Elizabeth Wein Quotes
Stars poked through like holes in the cloth of the sky and shed no light on anything.
Quotes to Explore
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In those years of the Fifties, in London and New York, I lived, without knowing it, in a time when the profoundest changes were happening: when a radical alteration was getting ready to happen in the way a society saw young girls. And, as a consequence, in the way they saw themselves.
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The loss of life will be irreplaceable.
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We develop our propensity to forgive or not to forgive by what we see illustrated at the early ages of our development.
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Forget not, O Lord, that I am one of those whom Thou hast created, and with Thine own blood hast redeemed. I repent me of my sins: I will strive to amend my ways.
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If you don't learn to laugh at troubles, you won't have anything to laugh at when you grow old.
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I never saw movies I was in because my mom told me that would be prideful, being stuck on yourself.
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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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It is always your next move.
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I got picked for very unique and independent filmmaking experiences with auteurs. And I'm so lucky.
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Yesterday ended last night. Today is a brand-new day.
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We always see the point of an iceberg. So I've always accepted the idea that people - they don't necessarily know everything I am.
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The cry for the national home for the Jews does not make much appeal to me. The sanction for it is sought in the Bible and the tenacity with which the Jews have hankered after return to Palestine. Why should they not, like other peoples of the earth, make that country their home where they are born and where they earn their livelihood?
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Corruption does not so much rot the masses: it poisons Congress. Credit-Mobilier and money rings are not housed under thatched roofs: they flaunt at the Capitol. As usual in chemistry, the scum floats uppermost.
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The threat of hunger cannot be eliminated without the assistance of the developed countries, and this requires significant changes in their foreign and domestic policies.
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Without consciousness and intelligence, the universe would lack meaning.
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Yet still to choose a brat like you, To haunt a man of forty-two, Was no great compliment!'
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I don't want to sound like an aesthete, but one has to be true to the art. And that means being true to the tradition of the art but also being true to your own artistic vision.
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I grew up in the age of radio where we just went wherever the jobs were available. The job doing afternoons at Z100 was, funny enough, the only job I could find.
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The last thing I do before bed is think I should take my contacts out. Then I fall asleep.
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A small venue is so much more intimate and loose. You can actually be more spontaneous, I feel.
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This is the problem of all great revelations: their significance so often exceeds the frame of our comprehension. We understand only after, always after. Not simply when it is too late, but precisely because it is too late.
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The uncommon man has done the impossible and there has been that much more light in the world because of it. Children respond to heroes by thinking creatively and sometimes in breaking beyond the bounds of the impossible in their turn, and so becoming heroes themselves.
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I really love middle-grade. Middle-grade books have a little more of a magical, light-hearted feel. You can be a little bit more quirky, you can have a little more humor. It doesn't get so dark and deep.
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Stars poked through like holes in the cloth of the sky and shed no light on anything.
