All Quotes

In a revolution, as in a novel, the most difficult part to invent is the end.
‐‐ Alexis de Tocqueville

In a rich man's house there is no place to spit but his face.
‐‐ Diogenes

In a rising market, enough of your bad ideas will pay off so that you'll never learn that you should have fewer ideas.
‐‐ Daniel Kahneman

In a romance novel, the core story is the developing relationship between a man and a woman. The other events in the story line, though important, are secondary to that relationship.
‐‐ Leigh Michaels

In a romantic comedy, it's usually a good idea to have people who can't stand the fact that they are attracted to each other.
‐‐ Amanda Peet

In 'A Royal Affair' I had to learn to act like a queen and learned Danish. It's so much different to act in another language. It's the nuances in the words.
‐‐ Alicia Vikander

In a sacred ground like marriage, you find yourself out of it at certain times for reasons unknown that can be destructive. There could be a demon that kind of comes out and overtakes you.
‐‐ David Boreanaz

In a sad twist of fate, the bill to reauthorize the Patriot Act was debated on the floor of the House of Representatives the same day that terrorists struck again.
‐‐ Jim Sensenbrenner

In a sane, civil, intelligent and moral society, you don't blame poor people for being poor.
‐‐ Andrew Young

In 'A Scandalous Woman,' the eventually distraught narrator watches as her high-spirited friend is beaten down - literally and figuratively - by Ireland's pious customs.
‐‐ Alan Cheuse

In a school where everyone is famous or rich or whatever, you have a culture, 'What does your dad do?' 'What does your mom do?'
‐‐ Cynthia Nixon

In a secular age, an authentic miracle must purport to be a hoax, in order to gain credit in the world.
‐‐ Angela Carter

In a sense, a hit belongs to the person who made it popular, but if a tune is good enough to attain tremendous success, then it certainly deserves more than one version, one treatment, one approach.
‐‐ Les Baxter

In a sense, all Americans are battle-born. Our ancestors came here for something better.
‐‐ Brandon Flowers

In a sense, all of my books have been about a 'poisonous pedagogy,' which engenders a culture of obedience, this underlying theme of patriarchal systems.
‐‐ John Bradshaw

In a sense, 'American Pie' was a very despairing song but it can also be seen as very hopeful.
‐‐ Don McLean

In a sense, any story that anyone writes is going to be autobiographical - whether it deals directly with the author's experience or not - because it captures what we're obsessed with while working on that particular piece.
‐‐ Molly Antopol

In a sense, each of us is an island. In another sense, however, we are all one. For though islands appear separate, and may even be situated at great distances from one another, they are only extrusions of the same planet, Earth.
‐‐ J. Donald Walters

In a sense, every form of expression is imposed upon one by social factors, one's own language above all.
‐‐ Edward Sapir

In a sense, habits never really disappear. Once formed, they always remain in our neurology.
‐‐ Charles Duhigg

In a sense, having cancer takes you by the shoulders and shakes you.
‐‐ Elizabeth Edwards

In a sense, I feel a lot more an outsider in Los Angeles than I did in Newfoundland.
‐‐ Rhys Ifans

In a sense I feel very much a part of the cinema now in a way where when I come back to the theater now I feel like a visitor. The cinema is really what I enjoy. I want to do more independent movies.
‐‐ Brian Cox

In a sense, I'm always hearing music of some sort, whether it's people talking or surface noise or whatever, because there is no privacy. So when I'm by myself, I just kind of like to be and reflect, and I can't do that when I'm listening to music. Because it's someone else's reflections, not mine.
‐‐ Sarah McLachlan

In a sense I portray myself in a very androgynous way, and I love androgyny.
‐‐ Lady Gaga

In a sense, I think a movie is really a little like a question and when you make it, that's when you get the answer.
‐‐ Francis Ford Coppola

In a sense I've made the same film over and over again. In all of them I've asked, 'Who are we as Americans?
‐‐ Ken Burns

In a sense, I wrote the book about Jesus that I wanted to read.
‐‐ Jay Parini

In a sense it's a lot crazier when you're on the road and it's a lot less stable, but it's actually really healthy for me because it keeps me from isolating, which I tend to do a lot.
‐‐ Fiona Apple

In a sense, 'Out of Oz' is an examination of how individuals keep going, keep reinventing themselves and their lives, even after life-altering complications have afflicted them.
‐‐ Gregory Maguire

In a sense, 'Schmidt' is the most Omaha of my films. But have I gotten it right? I'm not sure. Did Fellini get Rome right? Did Ozu get Tokyo right?
‐‐ Alexander Payne

In a sense, terrorism blossomed in the advent of television. Television promotes terrorism in religion and in politics.
‐‐ Marilyn Manson

In a sense, the god we trust politically is a slightly different god than the one we bring into the fray when we enter a rock concert. One of the things I can say with absolute conviction is that I worship that god.
‐‐ Pete Townshend

In a sense, the market, by expecting a fall in prices, discounts that fall and makes it happen right away instead of later. Expectations speed up future price reactions.
‐‐ Murray Rothbard

In a sense, the music business and I haven't always been the best of bedfellows. Artists often have to fight their corner. Your music goes through these filters of record labels and media, and you're hoping you'll find someone who'll help you get your work into the world.
‐‐ Annie Lennox

In a sense the quest for the emancipation of black people in the U.S. has always been a quest for economic liberation which means to a certain extent that the rise of black middle class would be inevitable.
‐‐ Angela Davis

In a sense there is no 'opposition' in Bahrain, as the phrase implies one unified block with the same views. Such a phrase is not in our constitution, unlike say the United Kingdom. We only have people with different views and that's ok.
‐‐ Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa

In a sense, there is no such thing as a bargain in computing. Models which are popular sell for the price they are supposed to fetch for the best part of their product cycle.
‐‐ David Hewson

In a sense, there's a great truth to that, but, also I was a great reader.
‐‐ A. E. van Vogt

In a sense, 'Twin Peaks' never really went away. They've got a 'Twin Peaks' convention up in Washington every year, and I'm pretty much recognized on a fairly regular basis from 'Twin Peaks,' so I feel like it never really got too far away.
‐‐ Michael J. Anderson

In a sense, what we do with the regional development agencies is to give them resources to look at the deficiencies in the economy in the regional areas, so they can address themselves to that.
‐‐ John Prescott

In a sense, words are encyclopedias of ignorance because they freeze perceptions at one moment in history and then insist we continue to use these frozen perceptions when we should be doing better.
‐‐ Edward de Bono

In a separation it is the one who is not really in love who says the more tender things.
‐‐ Marcel Proust

In a series of articles beginning on Oct. 2, 1966, I wrote about the long-forgotten history of the Liberty Tree. To call attention to how obscure the site had become, I interviewed waitresses at the Essex Delicatessen below the plaque on Washington Street. None knew what the Liberty Tree was.
‐‐ Ronald Kessler

In a series, you really need to stay open-minded. It's not like a play or a film, where you can create and fully commit to your character's back-story.
‐‐ Johnny Galecki

In a serious relationship, I will definitely write music about a guy. I'm totally into mix tapes and I'm all about small little things. I'll drop by their door and just leave a gift or come over if they're sick and make them chicken noodle soup and rent a DVD and play board games. I think those little things mean a lot to someone.
‐‐ Aly Michalka

In a serious struggle there is no worse cruelty than to be magnanimous at an inopportune time.
‐‐ Leon Trotsky

In a shooting day in the U.K., every few hours, everyone takes a bit of a tea break - not coffee, but a tea break. They bring out these little finger sandwiches with the crust cut off. Everyone sits around for a few minutes, with their pinkies in the air, drinking. It's so cultured.
‐‐ Jonathan Silverman

In a short story, you can use someone - we're only going to be with that person for maybe 10 pages, and they can have sort of a one note personality. And in a novel, you need to have arrows pointing more than one direction for that person.
‐‐ Rebecca Makkai

In a show or a movie, one must work with many people. Many women just don't have the time for it.
‐‐ Dorothy Fields