"Power doesn't corrupt people; people corrupt power."

-- William Gaddis

#Power Quotes #People Quotes #Corrupt Power Quotes

“I learned the hard way that not only do you not have to be superwoman, but it's better not to be and not to try to be. What I would like to be is just a good person - someone who tries her best and puts her best foot forward.”

Source : Source: www.goodhousekeeping.com
“If I didn't have to worry about money, I would be doing the same thing I'm doing now. Additionally, I would maintain other creative outlets -- glassblowing and woodworking. I would operate a salon-format venue geared towards deviation; a destabilization of the audience/rock star dynamic.”
“Washington is a city of money. It's a flood of money.”
“I have always believed in dialogue and in nonviolence, and if you look at my background you will see that it has always been my policy to talk to everyone.”
“When the Olympics and World Cups come around, that's when you see the real outpouring of support that there really is for female football.”
“I wish I could say I had some sort of master plan where one role leads to the next role, but a lot of it really is persistence and luck and being prepared when you are asked to jump on a project. There isn't any one rule that I follow. Obviously, I'll always shoot to work with the best actors, directors and filmmakers. I've been incredibly lucky to be able to do that.”

Source : Source: collider.com
“During the games of the Circus, he had, imprudently or designedly, performed the manumission of a slave in the presence of the consul. The moment he was reminded that he had trespassed on the jurisdiction of another magistrate, he condemned himself to pay a fine of ten pounds of gold, and embraced this public occasion of declaring to the world that he was subject, like the rest of his fellow-citizens, to the laws, and even to the forms, of the republic.”
“We destroy things with our curiosity. We shatter with our best intentions”

You may also like:

David Foster Wallace
Novelist
David Markson
Novelist
Don DeLillo
Writer
Donald Barthelme
Author
John Barth
Novelist
Jonathan Franzen
Novelist
Robert Coover
Author
Thomas Pynchon
Novelist
William H. Gass
Novelist