"In our evolution language has been the greatest single contribution to our understanding and misunderstanding"

“Global market forces will sort out those companies that do not have sound corporate governance.”

“The reason why the simpler sort are moved by authority is the consciousness of their own ignorance”

“Can it be I am the only Jew residing in Danville, Kentuchy, looking for matzoh in the Safeway and the A & P?”

Source : Maxine Kumin (2000). “Always Beginning: Essays on a Life in Poetry”

“There is luck in chess. My opponent was lucky that he was playing against an idiot.”

“A conclusion is simply the place where you got tired of thinking.”

“Every time I prep a script, I hear it in my head, but I have to keep my mind open so that when an actor does something different than that, I can think, 'Well, that wasn't what I had in mind, but it works. Let's go with that.' That's why you hire actors and not technicians to do voiceovers, because someone who will creatively bring something to the party.”

Source : Source: www.movieweb.com

“I see a lot of connections between folk and punk music just because they're both subcorporate music - I mean, traditionally.”

“What I have done in my nine year career was just a glimpse of what I can do.”