Virginia Woolf Quotes
If Shakespeare had never existed, he asked, would the world have differed much from what it is today? Does the progress of civilization depend upon great men? Is the lot of the average human being better now that in the time of the Pharaohs?
Quotes to Explore
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I want to see sunrises in the mountains. You never get to see such things enough in a lifetime. I want to see more.
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I felt audiences are happier to take comedy people who play darker people because there's a link between the psychosis of comedy and the psychosis of being a twisted character.
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As you probably know, I've written a lot about the presidency, so it's obviously exciting when you get to interview a president and write about it.
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My Southern heritage is a big part of who I am. I grew up around people who seemed like characters but are actual, real people. My grandmother made sure I had manners and all that stuff.
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One of the banners I would put up in front of any American president and new administration is 'Do not overreact to your predecessors' policies.'
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There's never really been a real hood Christmas movie.
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The day you stop learning and creating must be the most boring day.
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Information of fundamental importance to the general problem of atomic structure has resulted from systematic studies of the cosmic radiation carried out by the Wilson cloud-chamber method.
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We earned our dollars in a hard way;, nobody gave us a feast or gave it on a plate. We worked hard and we have innovated; we have made things in a better way at a cheaper rate and gave it to the people of India.
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Sometimes you surf well and still don't win. It happens to everyone. You learn that one big score doesn't mean much if you don't have a backup. I guess every rookie learns that as time goes by. I took some big lessons from my losses.
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I follow the universe; I follow G-d. G-d made the sun, and the sun shines on everyone.
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Sometimes when you're making more errors you want to pull back, but I just need to keep going forward.
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I believe if more American children read the Ten Commandments and are taught what they mean, they will predictably engage in less crime.
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A writer is someone who tells you one thing so someday he can tell his readers another thing: what he was thinking but declined to say, or what he would have thought had he been wiser. A writer turns his life into material, and if you're in his life, he uses yours, too.
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There are so many stories from the Midwest that should be told. L.A. tells one story, and it's often about itself.
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My parents, Gary and Patricia, let me be in my world. They never told me what I couldn't do. It helped me adapt in a positive way.
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Labor has a proud history of tackling discrimination and introducing important social reform.
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I think eating in itself is the act of great sensuality, so all you have to do is point the camera in the right direction.
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Obama likes to quote great men but will never be a great man himself. I can't stand it when our leader goes around apologizing for who we are.
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Real breakthroughs are not found because you want to develop some new technology, but because you are curious and want to find out how the world is.
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Poetry offers works of art that are beautiful, like paintings, which are my second favorite work of the art, but there are also works of art that embody emotion and that are kind of school for feeling. They teach how to feel, and they do this by the means of their beauty of language.
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'I think the Holy Grail is a dream that men have, a dream that the world can be made perfect. And if it existed, then we'd all know the dream can't come true.'
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Parties weaken themselves by their fear of capable men.
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If Shakespeare had never existed, he asked, would the world have differed much from what it is today? Does the progress of civilization depend upon great men? Is the lot of the average human being better now that in the time of the Pharaohs?
