James Wolcott Quotes
I never accepted why there should be some invisible, wavy cutoff line separating Great Fiction from phosphorescent beauties and dollhouse miniatures, novels that contain a whole world in a snow globe.James Wolcott
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I sort of write onstage. I'll throw an idea out there, like Home Depot, and just start talking about it.
Harland Williams -
Nonviolent tactics can move into action on our behalf men not naturally inclined to act for us.
Barbara Deming -
My dad is extremely successful, so I've seen the money and luxury growing up. I'm nowhere close to his stature.
Ram Kapoor -
I think there are ways to get so caught up in your career and being so heavy and dramatic, and everyone wants to be a tortured genius.
Laura Dern -
I don't want to say anything because I know I am unable to protect you from the harm that I see.
Camille Claudel -
It's time to face facts: Most people stop being environmentalists when they sit down to eat.
Ingrid Newkirk
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A big thing that gets people in trouble in the kitchen is not reading the recipe from start to finish before you cook it. Before you start anything, read through the entire recipe once.
Gail Simmons -
I don't know how to make Harper and Alloy want me, not just my name.
L. J. Smith -
Religion is the possibility of the removal of every ground of confidence except confidence in God alone.
Karl Barth -
English usage is sometimes more than mere taste, judgment and education - sometimes it's sheer luck, like getting across the street.
E. B. White -
The vegetable life does not content itself with casting from the flower or the tree a single seed, but it fills the air and earth with a prodigality of seeds, that, if thousands perish, thousands may plant themselves, that hundreds may come up, that tens may live to maturity; that, at least one may replace the parent.
Ralph Waldo Emerson -
Censorship is never over for those who have experienced it. It is a brand on the imagination that affects the individual who has suffered it, forever.
Nadine Gordimer
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I have no ill will about anything.
Pablo Sandoval -
I think New York audiences are some of the brightest in the world, and certainly the most enthusiastic.
Ian Mckellen -
If I were to pray in Arabic, I'd pray to Allah. If I were to pray in English, I'd pray to God.
Rabih Alameddine -
The way we're attached to our phones these days, they buzz and twitch in our pockets, and we have to look and see if it was a text, a voicemail, or an e-mail. We're almost like lab rats. I tried to eschew the whole cell phone theory until I had kids; then, I had to be reachable at all times.
Eddie Vedder Pearl Jam -
Often they benefit who suffer wrong.
Ovid -
Albanians are a nation of freedom fighters who know something about living under oppression.
Fatos Nano
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I don't expect anybody to know who I am.
Nathan Fillion -
I grew up around guys and got along with them better.
Tionne Watkins TLC -
You can't build a society without law.
Naftali Bennett -
I have given you the power of choice, and you only alternate Between futile speculation and unconsidered action.
T. S. Eliot -
Some books are serials, not to be mistaken for anything else. 'The Two Towers,' for example, ought never to be read in isolation.
Edward M. Lerner -
I never accepted why there should be some invisible, wavy cutoff line separating Great Fiction from phosphorescent beauties and dollhouse miniatures, novels that contain a whole world in a snow globe.
James Wolcott