Barry Malzberg Quotes
"Events," I say to the Captain, "events control our lives, although we have no understanding of them nor do they have any motivation. Everything is blind chance, happenstance, occurrence; in an infinite universe anything can happen. After the fact we find reasons.
Barry Malzberg
Quotes to Explore
It's very juicy to twirl your mustache and figure out why people do the horrible things that they do. It's not just because they are evil, but because that's how they somehow explain the world to themselves and justify themselves. It's always interesting figuring out how that happens.
Zeljko Ivanek
When I was a kid in Michigan, I used to play ball with a town team on Sunday. Of course, I'd go to church first. Played the church organ, as a matter of fact.
Larry MacPhail
You always need that spark of imagination. Sometimes I'm midway through a book before it happens. However, I don't wait for the muse to descend, I sit down every day and I work when I'm not delivering lambs on the farm.
Barbara Kingsolver
You get to a point where you really can't manage more artists, because representing artists takes a lot of time.
Larry Gagosian
I'm constantly trying to keep people guessing as to what I'm doing, and I will spend enormous amounts of time looking at manuscripts and asking questions, and people will say, 'I know what his next book is about.'
Dan Brown
Try as you will, you cannot annihilate that eternal relic of the human heart, love.
Victor Hugo
Look, we play the Star Spangled Banner before every game. You want us to pay income taxes, too?
Bill Veeck
What you find with singers, no matter where they're from, if they have any kind of an accent, the accent tends to disappear when they sing.
Jason Alexander
Success is not achieved by winning all the time. Real success comes when we rise after we fall. Some mountains are higher than others. Some roads steeper than the next. There are hardships and setbacks but you cannot let them stop you. Even on the steepest road you must not turn back.
Muhammad Ali
They are not only idle who do nothing, but they are idle also who might be better employed.
Socrates
When I walk onto a set, no matter what it is, I always do the very best work that I can. But I'm not braindead, and I want to do things that I want to do, you know?
Jonathan Banks
"Events," I say to the Captain, "events control our lives, although we have no understanding of them nor do they have any motivation. Everything is blind chance, happenstance, occurrence; in an infinite universe anything can happen. After the fact we find reasons.
Barry Malzberg
