"When I started, there were no big interviews, no television, no profiles and all that. The publishers were quite shockingly uncommercial, but they did look after their writers."

-- Doris Lessing

#Interviews Quotes #Looks Quotes #Television Quotes

“Photography is something you learn to love very quickly. I know that many, many things are going to ask me to have their pictures taken and I will take them all.”
“The Electroshock Novelist: The Alluring Bad Boy of Literary England Has Always Been Fascinated by Britain's Dustbin Empire. Now Martin Amis Takes On American Excess,”
“Your responsibility as a parent is not as great as you might imagine. You need not supply the world with the next conqueror of disease or major motion picture star. If your child simply grows up to be someone who does not use the word "collectible" as a noun, you can consider yourself an unqualified success.”

Source : FaceBook post by Fran Lebowitz from May 08, 2010
“The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.”
“Drawing on my fine command of language, I said nothing.”

Source : "With Truth as Our Sword". Book by C. E. Sylvester, February 2005.
“He [Columbus] enjoyed long stretches of pure delight such as only a seaman may know, and moments of high, proud exultation that only a discoverer can experience.”

Source : Samuel Eliot Morison, Emily Morison Beck (1989). “Sailor historian: the best of Samuel Eliot Morison”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH)
“O Light divine! we need no fuller test That all is ordered well; We know enough to trust that all is best Where Love and Wisdom dwell.”

Source : Christopher Pearse Cranch (1875). “The Bird and the Bell: With Other Poems”, p.240
“...Speaking of, I've been playing with the letters - Lovers In a Very Enlightened Regard." "LIVER. Good one." "Also, how about Life Invasion Via Exceptional Respect?" "Life Invasion. Like it." "Or Lovelike Intensity Via Emotional Rapport." "Doesn't that spell OLIVER?”

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