"This is form and content and diction and tone and imagination all looking up at the exact same moment: When Molly Tanzer claps once at the front of the classroom."

-- Stephen Graham Jones

#Imagination Quotes #Tone Quotes #Diction Quotes

“I'm not really a churchy person, although I do think Jesus was a good bloke.”
“No one is punished for free speech in Cuba. If free and inconvenient thoughts were a crime in our country, I would have been a good candidate for prison, with my advocacy for sexual self-determination. Those people are in prison because they are mercenaries paid by Washington.”
“What do we mean by the public interest? Some say the public interest is merely what interests the public. I disagree.”

Source : Television and the Public Interest, delivered 9 May 1961, National Association of Broadcasters, Washington, DC
“You know, one of the biggest thrills that I have is when famous people recognize me from "Taxi." When I was working with George C. Scott on "The Titanic," he knew every episode. He would quote lines from it. . .”
“Americans and their desire to be novelists, the American novel should be listed in medical dictionaries alongside Megalomania and Obsessional Neuroses.”
“Jews have always yearned for Jerusalem, from which they'd been exiled many times, but they also yearned for each and every one of the countries where they had been persecuted and where their ancestors once lived and are still buried.”

Source : Phyllis Chesler (2013). “An American Bride in Kabul: A Memoir”, p.145, Macmillan
“To be a legend, you've either got to be dead or excessively old!”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“See thou, whatsoever be thy name -- whether Fate, Life, or Devil! I cast thee down my gauntlet, I challenge thee to battle! Men of faint heart may bow before thy mysterious power, thy face of stone may inspire them with dread, in thy unbroken silence they may discern the birth of calamity and an impending avalanche of woe. But I am daring and strong, and I challenge thee to battle! Let us draw our swords, and join our bucklers, and rain such blows upon each other's crests as shall cause the very earth to shake again! Ha! Come forth and fight with me!”

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