All Quotes

From Ernest Hemingway's stories, I learned to listen within my stories for what went unsaid by my characters.
‐‐ Nadine Gordimer

From even the greatest of horrors, irony is seldom absent.
‐‐ H. P. Lovecraft

From every ancient source, we have testimony to Cleopatra's irresistible charm, as Plutarch has it, to her ability to speak many languages including, as he puts it, the language of flattery and essentially, to be able to turn people to her will - really a great political genius, in that respect.
‐‐ Stacy Schiff

From everything I can read about Aussie spiders, it seems like all they really like doing is hiding in your house or garden or car until you 'accidentally' disturb them - probably by doing something crazy like putting on the shoe they are lurking in - and they can officially bite you to pieces.
‐‐ John Niven

From exam grading to health education to professional training to democratic participation, paths towards self-realization and success in the world are often daunting and obscure: journeys only the privileged feel confident setting off along.
‐‐ Tom Chatfield

From fanaticism to barbarism is only one step.
‐‐ Denis Diderot

From fifth grade on, I worked at our public library. The pay, a pittance, was almost superfluous. All through high school, I looked forward to summer as the time when I could work at the library four or five days a week. I was never a camp counselor, a lifeguard, a scooper of ice cream.
‐‐ Julia Glass

From first to last the civilization of America has been bound up with its physical environment.
‐‐ Ellsworth Huntington

From folk to tribal to Cab Calloway, Cole Porter, Gershwin to the Rolling Stones, whose first record was all covers, to country-western, bebop, blues, and even the referencing in classic hip hop to cliched love ballads of the '80s or whatever - that is kinda gone, and that's just terrifying to me.
‐‐ Cat Power

From food trucks to hot dog stands to county fair favorites, 'street food' has enjoyed a rich and storied history in American cuisine. However, street food has been around for thousands of years. In fact, street food is believed to have originated as far back as Ancient Rome.
‐‐ Homaro Cantu

From Fred Astaire I learned discipline and hard work.
‐‐ Dirk Benedict

From fully funding nutrition programs to protecting children from liquid nicotine poisoning, I have focused many of my efforts in Congress on advocating for polices that invest in our most valuable resource - our children.
‐‐ Elizabeth Esty

From George Washington to George W. Bush, presidents have invoked God's name in the performance of their official duties.
‐‐ Linda Chavez

From Graham Greene, I learnt how to be an accessible writer who grapples with our doubts as sentient individuals.
‐‐ Douglas Kennedy

From heav'nly thoughts all true delight doth spring.
‐‐ Thomas Campion

From her first superheroine role in 'Lara Croft: Tomb Raider' - which earned $275 million globally in 2001, back when that was real money - Jolie has been the one actress who can stand up to any male star and stare him down.
‐‐ Richard Corliss

From here, it becomes an engineering problem; the engineer considers the ground motion that will occur and evaluates the requirements of the proposed structure in the light of the local foundation conditions.
‐‐ Charles Francis Richter

From here it sounds great to say we'll all get together soon, but all I know is this: you can call me fifty days or fifty years from now and I'll be glad to see you.
‐‐ Richard Hooker

'From Here to Eternity' happens to be fourteen-carat entertainment. The main trouble is that it is too entertaining for a film in which love affairs flounder, one sweet guy is beaten to death, and a man of high principles is mistaken for a saboteur and killed on a golf course.
‐‐ Manny Farber

From heresy, frenzy and jealousy, good Lord deliver me.
‐‐ Ludovico Ariosto

From high school, you can see my Sierra Club card - I've been a member since 1979. That gives you an indication of early interest.
‐‐ Mike Quigley

From his first hours as pope, Francis has re-enacted or spoken of the great pastoral transformation of Vatican II as his own agenda.
‐‐ Eugene Kennedy

From infancy, I had been accustomed to hear pro and con discussions of slavery and the American Civil War. Although the British government finally decided not to recognise the Confederacy, public opinion in England was sharply divided on the questions both of slavery and of secession.
‐‐ Emmeline Pankhurst

From infancy, I have relied on the fiercely sweet spirits of black men; and this is abundantly clear in my work.
‐‐ Alice Walker

From infancy on, we are all spies; the shame is not this but that the secrets to be discovered are so paltry and few.
‐‐ John Updike

From initial concept to final build, 'Train' was close to a year in development. Much of this was research and letting the dynamics of the project come to the surface.
‐‐ Brenda Brathwaite

From inside where I live, I feel like I just perceive events in a certain rational way. I often find it sad or poignant, and it may not make me laugh a bit. But I don't mind inventing a portrait that allows others to laugh if that's what they want to do.
‐‐ Madeline Kahn

From Italy, I'd get calls from cousins and aunts saying, 'I don't think you should act. It's really tough. What are the chances?' This was around the time 'Flashdance' came out, and I was like, 'What about your dreams? I'm a maniac.'
‐‐ Enrico Colantoni

From its beginning, fan fiction has been written mostly by women. Originally, this was because of a dearth of interesting female characters in conventional sci-fi.
‐‐ Russell Smith

From its brilliancy everything is illuminated.
‐‐ Guru Nanak

From its earliest days in the nineteenth century, and until the Holocaust, the Orthodox rabbinate in eastern Europe was not enthusiastic about the Zionist movement, which at the time was led by irreligious Jews.
‐‐ Elliott Abrams

From its earliest days, stem cell research has been important to the people of Wisconsin.
‐‐ Ron Kind

From its humble origins in college dorm rooms, social media has quietly crept into the boardroom.
‐‐ Ryan Holmes

From its inception by Michael Bennett, 'Dreamgirls' has always been an epic story with an ensemble cast. I didn't change that. The screen version remains, really, a group story.
‐‐ Bill Condon

From its inception, South Vietnam was only considered to be an outpost in the war against communism.
‐‐ Nguyen Cao Ky

From Japan to Thailand, I keep discovering amazing talent, cuisine and food markets.
‐‐ Daniel Boulud

From Jefferson to Jackson to Lincoln to FDR to Reagan, every great president inspires enormous affection and enormous hostility. We'll all be much saner, I think, if we remember that history is full of surprises and things that seemed absolutely certain one day are often unimaginable the next.
‐‐ Jon Meacham

From Jesse James to Charles Manson, the media, since their inception, have turned criminals into folk heroes.
‐‐ Marilyn Manson

From journalism I learned to write under pressure, to work with deadlines, to have limited space and time, to conduct and interview, to find information, to research, and above all, to use language as efficiently as possible and to remember always that there is a reader out there.
‐‐ Isabel Allende

From Julia Child to 'The Galloping Gourmet' and the Food Channel and Cooking Channel, our fascination with the spectacle of cooking has been a mainstay of TV entertainment.
‐‐ Chuck Norris

From Kelsey, I have learned among many other things the value of turning on a dime and how you can have an extremely funny and extremely poignant moment with absolutely no separation in between... and sometimes in the same moment.
‐‐ David Hyde Pierce

From kindergarten to graduation, I went to public schools, and I know that they are a key to being sure that every child has a chance to succeed and to rise in the world.
‐‐ Dick Cheney

From kings to groundlings, Shakespeare made his work profound for everybody. That is how it should be. There is no hierarchy in theatre. It makes everyone part of a collective.
‐‐ Lee Hall

From labour health, from health contentment spring; contentment opes the source of every joy.
‐‐ James Beattie

From leading the world into the age of democracy to spearheading the technological revolution, America has always been at the forefront of greatness.
‐‐ Charles B. Rangel

From lies to forgeries the step is not so long, and I have written technical essays on the logic of forgeries and on the influence of forgeries on history.
‐‐ Umberto Eco

From making documentaries all these years, it doesn't feel right to lead someone. In narratives, I'm always trying to shoot as though it's really happening, and I trust my actors are going to make decisions that I'm going to be following. I want to follow them.
‐‐ Derek Cianfrance

From medieval tapestries, we know that slingers were capable of hitting birds in flight. They were incredibly accurate.
‐‐ Malcolm Gladwell

From Michael Jackson to Peggy Lee, I like it all.
‐‐ Cyrille Aimee

From middle age on, there's nothing more vital to your health and weight control than building lean muscle mass, and the only way that happens is with weight training and exercise.
‐‐ Suzanne Somers