Allan Nevins Quotes

#1. History is never above the melee. It is not allowed to be neutral, but forced to enlist in every army.

Allan Nevins

#2. Reading and writing are closed-room activities, which literally take you away from the gaze of others. The greater risk is that they also remove others from your gaze.

Elena Ferrante

#3. But I am enjoying the feeling of inbetweenness - that not-yet-being-settled feeling - and I plan on dragging it out as long as I can, because its a state of grace where all things are permissible.

Jonathan Goldstein

#4. I, Lesley, I like looking nice. I like doing my hair and wearing makeup and wearing nice clothes. But I don't care what my characters look like.

Lesley Manville

#5. I think it's almost immoral to keep on with a marriage that's really bad. It just gets more and more rotten and vindictive and everybody gets more and more hurt. There's not enough honesty about marriage, I think. I wish more people would face the truth about their marital situations.

Johnny Carson

#6. Puny legs weaken the soul.

John Arnold

#7. History is the sextant of states which, tossed by wind and current, would be lost in confusion if they could not fix their position.

Allan Nevins

#8. I am so happy to be on a show with writing I wanted to participate in.

Yancy Butler

#9. For what are the classics but the noblest thoughts of man? They are the only oracles which are not decayed, and there are such answers to the most modern inquiry in them as Delphi and Dodona never gave. We might as well omit to study Nature because she is old.

Henry David Thoreau

#10. I work with a trainer called Ruben Tabares. He's a nutritionist, strength and conditioning coach, and an athlete. So I literally just train like an athlete.

Tinie Tempah

#11. If history were a photograph of the past it would be flat and uninspiring. Happily, it is a painting; and, like all works of art, it fails of the highest truth unless imagination and ideas are mixed with the paints.

Allan Nevins

#12. She's a good person to hug, because her body fills up all the empty spaces.

Anita Shreve

#13. He walked from one end of the basement to the other, the lamplight magnifying his shadow. It turned him into a giant on the wall, walking back and forth. When he stopped pacing, his shadow loomed behind him, watching. Someone was always watching.

Markus Zusak

#14. I remember the feeling of a tweed Chanel jacket because my mom used to wear one to work.

Astrid Berges-Frisbey

#15. There's an alchemy that happens during sex that causes 1 + 1 to add up to much more than 2, even as those halves meld in an almost magical way to form a single unit that's more complete than either of them alone.

Dale Peck