The human voice: mysterious, spontaneous, primal. For me, the human voice is the vessel on which all emotions travel – except perhaps jealousy. And the breath, the breath is the captain of that vessel. Claron McFadden Read Quote
If the future, as imagined in literature, is really the present taken to extremes, then the past is also the present, but boiled down. Walter Kirn Read Quote
Louis Pasteur said, ‘Chance favors the prepared mind.’ If you’re really engaged in the writing, you’ll work yourself out of whatever jam you find yourself in. Michael Chabon Read Quote
You sometimes have a very innovative company, and if they come up with one idea, they can come up with many more – if they’re successful. If they can’t feed themselves, you lose that creativity. Lonnie Johnson Read Quote
Savage Inequalities’ was about school finance, and ‘Amazing Grace’ primarily dealt with medical and social injustices in New York. But with ‘Ordinary Resurrections,’ I had no predetermined agenda. When I met with the children, I was not in pursuit of any line of thinking. In our conversations, I let them lead me where they wanted to go. Jonathan Kozol Read Quote
The work I did in Vertigo meant nothing if no one cared about the movie. Luckily, Vertigo had a revival and people had begun to recognize there was something special and it gained in reputation. But it just as well could have ended up rotting in film cans somewhere. Kim Novak Read Quote
Through machinery, man can exert tremendous powers almost as fantastic as if he were the hero of a fairy tale. Through machinery, man can travel with an ever increasing velocity; he can fly through the air and go beneath the surface of the ocean. Maria Montessori Read Quote
Until we make campaigns affordable, then we’re going to have too many members of Congress out rattling the cup with special interest groups. Dick Durbin Read Quote
It’s going to you know, I can’t go out there and shoot par and win. Everybody is playing well, and I think you’ll have to go out tomorrow and have 4, 5, 6 under par probably. Raymond Floyd Read Quote
