"I wake the dead. I bring Jackie Robinson and the Roosevelts to life. Who do you think Im trying to wake up?"

-- Ken Burns

#Thinking Quotes #Trying Quotes #Wake Up Quotes

“And in Hollywood, you know, everyone is an expert. Most of them are expert editors. They can't direct, they can't write, they can't act, but, by God, they all think they can edit.”
“Houses, like people, are apt to become rather eccentric if left too much on their own; this house was the architectural equivalent of an old gentleman in a worn dressing-gown and torn slippers, who got up and went to bed at odd times of day, and who kept up a continual conversation with friends no one else could see.”

Source : Susanna Clarke (2005). “Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell”, p.488, Bloomsbury Publishing USA
“You could have told me earlier.â€ â€œYou seemed so serious about the game. I didnâ€™t want to bother you.”
“All anyone can hope for is just a tiny bit of love, like a drop in a cup if you can get it, or a waterfall, a flood, if you can get that too.”

Source : Edwidge Danticat (2004). “Krik? Krak!”, p.14, Soho Press
“Follow thy fair sun, unhappy shadow.”

Source : Thomas Campion (1909). “The Complete English Works of Thomas Campion”
“I don't have great thighs. I have very big breasts and a soft, fatty little tummy. And I've got back fat. People assume that I'm walking around in little spaghetti-strap dresses. It's insidious - Glam Jamie, the Perfect Jamie, the great figure, blah, blah, blah. And I don't want the unsuspecting 40-year-old women of the world to think that I've got it going on. It's such a fraud. And I'm the one perpetuating it.”
“In a way, J.F.K. was the high point of the American dream. In order to go to the moon and back, all we did was say we could - and we did.”
“The party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command. His heart sank as he thought of the enormous power arrayed against him, the ease with which any Party intellectual would overthrow him in debate, the subtle arguments which he would not be able to understand, much less answer. And yet he was in the right! They were wrong and he was right.”

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