Harry Emerson Fosdick Quotes
Every failure can be considered as a tragedy or a chance to learn something. The latter is healthier...
Quotes to Explore
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The truth about people at every economic level of life is you get those who are kind and who are not, those who are greedy, whether they be rich or poor. That's a common thread through humanity on any street you go to.
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I want to stay alive. Yeah, I want to stay alive. I think that's the main thing. If there's a chance I can live longer, I want to do it.
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Making films is my hobby. It relaxes me; it is my life, and it's one of the best jobs in the world. I go to work and solve problems, fight robots, kill aliens, and kiss beautiful women. I'm a very lucky man.
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The shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no recipe for living that suits all cases.
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If 'Airplane!' comes on, it's like a comfort film. You can always guarantee a laugh watching that movie.
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Under Hitler it was the entrepreneurial and professional classes who were the first victims of Nazi boycotts and exclusion. Today it is Israel, the most powerful symbol of Jewish national resurgence in two millennia.
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I was lucky. My parents and teachers provided me with a wonderful and secure childhood where I always knew I was loved, valued, and listened to.
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When people are poor, they find ways of making things taste like fish.
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One of the best parts of being a writer means that researching all kinds of cool stuff actually counts as work!
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The thought that all experience will be lost at the moment of my death makes me feel pain and fear... What a waste, decades spent building up experience, only to throw it all away... We remedy this sadness by working. For example, by writing, painting, or building cities.
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If uncovering the truth is the greatest challenge of nonfiction writing, it is also the greatest reward.
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Obama's ascendancy unhinged the radical right, offering a unified target to competing camps of racial, nativist and religious animus.
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When I found somebody who I fell in love with, it made me feel different than I felt the rest of the day. It was electrifying. That's what inspired the 'Off to the Races' melodies. That's one of the times when you're feeling electrified by someone else and they make you happy to be alive.
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My wife and I volunteer for the Guide Dog Foundation, and we have two giant labs.
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Eagles come in all shapes and sizes, but you will recognize them chiefly by their attitudes.
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Conflict is the pursuit of truth.
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There isn't an aspect of book creation I don't enjoy, and there has always been a book in my life to dream about or work on.
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If a guy is skilled at anything, that's attractive. There's something very primal about that and, sure, it can be as simple as figuring out the tip quickly. It's really cool when a guy tips 20 percent quickly and effortlessly so that when the check comes, he opens it and signs his name and done.
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What the altar-bound of today end up buying from their numberless vendors is a dog's breakfast of bridal excess - part society wedding of the twenties, part Long Island Italian wedding of the fifties. It's The Philadelphia Story and The Wedding Singer served up together in one curious and costly buffet.
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I'm signing the letter that says, let's be quiet when he gets his award and just sit there. I think it's very sad that this man is being honored and the people he destroyed are never going to have a chance to be honored.
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Zemlinsky, who was to be on the panel of judges, played through the first few for Schoenberg and, finding them “wonderful and truly original,” agreed with him that, regrettably, “precisely on that account they would have little chance of winning the prize.”
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The only bridge I've ever burned along this legacy I dance is the one that linked the cities of prosperity and chance.
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Every failure can be considered as a tragedy or a chance to learn something. The latter is healthier...
