Mark Helprin Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
Money opens up wonderful worlds of possibilities.
-
You have no power at all if you do not exercise constant power.
-
I mean, I was always interested in people like Lenny Bruce, people who are breaking the old rules and making new ones.
-
The whole world is starting to realize that it was the most unwise thing for our society to have ignored women power, to run the society with male priorities.
-
It is not important what Rahul Gandhi thinks, its important what a billion Indians think.
-
An ordinary kitten will ask more questions than any five-year-old.
-
I think of myself as a performance artist. I hate being called a pop star. I hate that.
-
I've written a screenplay that is a series of monologues and songs; they form this sort of human tapestry across time and place. The form is strange, but I find it really fascinating.
-
I'm like all parents who try to shelter their children.
-
I was raised a Christian. I'd like to think I have Christian values. I don't attend church.
-
When I am in Egypt, I am along for the ride - I am a privileged outsider, but an outsider nonetheless.
-
If any human being is to reach full maturity both the masculine and feminine sides of the personality must be brought up into consciousness.
-
We should seek to cooperate with Europe, not to divide Europe to a fictitious new and a fictitious old.
-
Be soft, even if you stand to get squashed.
-
I'm not a good Samaritan, I'm a businessman... The goal is to read and react. If we sign an artist that has potential for a shelf life way out in the distance, then we'll stay. But if not, then we won't.
-
The United States is a strong and ardent ally of Israel. The fact of the matter is that friends can disagree. I think what's important is that world leaders are able to sit down with one another, have frank conversations and move forward.
-
You can be aware of the passing of time without being nostalgic.
-
It is very difficult to get legislation passed. But then the danger always is that you have no power at all if you do not exercise constant power.
-
We really believe in the earnings. We're very proud that often we do well in the down market. But you know, there are some markets where they just lose liquidity, like 2001, 2008.
-
Burgundy makes you think of silly things; Bordeaux makes you talk about them, and Champagne makes you do them.
-
I think good radio often uses the techniques of fiction: characters, scenes, a big urgent emotional question. And as in the best fiction, tone counts for a lot. But a lot of effective and interesting radio is based on one character who reacts to the world.
-
But at a time when our discourse has become so sharply polarized - at a time when we are far too eager to lay the blame for all that ails the world at the feet of those who think differently than we do - it's important for us to pause for a moment and make sure that we are talking with each other in a way that heals, not a way that wounds.
-
We realized that the only persons we can truly trust in this world is each other and our families.
-
As much as I love art, there is no art as fine as the world we have been given.
