Harold Brodkey Quotes
Memory, so complete and clear or so evasive, has to be ended, has to be put aside, as if one were leaving a chapel and bringing the prayer to an end in one's head.
Harold Brodkey
Quotes to Explore
When I was 11, I realised that I did not have to live the life my mother had: school, marriage, children, apartment, summer house.
Maj Sjowall
I distrust Great Men. They produce a desert of uniformity around them and often a pool of blood too, and I always feel a little man's pleasure when they come a cropper.
E. M. Forster
I personally don't like to rehearse so much. I really sort of trust my instinct.
Carice van Houten
I write 'Broad City,' so I connect it to me.
Ilana Glazer
I've never cared for the idea of a career path, or where a film might 'take me.' My love is for acting not money, so I only take on roles that I find challenging, in stories I find interesting.
Gael Garcia Bernal
No eulogy is due to him who simply does his duty and nothing more.
Saint Augustine
With honesty of purpose, balance, a respect for tradition, courage, and, above all, a philosophy of life, any young person who embraces the historical profession will find it rich in rewards and durable in satisfaction.
Samuel E. Morison
I like hip-hop, but I don't like concerts. There's, like, sweat on people's backs.
T. J. Miller
One of the biggest problems with the modern feminist movement is its failure to bring men along with us.
Tammy Bruce
If you're going to sell stock and somebody wants to buy it at a price and that price is not a price you dictate, but demand dictates, sell it to them now.
Barry Diller
I worked with HBO on 'Recount,' and we had a wonderful experience together. I'm such a fan of HBO and how much flexibility they give in character as well as schedule.
Laura Dern
My career is a journey for me, and any journey is incomplete without the struggle.
Yami Gautam
Making a big Hollywood film that really affects people is as hard as making a small movie on a credit card.
Cameron Crowe
Wars are indeed fought by children, by young people who have little to say in where they are sent to die.
Jeff Shaara
Of course, violence will not end with our combat mission. Extremists will continue to set off bombs, attack Iraqi civilians and try to spark sectarian strife. But ultimately, these terrorists will fail to achieve their goals.
Barack Obama
Memory is not an instrument for exploring the past but its theatre. It is the medium of past experience, as the ground is the medium in which dead cities lie interred.
Walter Benjamin
If I could have one prayer answered, I would pray for patience. I move so fast sometimes. I try to slow down.
Debra Winger
Memory, so complete and clear or so evasive, has to be ended, has to be put aside, as if one were leaving a chapel and bringing the prayer to an end in one's head.
Harold Brodkey
