"I sometimes wish desperately that IÂ could write like someone else, be someone else. No one particularly. Just if IÂ could put the pen down on paper and suddenly come out in a totally different way."

-- Harold Pinter

#Writing Quotes #Wish Quotes #Different Quotes

“I admit," Morgan said with another withering look, "it's no donut.”
“I agree with you that it is important to examine our presuppositions, throughly and once for all, in order to establish something solid. For I hold that it is only when we can prove all that we bring forward that we perfectly understand the thing under consideration. I know that the common herd takes little pleasure in these researches, but I know also that the common herd take little pains thoroughly to understand things.”
“Much like the fortified wine that gives Marsala its name, this tasteful hue embodies the satisfying richness of a fulfilling meal, while its grounding red-brown roots emanate a sophisticated, natural earthiness. This hearty, yet stylish tone is universally appealing and translates easily to fashion, beauty, industrial design, home furnishings and interiors.”

Source : "A Dress of a Different Color". Interview with Maureen Seaberg, www.psychologytoday.com. March 1, 2015.
“My dad wrote a song about the people in the slides. I started playing harmonica. I was only six.”

Source : "The Trachtenburg Family Slideshow Players: Off & On Broadway". Documentary, August 1, 2006.
“I didn't want to make Young and Beautiful as very dramatic movie . In a certain way, I wanted to do a girly film. I wanted to make something sweet, pink. With a boy it was too dramatic and too heavy. I had a lot of pleasure with the boys in In the House, I said, "This time I will do a film with girls."”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“I went up to the top of the career ladder and I came down again, I am past all that.”

Source : "Iain Duncan Smith: I will tackle root causes of poverty" by Nicholas Watt and Patrick Wintour, www.theguardian.com. May 26, 2010.
“Good clothes open all doors.”
“Culture, the acquainting ourselves with the best that has been known and said in the world, and thus with the history of the human spirit.”

Source : 'Literature and Dogma' (1873) preface

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