Mark Helprin Quotes
I wrote a great deal of a novel, 'Winter's Tale,' on the roof of a Brooklyn Heights tenement on Henry Street. I was a technical climber, and now and then I would put down my manuscript and get up to walk along parapets and climb walls and chimneys.
Mark Helprin
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In social matters, pointless conventions are not merely the bee sting of etiquette, but the snake bite of moral order.
Florence King
The level of dynamism is a matter of how fertile the country is in coming up with innovative ideas having prospects of profitability, how adept it is at identifying and nourishing the ideas with the best prospects, and how prepared it is in evaluating and trying out the new products and methods that are launched onto the market.
Edmund Phelps
Poor people have more fun than rich people, they say; and I notice it's the rich people who keep saying it.
Jack Paar
Every actor wants to do a love story, and courtesy T-Series, I got to do two back-to-back.
Yami Gautam
Mutual fund managers want your money in their funds. They get paid based on assets under management.
Barry Ritholtz
I use the music to vent, and a lot of the stuff that I am writing about or was writing about contained a lot of anger and anxiety, stress and depression, so that's how the album came out so dark.
Vanilla Ice
Webs are made mostly of spaces. They break easily. They barely exist. They belong to the category of half-things: mist, smoke, shrouds, ghosts, membranes, retinas or rags; and they quickly fill up with un-things: old legs and wings and heads and hollow abdomens and body bags of wasps.
Alice Oswald
If I have committed any culinary atrocities, please forgive me.
Ted Allen
You don't always do the same things you've done the night before. That's what makes playing live so interesting as opposed to being in the studio.
Mick Jagger
The Rolling Stones
My main wish is to get my books into other people's rooms, and to keep other people's books out of mine.
Samuel Butler
Frankly, I love 'Scream': I think it's one of the great scary/funny movies.
Jay Chandrasekhar
I wrote a great deal of a novel, 'Winter's Tale,' on the roof of a Brooklyn Heights tenement on Henry Street. I was a technical climber, and now and then I would put down my manuscript and get up to walk along parapets and climb walls and chimneys.
Mark Helprin
