All Quotes

In a place like the Greek Theater in L.A., to try and create a close connection with the audience seems almost antithetical to the architecture of the building.
‐‐ Alex Ebert

In a play, a man comes out and says something. Another man comes out and says something. And by the end of the night, we've learned something we didn't know, In a musical, there is singing and dancing for two hours, but you've got to know everything in 5 minutes. Do it in those 5 minutes or you'll lose them.
‐‐ Maury Yeston

In a play, the director is God, and I'm a great arguer. Rather boringly so, I think, about trying different things.
‐‐ Felicity Kendal

In a play, you dictate pace, you dictate rhythm, you dictate when people look at you, when people should be looking at something else. In film, the editor does that.
‐‐ Oscar Isaac

In a play, you know where you start and end and all the stops you have to do, but in television, you can't construct this carefully planned out arc for your character. You often get a script and you're shooting it two days later, and you don't know what's going to happen next. It's one of the harder things that I've done.
‐‐ Caitlin Fitzgerald

In a play, you only get one chance, and you have to get it perfect. In a film, you can change and fix it whatever way you want, so really, there's a pretty big difference.
‐‐ Kara Hayward

In a poem the excitement has to maintain itself. I am governed by the pull of the sentence as the pull of a fabric is governed by gravity.
‐‐ Marianne Moore

In a poem, the words happen; they just come. I let them. Otherwise, I wouldn't write. To interfere with what is happening is to distort the poem. Just a very small degree of intelligence and supervision is necessary. Very tactful. Any revision later that violates the text as it came, that begins rewriting the words, is fake.
‐‐ Louis Dudek

In 'A Poetics of Optics,' Equi writes that 'all images bank on alchemy.' This idea captures her fundamental sense of poetry as turning common material into something rare and valuable.
‐‐ Floyd Skloot

In a politically diverse nation, only by finding that common ground can we achieve results for the common good.
‐‐ Olympia Snowe

In a polling conducted by the Wall Street Journal, 11 out of 12 Americans said they oppose the taking of private property, even if it is for public economic good.
‐‐ Jim Ryun

In a Ponzi scheme, a promoter pays back his initial investors with money he has raised from new investors. Eventually, the promoter can no longer find enough new investors to pay off the people who have already put up money, and the scheme collapses.
‐‐ Alex Berenson

In a popular medium, you're going to get loads of stuff that is trite, but there'll also be some really special moments.
‐‐ Kate Bush

In a portrait, you have room to have a point of view and to be conceptual with a picture. The image may not be literally what's going on, but it's representative.
‐‐ Annie Leibovitz

In a portrait, you have room to have a point of view. The image may not be literally what's going on, but it's representative.
‐‐ Annie Leibovitz

In a position of utter desolation, when man cannot express himself in positive action, when his only achievement may consist in enduring his sufferings in the right way - an honorable way - in such a position man can, through loving contemplation of the image he carries of his beloved, achieve fulfillment.
‐‐ Viktor E. Frankl

In a post-9/11 world, diversity has become even more important.
‐‐ Jane Harman

In a pre-Internet world, sovereignty over our physical freedoms, or lack thereof, was controlled almost entirely by nation-states.
‐‐ Rebecca MacKinnon

In a pre-YouTube world, and in the beginning of the YouTube world, it was more personality-based and centered around very simple content.
‐‐ Benny Fine

In a presidential campaign, you can't lie. You can't hide what you are and what you want. You can't hide what kind of President you'll be. You can't keep on talking about nothing indefinitely and committing to nothing, you can't keep running away from debate, masking the challenges.
‐‐ Nicolas Sarkozy

In a prime-time address, President Bush said he backed limited federal funding for stem cell research. That's right, the President said, this is a quote, the research could help cure brain diseases like Alzheimer's, Parkinson's, and whatever it is I have.
‐‐ Conan O'Brien

In a private room he showed me the first specimens of gold, that is he was not certain if it was gold or not, but he thought it might be; immediately I made the proof and found that it was gold.
‐‐ John Sutter

In a professional kitchen, the idea is to have your cooks not moving much while they're cooking. You want them to stay in the same spot.
‐‐ Eric Ripert

In a progressive country change is constant; change is inevitable.
‐‐ Benjamin Disraeli

In a psychiatric hospital, a lot of people believe that people on TV are talking to them directly through the screen. I'm with about 500 of these people, and I'm on TV every Friday night. As I was queuing up for breakfast one morning, one guy nearly jumped out of his skin. My first thought was to go 'Woooo!'
‐‐ Paul Merton

In a pure capitalist system, an institution as moronic and corrupt as Bank of America would be swiftly punished by the market - the executives would get to loot their own firms once, then they'd be looking for jobs again.
‐‐ Matt Taibbi

In a rational society we would want our presidents to be teachers. In our actual society we insist they be cheerleaders.
‐‐ Steve Allen

In a real dark night of the soul, it is always three o'clock in the morning, day after day.
‐‐ F. Scott Fitzgerald

In a real sense, people who have read good literature have lived more than people who cannot or will not read. It is not true that we have only one life to live; if we can read, we can live as many more lives and as many kinds of lives as we wish.
‐‐ S. I. Hayakawa

In a real-world way, my gifts are very limited in terms of what I can do.
‐‐ Sherman Alexie

In a recent decision of the Supreme Court, not made, however, by the full court, and concurred in by only four justices, it was held that the seller of a patented mimeograph could bind the purchaser to use only his ink in the machine, though the ink was not patented.
‐‐ John Bates Clark

In a recent Valentine's Day posting on her fan website, Britney Spears says that - oh, who cares?
‐‐ Amy Poehler

In a recession, people want to be told for two hours that everything is going to be OK. They want to escape from their humdrum or painful reality into a feel-good drama, or a love story that transcends their daily life.
‐‐ Alison Owen

In a recession, you must be able to call into question everything you've done before.
‐‐ Francois-Henri Pinault

In a region with a growing population, if you're doing nothing, you're losing ground.
‐‐ Stewart Udall

In a regular theatre, you'd be kind of moving your eye from one character 5 feet over to the right on the cut. In IMAX, suddenly that's like 20 feet. So I would love to do something. I think I would really want to take the massive screen into consideration so that it would be done properly.
‐‐ Pete Docter

In a rehearsal room, your real resource as an actor aren't the things around you; your resources are your imagination and your director and the other actors. In those close quarters, your imagination and your skills are what you turn to.
‐‐ Stephen Lang

In a relationship each person should support the other; they should lift each other up.
‐‐ Taylor Swift

In a relationship I'm a very loving person, emotional and sensitive.
‐‐ Olivia Wilde

In a relationship, it's important to make each other laugh. To give each other freedom, support each other and be proud of each other.
‐‐ Caroline Winberg

In a relationship, the sum of your parts should equal more than just you by yourself. He needs to bring something new and different to the table to up the ante.
‐‐ Chelsea Handler

In a relationship, when does the art of compromise become compromising?
‐‐ Sarah Jessica Parker

In a relationship when things are really great you don't need to say anything and just enjoy the other person. Sometimes with a couple, it gets dark and you don't know what to say and that silence can last all day. Other times you don't want to stop talking because you don't want to lose one another.
‐‐ Anton Yelchin

In a relationship where finances are shared, it's important that both people know what's going on. If one spouse likes being the family accountant, it's fine for that person to take the lead, but the other spouse shouldn't be in the dark.
‐‐ Jean Chatzky

In a relationship you have to open yourself up.
‐‐ Neil LaBute

In a relationship you want to treat people the way you want to be treated.
‐‐ Bradley Cooper

In a repressed society, artists fulfil a sense of harking back to instant gratification, or immediate expression, by doing things that function on the edge of society, or outside of what is conventionally accepted.
‐‐ Bat for Lashes

In a repressive society, a writer can be deeply influential, but in a society that's filled with glut and repetition and endless consumption, the act of terror may be the only meaningful act.
‐‐ Don DeLillo

In a republic, that paradise of debility, the politician is a petty tyrant who obeys the laws.
‐‐ Emile M. Cioran

In a republic this rule ought to be observed: that the majority should not have the predominant power.
‐‐ Marcus Tullius Cicero