Virginia Woolf Quotes
I like books whose virtue is all drawn together in a page or two. I like sentences that don't budge though armies cross them.
Quotes to Explore
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But... watching Steven Barnes taught me to treat my life like an art form.
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There is a humanitarian impulse that one aspires to and there are days when one doesn't do it very well.
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All my books are optimistic!
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There might be 1 finger on the trigger, but there will be 15 fingers on the safety catch.
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Politics is a herd mentality. Politicians don't really lead. Politicians reflect what they think is consensus opinion.
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Switzerland is a place where they don't like to fight, so they get people to do their fighting for them while they ski and eat chocolate.
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Everyone should play their role in tearing down the wall of hatred.
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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.
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In Europe and the United States, you've got different systems to select candidates, and no system is perfect.
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I admire all people who are trying to be a good power in this chaotic world.
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War used to be something you could stand on the nearby hill and watch. Now we have total war; everybody's in it. We have total economics as well. Everything affects everybody. The Malaysian currency shakes, and people around the world are seriously affected.
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For us Indians, I don't think English can ever exude that magic of emotions which our mother tongue can.
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The current prohibition laws are forcing drug disputes to be played out with guns in our streets. We need to put a stop to this criminal drug element in our country.
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I love Canada. Canada is a great neighbour. Canada has been a great friend and neighbor for many, many years.
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From the first instant I met her, I wanted to be Nora Ephron. I just really wanted to please her.
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I was trying to be Mary Tyler Moore. I loved her in 'The Dick Van Dyke Show.'
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You don't get happy by sitting around going on, 'Oh this is a horrible situation, what to do?' You've got to find the courage to change that. I think change is extremely hard for people.
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Right away when I got to college, I realized that being a politician sucks. It's really hard! It wasn't for me. B.J. Novak is convinced that I will run for mayor of Chicago at some point. He begs me to do it. It'd be a tough gig, but I was always very attracted to the idea of helping people and trying to make the city a better place.
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The so-called paradoxes of an author, to which a reader takes exception, often exist not in the author's book at all, but rather in the reader's head.
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When you're in a different place every day, there's this kind of madness that sets in.
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Usual messages from the heads of the establishment. The Queen from Windsor, the Pope from Rome: Pilate and Caiaphas celebrating the birth of Christ.
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We know a great deal about the configuration of the menorah from the biblical book of Exodus. Beaten out of solid gold, the ancient candelabrum boasted six branches emerging from a seventh, its central shaft. The menorah was adorned with golden buttons, cups, and flowers.
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They really stayed together, which you have to do on the road.
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I like books whose virtue is all drawn together in a page or two. I like sentences that don't budge though armies cross them.
