Eva Hoffman Quotes
Reading is not a project of moral improvement, but by broadening our perspective, it can make us less susceptible to the immediate seductions offered by our environment; and in the best-case scenarios, it can enlarge the scope of humane understanding, and of empathy.
Eva Hoffman
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I'm a serial dater. When I see someone I like, we go on multiple dates.
Lance Bass
NSYNC
Around my house, I won't even speak to my family unless they first address me by my official Berzerker name, Godred Crovan, Victor of Sky-Hill and Ruler of Man and the Isles. And now that I think of it, that's probably why nobody speaks to me unless it's time to feed the dogs or take out the garbage.
Zakk Wylde
Black Label Society
Thank God for the potholes on memory lane.
Randy Newman
In film, you can't go into analytical explorations because the audience will reject that.
Manuel Puig
Set religion free, and a new humanity will begin.
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
There's usually one piece in 'Vanity Fair' every month that grabs me, but when it presents hatchet jobs without substantiation to impress its liberal friends, I laugh first, then toss.
Dan Jenkins
Love is a credulous thing.
Ovid
Success begins at that magical moment when you declare to yourself, your friends, and the universe that you believe you can do something different.
Natalie Massenet
I'm not really interested in politics, because I think it's just too removed from my own life. If there's a war, though, or a disaster, I want to know what's happening.
Zhang Ziyi
No, life ends and no, there is nothing elsewhere, and no question now of ever finding again that white speck lost in whiteness, to see if they still lie still in the stress of that storm, or of a worse storm, or in the black dark for good, or the great whiteness unchanging, and if not what they are doing.
Samuel Beckett
Without calling the overall national issue a bubble, it's pretty clear that it's an unsustainable underlying pattern.
Alan Greenspan
Take this as a gift from a crone to a maiden, and know there is not so much difference between the two. For even a tottering granddam keeps a portion of girlish heart, and the youngest maiden a thread of old woman’s wisdom.
Lloyd Alexander