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- There's a certain kind of conversation you have from time to time at parties in New York about a new book. The word "banal" sometimes rears its by-now banal head; you say "underedited," I say "derivative." The conversation goes around and around various literary criticisms, and by the time it moves on one thing is clear: No one read the book; we just read the reviews.
- Anna Quindlen (1953 - )
- I think that anyone who comes upon a Nautilus machine suddenly will agree with me that its prototype was clearly invented at some time in history when torture was considered a reasonable alternative to diplomacy.
- Anna Quindlen (1953 - )
- The good you do today, people will often forget tomorrow; Do good anyway.
- Mother Teresa (1910 - 1997)
- If God is watching us, as some believers suggest, as though we were a television show and God had a lot of free time, the deity would surely be bemused by how dumbed-down devotion has sometimes become in this so-called modern era. How might an omnipotent being with the long view of history respond to those who visit the traveling exhibit of a grilled-cheese sandwich, sold on eBay, that is said to bear the image of the Virgin Mary? It certainly argues against intelligent design, or at least intelligent design in humans.
- Anna Quindlen (1953 - ), Newsweek, 01-02-06
- Or what about the statue in California currently said to be crying bloody tears? Why worry about the alleged weeping of a plaster effigy when so many actual human beings have reason to cry?
- Anna Quindlen (1953 - ), Newsweek, 01-02-06
- Leadership is communicating to people their worth and potential so clearly that they come to see it in themselves.
- Stephen Covey, the 8th habit
- Knowing what you can not do is more important than knowing what you can do. In fact, that's good taste.
- Lucille Ball (1911 - 1989)
- Beyond happiness or unhappiness, though it is both things, love is intensity; it does not give us eternity but life, that second in which the doors of time and space open just a crack: here is there and now is always.
- Octavio Paz (1914 - )
- My show is my statement. What I have to say is on the screen. My life is my own. I don't want to talk about my private self. Why should I?
- Flip Wilson (1933 - 1998)
- Photography, fortunately, to me has not only been a profession but also a contact between people - to understand human nature and record, if possible, the best in each individual.
- Nickolas Muray
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