For presidential power to meaningfully expand, it is not enough for a president to simply make a power grab. Ross Douthat Read Quote
I often say television is not a job for grown men. You go to a set, they pick out your clothes for you, they tell you where to stand, what to say, and your chair has your name on it in case you can’t find a place to sit. Danny Bonaduce Read Quote
Great literature should do some good to the reader: must quicken his perception though dull, and sharpen his discrimination though blunt, and mellow the rawness of his personal opinions. A. E. Housman Read Quote
I can’t change the past, and I don’t think I would. I don’t expect to be understood. I like what I’ve written, the stories and two novels. If I had to give up what I’ve written in order to be clear of this disease, I wouldn’t do it. Harold Brodkey Read Quote
I even get inspired by movies that aren’t very good, because there’s always something good in movies that are collectively thought of as a failure. There’s good in everything, I find. Steven Spielberg Read Quote
I think that Tupac was the trendsetter, the high mark. What we hope his music will continue to do is to at least encourage people away from mediocrity, because he was not a mediocre artist. When he was alive, people competed. There was a lot of competition, and a lot of the artists were better for it. Afeni Shakur Read Quote
When you’re at a big team like Liverpool, you can’t expect to start every game. Kolo Toure Read Quote
Writing isn’t a job so much as a compulsion. I’ve been writing since I was very young because for some strange reason, I must write, and also because when I write, I feel more alive and closer to the world than when I’m not writing. Siri Hustvedt Read Quote
