Aamas Conference Quotes

#1. Each day, a new crisis, a new massacre, a new threat of extinction, disease, internecine conflict, meteorological catastrophe... Behold man. Violent, self-serving and ruthless when in power; exploited, miserable and diseased when not.

Meg Rosoff

#2. A lot of people feed their kids' tantrums with snacks and toys. Don't negotiate with terrorists.

Bethenny Frankel

#3. Incidentally, I have also learned a bit about the importance of avoiding feminine embarrassment ('Daddy,' wrote Sophia when she enrolled at the New School where I teach, 'people will ask "why is old Christopher Hitchens kissing that girl?"') and shall now cease and desist.

Christopher Hitchens

#4. We are tired of the pretense that we have special privileges and the reality that we have none; of the fiction that we are queens, and the fact that we are subjects.

Lillie Devereux Blake

#5. Was there nought better than to enjoy? No feat which, done, would make time break, And let us pent-up creatures through Into eternity, our due? No forcing earth teach heaven's employ?

Robert Browning

#6. The last time you're doing something - knowing you're doing it for the last - makes it even more alive than the first.

Gloria Naylor

#7. Thinking is the hardest and most exhausting of all labor; and hence many people shrink from it.

Wallace D. Wattles

#8. In film, I think that you do have a little more time to invest in the character compared to television, where you are shooting from the hip and making quick choices. It is the speed of things that is the major difference - certainly in my experience.

Henry Ian Cusick

#9. The good young man went out and I felt the great relief that simple kindness can work. It is a salve of the spirit, surely.

Geraldine Brooks

#10. When Jesus said to "love your neighbor as yourself," I don't think He meant judgmentally; but that is exactly how we treat our own souls, so it bleeds out to others.

Jen Hatmaker

#11. Sometimes I thought of us as a pair of damaged bookends. We both had our flaws but we belonged together even if there was always something between us, keeping us apart.

Karen Lynch

#12. Looking at acting, in the movies or the theater, and the way I like to look at it, it's just an extension of childhood play ... Kids play and imagine in a very intense fashion and they don't need any director telling them, 'You really have to believe in it.' They believe in it completely.

Viggo Mortensen

#13. You don't know how I feel about you? I try to show you how much I care about you every day. How can you not see that?

Cardeno C.