An author is a fool who, not content with boring those he lives with, insists on boring future generations. Charles De Montesquieu An empire founded by war has to maintain itself by war. Charles De Montesquieu False happiness renders men stern and proud, and that happiness is never communicated. True happiness renders them kind and […]
15 Sayings From Cate Blanchett
Actresses can get outrageously precious about the way they look. That’s not what life’s about. If you starve yourself to the point where your brain cells shrivel, you will never do good work. And if you’re overly conscious of your arms flapping in the wind, how can you look the other actor in the eye […]
Carl Sandburg Sayings
A baby is God’s opinion that life should go on. Carl Sandburg All human actions are equivalent… and all are on principle doomed to failure. Carl Sandburg Anger is the most impotent of passions. It effects nothing it goes about, and hurts the one who is possessed by it more than the one against whom […]
7 Quotations From Carlos Fuentes
I am a morning writer I am writing at eight-thirty in longhand and I keep at it until twelve-thirty, when I go for a swim. Then I come back, have lunch, and read in the afternoon until I take my walk for the next day’s writing. Carlos Fuentes I am not interested in slice of […]
12 Quotes From Carol Burnett
Adolescence is just one big walking pimple. Carol Burnett But I didn’t ask to have somebody nose around in my private life. I didn’t even ask to be famous. All I asked was to be able to earn a living making people laugh. Carol Burnett But I don’t begrudge anybody, because I know how hard […]
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