as waking up from a dream of love. You must go on living your life.

All the great things that I get to be curious about, see, and experience because I'm sensitive to the world, it also opens up these areas where there's a lot of pain and suffering. You're just aware, aware, aware.