"Acutely aware of the poverty of my means, language became obstacle. At every page I thought, 'That's not it.' So I began again with other verbs and other images. No, that wasn't it either. But what exactly was that it I was searching for? It must have been all that eludes us, hidden behind a veil so as not to be stolen, usurped and trivialized. Words seemed weak and pale."

-- Elie Wiesel

#Writing Quotes #Mean Quotes #Verbs Quotes

“When actors are being defensive and defending their position, that is when you get less than good acting.”
“The career isn't guaranteed for as long as you might want to play.”
“All ye that pass by! While we least think it he prepares his Mate. Mate, and the King's pawn played, it never ceases, Though all the earth is dust of taken pieces.”
“Once a month I wake in the night, slippery with terror. I'm afraid, not because there's someone in the room, in the dark, in the bed, but because there isn't. I'm afraid of the emptiness, which lies beside me like a corpse.”
“Julia Louis-Dreyfus is just perfect in 'Veep.' She gets to show off the spiky claws beneath her patrician finesse. The obvious way to play 'Veep' would be to make Louis-Dreyfus a folksy heroine, one with more common sense or populist heart than her enemies. But she isn't one.”
“The hand is the cutting edge of the mind.”
“It's remarkable how many couples can precisely describe their particular pattern of painful fighting, and claim to be helpless to change it.”
“There's always been an assumption that ocean shipping coming in and out of the Great Lakes is critical to the economy. It isn't.”

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