What I hope in my ideal world is that with each project, I’ll either get to work with a really great script that would force me to grow, or work with a really great actor who will make me better. Laura Linney Read Quote
It is foolishly thought by some that democratical constitutions will not, cannot, last; that the States will quarrel with each other; that a king, or at least a nobility, are indispensable for the prosperity of a nation. Marquis de Lafayette Read Quote
My time in Weimar Berlin was the most elegant in my life. I would have parties for a hundred people – writers, scientists, artists. Eva Zeisel Read Quote
As much as the Pulitzer is the hallmark of journalism, I think what I love the most is when somebody says they took my column and it’s in their wallet. I have had people open their wallet and show me a corner of a column. Regina Brett Read Quote
But we cannot rely on memorials and museums alone. We can tell ourselves we will never forget and we likely won’t. But we need to make sure that we teach history to those who never had the opportunity to remember in the first place. Dan Rather Read Quote
Sometimes I try to concentrate on the story I would like to write, and I realize that what interests me is something else entirely, or, rather, not anything precise but everything that does not fit in what I ought to write. Italo Calvino Read Quote
I’ve been fortunate in that I never actually read any Jane Austen until I was thirty, thus sparing myself several decades of the unhappiness of having no new Jane Austen novels to read. Cathleen Schine Read Quote
We do not learn by inference and deduction and the application of mathematics to philosophy, but by direct intercourse and sympathy. Richard M. Nixon Read Quote
