Cathleen Schine Quotes

a letter ... changes utterly the moment it slips inside an envelope. It stops being mine. It becomes yours. What I mean is gone. What you understand is all that remains.

Cathleen Schine

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• It's interesting to know how much you are worth.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • You
  • Interesting
  • Know

• The stopwatch doesn't lie. The tape measure doesn't lie.

  

  Daley Thompson
  • Lie
  • Measure
  • Tape

• Baking is my pastime. I just love creating things. But it's not what I want to do for a living. Acting is what I want to do.

  

  Ed Oxenbould
  • Acting
  • Living
  • Creating

• I had decent but not great grades in high school because I was highly motivated in some subjects, like the arts, drama, English, and history, but in math and science I was a screw-up. Wooster saw something in me, and I really flourished there. I got into theatre, took photography and painting classes.

  

  J. C. Chandor
  • Up
  • Great
  • School

• There was a space program before there was integrated circuits.

  

  Jack Kilby
  • Space
  • Before
  • Space Program

• I was 19 years old, pumping gas and going nowhere. I was kind of a high school dropout at that point because I had left school to play hockey, but no one drafted me.

  

  Adam Oates
  • School
  • High
  • Hockey

• Coming from TV and film, rule number one is that you always service the main character first and foremost. If that's not working, you've got nothing.

  

  J. Michael Straczynski
  • Character
  • Always
  • Service

• I've never left China. My family's been there for 600 years. But my architecture is not consciously Chinese in any sense. I'm a western architect.

  

  I. M. Pei
  • Family
  • Years
  • Chinese

• You can't write about an iconic Hollywood star of the sixties without bumping up against Elizabeth Taylor.

  

  Taylor Jenkins Reid
  • Up
  • Star
  • Write

• Ever since my childhood, I had seen my father carrying so many bags- suitcases with false bottoms , leather satchels or overnight bags, even those black briefcases that gave him a false air of repectability…. And I never knew just what was in them. ( 52 )

  

  Patrick Modiano
  • Father
  • Black
  • Air

• He 'the male' is trapped in a twilight zone halfway between humans and apes, and is far worse off than apes, because he is, first of all, capable of a large array of negative feelings that the apes aren't - hate, jealousy, contempt, disgust, guilt, shame, disgrace, doubt - and, secondly, he is aware of what he is and isn't.

  

  Valerie Solanas
  • Hate
  • Doubt
  • Twilight

• Algunas cosas se hacen tan nuestras que las olvidamos.

  

  Antonio Porchia

• Some women have said, 'Gee, here I am getting involved with this fat guy, what will people think of me?' But they were converted and sometimes surprised.

  

  Daniel Pinkwater
  • People
  • Women
  • Guy

• I love eating it - grilled chicken, pasta, rice, and other foods that give me long term energy. Every once in a while, my sweet tooth gets the best of me and I have to snack on some candy. Beverage wise, I stick to sports drinks, water, milk, and juice.

  

  Derrick Rose
  • Long
  • Energy
  • Water

• Your job as a producer is to make suggestions without putting your ego in front of everything else. Also, I think you want to focus on that artist's best qualities and really highlight them.

  

  Adam Schlesinger
  • Job
  • Focus
  • Ego

• I love a good suit.

  

  Martin Freeman
  • Good

• Much that we read of Russia is imagination and desire only.

  

  Agnes Smedley
  • Desire
  • Imagination

• It is just physics - who can argue with Newton and the first law of thermodynamics?

  

  Mark Hyman
  • Law

• When golden moments come, when God enables one really to pray without words, who but a fool would reject the gift?

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • God
  • Words
  • Moments

• The most beautiful of altars, he said, is the soul of an unhappy creature consoled and thankfing God.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • God
  • Creature
  • Altars

• In misfortune, which friend remains a friend?

  

  Euripides
  • Friend
  • Remains
  • Misfortune

• Until one has loved an animal, a part of one's soul remains unawakened.

  

  Anatole France
  • Love
  • Soul
  • Animal

• When I work with countries struggling to pay for budgets or finance trade deficits, I reflect on how Americans do not spend a moment considering the unique advantages of being able to issue bonds and print money freely.

  

  Robert Zoellick
  • Country
  • Moments
  • Struggle

• a letter ... changes utterly the moment it slips inside an envelope. It stops being mine. It becomes yours. What I mean is gone. What you understand is all that remains.

  

  Cathleen Schine
  • Moments
  • Gone
  • Letters