A football player is often bigger than a basketball player – more massive, that is. The basketball player is taller and more slender. So it is with redwoods. The tallest redwoods are often slender, and so they aren’t the largest ones. Richard Preston Read Quote
While I know some women who are stunningly sanguine when they’re pregnant, I dissolve into a total mess. What normally appears sturdy turns fragile: the economy, the climate, humanity’s baseline social contract. Lauren Groff Read Quote
Putting on a movie is like going to war – for me, at least. It’s all about time; time is money, and we don’t have it. So it’s all about getting to know each other intimately quickly. You are with family members that you like or don’t like, but you can’t leave them because you’re stuck with them. Lee Daniels Read Quote
You have to decide what kind of story you’re going to tell. For instance I would argue a movie like ‘Toy Story 3,’ which isn’t realistic at all, is really emotional and involving. It just depends. I played this game called ‘Superbrothers: Sword & Sworcery EP’ for iPad that is totally old school 8-bit, which I found very moving. David S. Goyer Read Quote
Any decision to use lethal force against a United States citizen – even one intent on murdering Americans and who has become an operational leader of al-Qaida in a foreign land – is among the gravest that government leaders can face. Eric Holder Read Quote
Back of every creation, supporting it like an arch, is faith. Enthusiasm is nothing: it comes and goes. But if one believes, then miracles occur. Henry Miller Read Quote
Even now, there are young actors who want careers as romantic leading men, and the best thing is not to reveal you’re gay. Ian Mckellen Read Quote
For notes related to books I’m writing, I’ve wondered whether I should organize my notes better, but I do find that the action or scrolling through them and seeing odd juxtapositions of ideas helps to stimulate my own ideas and creativity. I worry that if I kept the notes in a highly-structured way, I might lose some of these benefits. Gretchen Rubin Read Quote
It is true that we are weak and sick and ugly and quarrelsome but if that is all we ever were, we would millenniums ago have disappeared from the face of the earth. John Steinbeck Read Quote
