"Filmmaking is essentially about entertainment, but it's amazing to realize that it has this other muscle that could actually help. Do you know what I mean? People permit entertainment to wash over them, but every once and a while, entertainment - and this is entertaining - also galvanizes something else and that would be a really good thing to have happen in this case."

-- Ken Burns

#Mean Quotes #People Quotes #Helping Quotes

“You sit down and you do it, and you do it, and you do it, until you have learned to do it.”
“Most of the doctors in the Tunisian administration, especially those in country districts, contracted typhus and approximately one third of them died of it”
“Anarchists prepare for social revolution and use every means - speech, writing, or deed, whichever is more to the point; to accelerate revolutionary development.”
“People need stories...we use stories to teach, to learn, to make sense of the world around us. As long as we need stories, we will need books.”

Source : Jennifer Chiaverini (2013). “An Elm Creek Quilts Companion: New Fiction, Traditions, Quilts, and Favorite Moments from the Beloved Series”, p.12, Penguin
“Juliana's a year older than me, but she sometimes seems younger - mostly because she's the opposite of cynical and I'm the opposite of the opposite of cynical.”

Source : Claire LaZebnik (2011). “Epic Fail”, p.7, Harper Collins
“One of the most visible effects of a child's presence in the household is to turn the worthy parents into complete idiots when, without him, they would perhaps have remained mere imbeciles.”
“I'd get kicked out of buildings all day long, people would rip up my business card in my face. It's a humbling business to be in. But I knew I could sell and I knew I wanted to sell something I had created. I cut the feet out of those pantyhose and I knew I was on to something. This was it.”

Source : “The woman in control of America's bottom” by Louise France, www.theguardian.com. April 13, 2008.
“The present times require the vigor and the activity of the prime of life; but I feel the increasing infirmities of age to such a degree, that I am conscious I cannot serve you to advantage.”

Source : Christopher Gadsden (1966). “The Writings of Christopher Gadsden, 1746-1805”, Columbia : University of South Carolina Press

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