"For both writer and reader, the novel is a lonely, physically inactive affair. Only the imagination races."

-- Mary McCarthy

#Lonely Quotes #Race Quotes #Imagination Quotes

“Pride, like humility, is destroyed by one's insistence that he possesses it.”
“I bought a gun safe with velvet shelves and a built-in dehumidifier to house the hundreds of original [Barbara] Stanwyck letters I amassed that I first kept in the lettuce crisper of a refrigerator in my basement.”
“I first had the thought about making a musical of 'Edwin Drood' as far back as 1971.”
“The scariest people are usually the sweetest.”
“I'm a big supporter of immigration.”

Source : "[Flashback interview] Retired Senator Malcolm Wallop: 'Frontier Freedom'". Interview with Rick Henderson, www.ff.org. December 21, 2012.
“Civilization exists precisely so that there may be no masses but rather men alert enough never to constitute masses.”

Source : Georges Bernanos (1955). “Last essays”
“I believe there are three keys to success. For me it is keeping my priorities in order: It's my faith and my family, and then the business.”

Source : "Kathy Ireland: Designing Woman". Interview with Lisa Ryan, www.cbn.com.
“Every time you make the hard, correct decision you become a bit more courageous, and every time you make the easy, wrong decision you become a bit more cowardly. If you are CEO, these choices will lead to a courageous or cowardly company.”

Source : "Ben Horowitz: There's a fine line between fear and courage". fortune.com. August 5, 2011.

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