Quotes
Authors
Theodore Zeldin
"To be a catalyst is the ambition most appropriate for those who see the world as being in constant change, and who, without thinking that they can control it, wish to influence its direction." --
Source : Theodore Zeldin (2012). “An Intimate History Of Humanity”, p.155, Random House
Theodore Zeldin
#Ambition Quotes
#Thinking Quotes
#Wish Quotes
“Every time you get a script and you have a scene, you start mining out how many layers there are within it.”
“Please clean your plate dear, the Lord above can see ya. Don't you know people are starving in Korea.”
“Women will not be free until we can speak our minds and our hearts without having to worry that men will crucify us, women will crucify us, the press will crucify us, or our children will be ashamed... Women are still in emotional bondage as long as we feel we have to make a choice between being heard and being loved.”
“Art has a double visage: it looks before and after. Romance is its forward-looking face. The germ of growth is in romanticism. Formalism, on the other hand, consolidates tradition; gleans what has been gained and makes it facile to the hand or the mind; economizes the energy of genius.”
“The reason is that everyone has trouble accepting the fact that he will disappear unheard of and unnoticed in an indifferent universe, and everyone wants to make himself into a universe of words before it's too late. Once the writer in every individual comes to life (and that time is not far off), we are in for an age of universal deafness and lack of understanding.”
“[Drug] Addiction is awful, the worst if it is your kid. Plenty of loving parents who did everything "right" find themselves with kids caught up with drugs, and plenty of absentee parents have kids who never touch the stuff.”
Source : Source: www.washingtonpost.com
“There was no violence, no speed. It moved to the rhythm of an elder dance, putting all the rituals of the world to shame. Black, silver, gold and moon-opal, night and sea, fire, earth, air and water.”
“Originality usually amounts only to plagiarizing something unfamiliar.”
Source : Katharine Fullerton Gerould (1920). “Modes and Morals”
