I consider myself very fortunate to grow up in a time when my family, my friends don’t look at me funny because I’m a 29-year-old single woman. Christie Hefner Read Quote
The Holocaust survivor who knows Auschwitz through the experience of suffering observes it all from the perspective assigned to him. He keeps silent or gives interviews to the Spielberg Foundation, he accepts the compensation payments promised him after a fifty-year delay, or, if he is prominent, he makes a speech in the Swedish Academy. Imre Kertesz Read Quote
It is the mass dream of inverted self, populous with fears overt and secret, that forms the continuous but gossamer thread upon which are strung as phantom beads all civilizations from the remotest past of record to that of the present day and hour. Louis Sullivan Read Quote
One geometry cannot be more true than another; it can only be more convenient. Geometry is not true, it is advantageous. Robert M. Pirsig Read Quote
When people asked me what I was going to do when I grow up, I always said, ‘I’m going to be a writer. I’m going to write screenplays. I’m going to write books. I’m going to write plays. That’s what I’m going to do.’ Mara Wilson Read Quote
Strangely, I have a huge aversion to movies that try to teach healthy people an abusive lesson about the darkness in the world. Patty Jenkins Read Quote
I think it’s a very powerful notion, the notion that our personal views, although closely held, are not necessarily right. That part of what is noble is making sure there are checks and balances and a plurality of opinions. Lisa Joy Read Quote
