It’s nice being friends over a period of time with people whose music you like so much, or other filmmakers, seeing people change, go through trials. Noah Baumbach Read Quote
Economics is not an exact science. It’s a combination of an art and elements of science. And that’s almost the first and last lesson to be learned about economics: that in my judgment, we are not converging toward exactitude, but we’re improving our data bases and our ways of reasoning about them. Paul Samuelson Read Quote
It’s not a good idea to put your wife into a novel; not your latest wife anyway. Norman Mailer Read Quote
My mother was a Book of the Month Club devotee. I remember she always looked forward to Pearl Buck’s books. Valerie Harper Read Quote
I usually try to go for meals that aren’t heavy when I’m playing for a long time. I’ll try to stay away from carbing up too hard – so I avoid pastas. Ninja Read Quote
The rate of human invention is faster, and the rate of cultural loss is slower, in areas occupied by many competing societies with many individuals and in contact with societies elsewhere. Jared Diamond Read Quote
To achieve the very pinnacle of good taste, the neoclassicists wrote their plays entirely in alexandrine verse, a rarefied meter that is uniquely tailored to the French language and fits no other. Florence King Read Quote