John Barth Quotes
Nothing is intrinsically valuable; the value of everything is attributed to it, assigned to it from outside the thing itself, by people.
John Barth
Quotes to Explore
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It's for scientists to lay out the data and lay out what they think, and then it's for the public to make up its own mind. We don't live in a priesthood where some small group imposes its views on other people - that's not the way that science works, and it's not the way a democratic society should work.
Venkatraman Ramakrishnan
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Life does not owe me a shred.
Valerie Harper
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Even though I am the daughter of a poet, and my stepmother is also a poet, growing up, I didn't think I could understand poetry; I didn't think that it had any relevance to my life, the feelings that I endured on a day-to-day basis, until I was introduced to the right poem.
Natasha Trethewey
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I grew up thinking there was something called 'independent film,' which I wouldn't necessarily have had access to if there wasn't Sundance.
Ira Sachs
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My writing is a very authentic journey of discovery. I'm going out there to learn who I am. My readers, consequently, take the same journey as my protagonist.
Ted Dekker
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Big Business can make laws as easily as it can break them - and with as little impunity.
Ralph Chaplin
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Some of the craziest people I've met, in my life, are some of the most brilliant people I've met.
Katee Sackhoff
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Actors should never be important. Only directors should have power and place.
D. W. Griffith
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If you look around us, there are an awful lot of men out there, and women, but mostly men, who believe that they have got a fast-track path to Heaven, if they do the things that they believe God is telling them to do, and I don't just mean Islamic people. I mean Fundamentalist Christians.
James Purefoy
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If by chance people would still offer me roles, I'd still like to do them. But if not, that's OK.
Emmanuelle Riva
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The happier and more stress-free you are, the more people will want to be around you and the more your friends will respect you.
Gabrielle Bernstein
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Nothing is intrinsically valuable; the value of everything is attributed to it, assigned to it from outside the thing itself, by people.
John Barth
