Anthony Mccarten Quotes

#1. The theory that can absorb the greatest number of facts, and persist in doing so, generation after generation, through all changes of opinion and detail, is the one that must rule all observation.

Adam Smith

#2. Maybe everyone is too rich. I have noticed that there is no dissatisfaction like that of the rich. Feed a man, clothe him, put him in a good house, and he will die of despair.

John Steinbeck

#3. Writing is the rock on which everything is built.

Dan Rather

#4. I have always heard that uber-successful people who write books about how to become uber-successful all have one thing in common: They all meditate every day. I consider yoga my meditation.

Kristian Bush

#5. He gave way to the fear that had come with her, the sense of the breaking of promises, the incoherence of Time. He broke.

Ursula K. Le Guin

#6. Loss, this was what he felt. Loss and deprivation. One man owns, another man craves - the craving far more passionate than the dull pleasures of ownership. How galling not to have when you were the type who deserved to have - yes, deserved.

Anthony McCarten

#7. Dudes know I'm not a threat. Chicks know I'm not a threat.

Kevin Smith

#8. Tea to the English is really picnic indoors. Plenty of sandwiches and cookies and of course hot tea. We all used the same cups and plates. (Walker 2000: 116)

Alice Walker

#9. And that's when he saw, at last, why it was so sweet to be infinitesimal: because as we become nothing, beneath the stars, so too do our troubles.

Anthony McCarten

#10. Sir, what is poetry? Why, Sir, it is much easier to say what it is not. We all know what light is; but it is not easy to tell what it is.

Samuel Johnson

#11. It wasn't the cider which made me surpass myself, it was this liberation we had torn from the gray encroachments of 1943, the escape we had concocted, this afternoon of momentary, illusory, special and separate peace.

John Knowles

#12. Learn to tolerate your own different-ness from other people and learn to navigate your own waters

Daniel Gottlieb

#13. Your word is a lamp to my feet and a light to my path.

Anonymous

#14. Finally, it's not the lies we tell others that do the most damage, it's those we tell ourselves. From this all troubles rise.

Anthony McCarten

#15. Life, especially in relation to other women, would always be a competition, one she would rarely win.

Anthony McCarten