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“But what is drama? Broadly speaking, it is whatever by imitative action rouses interest or gives pleasure.”
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“I am a sucker for jackets!”
Source : "Scrapbook: Stylemakers' Memories". Interview with Genevieve Bahrenburg, www.elle.com. September 10, 2010.
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“Pray: To ask the laws of the universe to be annulled on behalf of a single petitioner confessedly unworthy.”
Source : Ambrose Bierce (2012). “The Devil's Dictionary”, p.96, Courier Corporation
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“Let's not forget that one poll after another clearly demonstrates that well over 50% of Russian citizens still wants both socialism and the USSR back. And the Russian government is listening.”
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“This is among the few things that can be said about love with any confidence. It is small enough to be contained within the heart but, pull thin, it would drape the entire world.”
Source : Nadeem Aslam (2008). “The Wasted Vigil”, Faber & Faber
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“I just try to be the best I can be and hope that is the best ever.”
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“The Bible is like a wide and beautiful landscape seen afar off, dim and confused; but a good telescope will bring it near, and spread out all its rocks and trees and flowers and v__ulant fields and winding rivers at one's very feet. That telescope is the Spirit's teaching.”
Source : "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilber, p. 317, 1895.
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“The lapse of ages changes all things - time - language - the earth - the bounds of the sea - the stars of the sky, and everything 'about, around, and underneath' man, except man himself, who has always been and always will be, an unlucky rascal. The infinite variety of lives conduct but to death, and the infinity of wishes lead but to disappointment. All the discoveries which have yet been made have multiplied little but existence.”