Anthony Lane famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

We are not merely tempered and schooled by failure but compelled, in however subtle a fashion, to become something other than we were.
-- Anthony Lane

#Fashion #Subtle
So much to relish and remember.
-- Anthony Lane

#Remember
There is more suspense, more dramatic torque, in one page of [Nathaniel] Hawthorne's heart-racked ruminations onthe Christian consciencethaninall Demi Moore's woodland gallops and horizontal barn dancing.
-- Anthony Lane

#Christian #Heart #Dancing
No new reader, however charitable, could open â€œFifty Shades of Grey,â€ browse a few paragraphs, and reasonably conclude that the author was writing in her first language, or even her fourth.
-- Anthony Lane

#Writing #Firsts #Fifty
The general opinion of Revenge of the Sith seems to be that it marks a distinct improvement on the last two episodes, The Phantom Menace and Attack of the Clones. True, but only in the same way that dying from natural causes is preferable to crucifixion.
-- Anthony Lane

#Revenge #Two #Dying
I do have one very brutal writing ritual. If I'm working in the morning, I don't allow myself a cup of tea until I've written two paragraphs. It's harsh.
-- Anthony Lane

#Morning #Writing #Two
We happen upon ourselves when nothing much happens to us, and we are transformed in the process.
-- Anthony Lane

#Process
That's the trouble with cookbooks. Like sex education and nuclear physics, they are founded on an illusion. They bespeak order, but they end in tears.
-- Anthony Lane

#Sex #Order #Tears
Cookbooks, it should be stressed, do not belong in the kitchen at all. We keep them there for the sake of appearances; occasionally, we smear their pages together with vibrant green glazes or crimson compotes, in order to delude ourselves, and any passing browsers, that we are practicing cooks; but in all honesty, a cookbook is something you read in the living room, or in the bathroom, or in bed.
-- Anthony Lane

#Honesty #Order #Kitchen
The obvious precedent for Beijing 2008 was the Berlin Olympics, in 1936. Both were showcases for a muscle-flexing nation, although Hitler made an elementary error when he chose not to dress his young National Socialists in lime-green catsuits laced with twinkling fairy lights.
-- Anthony Lane

#Errors #Light #Green

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