Barbara W. Tuchman Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
Reading the several thousand pages of Christopher Isherwood's complete journals is an instructive corrective to the prissiness of reading fiction. Isherwood had faults that we'd say were unforgiveable in a novel (he was careful to distance himself from these in his autobiographical fiction).
-
Liberal democratic states can't remain globally competitive.
-
Small change, small wonders - these are the currency of my endurance and ultimately of my life.
-
I have matured with the realization that I can live without a man!
-
Little League baseball is a very good thing because it keeps the parents off the streets.
-
One movie is only one movie. I want to have a lifetime of making films.
-
We know that for children, hunger is especially devastating.
-
I've been vegetarian for virtually all of my adult life, and I do adopt a very strict health regime.
-
I was a science fiction geek. That lets you know that they come in all sizes and styles, right?
-
As a means of contrast with the sublime, the grotesque is, in our view, the richest source that nature can offer.
-
I was so passionate about wanting the role in 'Like Crazy,' I filmed myself in the shower because that's where one of the scenes was set. It just felt instinctive. It was a close up! It would have been strange if I'd sent off a wide shot of myself. That's not the kind of work I want to do!
-
It's kind of an art, going out and performing. I'd like fans to remember me as a guy who would go out and entertain them, give them quality matches, and not just the same old garbage every week.
-
I still sleep with my baby blanket.
-
I never wanted to take the easy way, and I was always willing to hustle.
-
You know why I fear people's judgment? Because I know they're judging. I know they are.
-
The very name 'Manson' has become a metaphor for evil... He has come to represent the dark and malignant side of humanity, and for whatever reason, there is a side of human nature that is fascinated with ultimate evil.
-
When you work with somebody, either the puzzle piece fits, or it doesn't.
-
It is important to ask ourselves, as citizens, whether a world power can provide global leadership on the basis of fear and anxiety.
-
We cannot afford to lose the Medicaid funding for low-income women.
-
Design is as much an act of spacing as an act of marking.
-
Judaism’s campaign to make divinity invisible has never fully succeeded. Images are always eluding moral control, creating the brilliant western art tradition. Idolatry is fascism of the eye. The western eye will be served, with or without the consent of conscience.
-
Other people are talking about writing books about my life, or about some of the things I've done. I find it strange, but I also feel it's my life and my story, and I guess I better be the one to get it on paper the way it actually happened.
-
Chroniclers habitually matched numbers to the awesomeness of the event.
