-
“Primo Levi's - I mean, he's a very different kind of writer. He's a much more formal writer. He's a much more -almost detached. I mean, I wouldn't really say that he's detached ultimately. But he does write as a scientist, and so he describes things very - in great detail, very carefully.”
Source : "Translator Behind Elena Ferrante Novels Says Her Job Is To Be An 'Enabler'". Interview with Linda Wertheimer, capeandislands.org. February 20, 2016.
-
“In Love's service, only wounded soldiers can serve.”
-
“We went to the door and I let Asha in. I expected an uberawkward moment when he and Vayl met. But Asha took care of that problem right away. "So you belong to Jasmine," he said in his melancholy voice. It somehow delivered Vayl his deepest condolences without bearing a trace of malice toward me.”
-
“When you're playing a real person there's a balance between playing the person in the script and playing the person as he was in life. You have to be respectful and true to who that person was, but at the same time tell the story in the film.”
Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
-
“Don't ever admit you know a thing about cooking or it'll be used against you ...”
Source : Rebecca Wells (2009). “Little Altars Everywhere: Novel, A”, p.19, Harper Collins
-
“courage isn't simply a matter of leading charges: sometimes it consists in speaking up, sometimes in stoic silence, sometimes in forging ahead, sometimes in circumspection, and sometimes in nothing less than preserving our own humanity.”
Source : Elizabeth D. Samet (2007). “Soldier's Heart: Reading Literature Through Peace and War at West Point”, p.214, Farrar, Straus and Giroux
-
“It is now over. This has never been a case of trying to get free. I didn't ever want freedom. Frankly, I wanted death for myself. This was a case to tell the world that I did what I did, but not for reasons of hate. I hated no one. I knew I was sick or evil or both. Now I believe I was sick. The doctors have told me about my sickness, and now I have some peace. I know how much harm I have caused... Thank God there will be no more harm that I can do. I believe that only the Lord Jesus Christ can save me from my sins... I ask for no consideration.”
-
“It is Hillary's lot in life not to be able to fake it well.”
Source : "Hillary the Calculator" by Rich Lowry, www.realclearpolitics.com. January 24, 2007.