"One should aim not at being possible to understand, but at being impossible to misunderstand."

-- Quintilian

#Writing Quotes #Impossible Quotes #Should Quotes

“I love a great pair of jeans and a nice blouse.”
“An actor really suffers when the director isn't prepared because you start running out of time for the shoot and then have to do it fast.”
“You don't teach information in a writing workshop.”
“I think there is a human instinct to tell stories, no matter who you are or where you live.”

Source : "How I got the courage to tell my story" by Sarah Kay, www.cnn.com. May 1, 2011.
“The real or supposed rights of man are of two kinds, active and passive; the right in certain cases to do as we list; and the right we possess to the forbearance or assistance of other men. The first of these a just philosophy will probably induce us universally to explode.”
“I've always been fascinated by the operation of memory - the way in which it is not linear but fragmented, and its ambivalence.”
“The complete self-absorption, and childish indulgence and disregard, and having to feel as though everything you're doing is so people can live vicariously through you, so you have to pursue more and more unpleasant pastimes in order to satisfy the armchair people. That's a kind of scary existence.”

Source : "Taking Measurements: An Interview with Metric". Interview With Devon Powers, www.popmatters.com. October 12, 2004.
“I've always been in danger, but I don't mind.”

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