"I would rather be poor in a cottage full of books than a king without the desire to read."

-- Thomas B. Macaulay

#Kings Quotes #Book Quotes #Desire Quotes

“My heart only ever had one thought, one want. One need. Despite all, in spite of all...All my heart has ever wanted is you.”
“If we go on as we are, we will destroy in the next century everything that the poets have been singing about for the past two thousand years.”
“To most of America, war has become not only tolerable but profitable, and so there is no longer any great incentive to end it.”

Source : James Risen (2014). “Pay Any Price: Greed, Power, and Endless War”, p.15, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“Never underestimate the narcissism of a writer.”
“What you do, is you gradually become more and more experienced, and more and more realistic about dramatic tolerance, i.e. about how long the play should be.”
“Well, I was lucky in that my being an actress totally overshadowed my having some kind of a... legacy at Yale, so that was kind of great.”
“We try to invest in companies that are putting together environmental programs and working to improve their overall social and environmental self.”
“If anything good came out of 9/11, to me, was that people were so cynical about the world - all you hear about on the news is all the bad stuff everyday, but what was refreshing to me was after that, you saw how many good people there are out there. For every one bad one, there's a thousand good ones.”

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