Arthur Laurents Quotes

#1. That was all and it was enough for me: fantasies are better left fantasies.

Arthur Laurents

#2. What powers our work when it's no longer about addiction to achievement?

Shauna Niequist

#3. He liked to observe emotions; they were like red lanterns strung along the dark unknown of another's personality, marking vulnerable points.

Ayn Rand

#4. The American Dream has become a death sentence of drudgery, consumerism, and fatalism: a garage sale where the best of the human spirit is bartered away for comfort, obedience and trinkets. It's unequivocally absurd.

Zoltan Istvan

#5. Closing Bell is unlike any play I've written.

Arthur Laurents

#6. You tell Anderson Silva that I'm coming over and I'm kicking down his backdoor and patting his little lady on the ass and I'm telling her to make me a steak, medium-rare just how I like it.

Chael Sonnen

#7. I love being an illustrator because I get to read really great stories, work with amazing people, travel and see places I never would've seen. And I get to draw all the time.

Brian Selznick

#8. I'm a big fan of Albert Brooks, Nichols and May. I'd like to follow in their footsteps and do comedy films.

Illeana Douglas

#9. A mini-cab later and he arrived in Stockwell, where the pit bulls travelled in twos. Ludlow Road is near the tube station, a short mugging away.

Ken Bruen

#10. Expect the best and people will rise to the occasion.

James Kerr

#11. Psychoanalysts and elephants, they never forget.

Arthur Laurents

#12. Hear our humble prayer, O God. Make us, ourselves, to be true friends to the animals.

Albert Schweitzer

#13. Children are very nice observers, and they will often perceive our slightest defects. It general those who govern children forgive nothing in them, but everything in themselves.

Francois Fenelon

#14. It is a trap to presume that God wants to make us perfect specimens of what He can do - God's purpose is to make us one with Himself.

Oswald Chambers

#15. I think all minority audiences watch movies with hope. They hope they will see what they want to see. That's why nobody really sees the same movie.

Arthur Laurents

#16. An inflated balloon
impressive to look at but hollow at the core and easily punctured.

Dianne Feinstein

#17. Does anybody who gave up smoking to save a pound a week have a pound at the end of the week? Not on your life.

Katharine Whitehorn

#18. It would be especially tragic if the people who most cherish ideals of peace, who are most anxious for political cooperation on a wider than national scale, made the mistake of underestimating the pace of economic change in our modern world.

Lester B. Pearson

#19. My whole damn family was nice. I don't think I've imagined it. It's true. Maybe it has to do with being brought up as Christian Scientists. Half of my relatives were Readers or Practitioners in the church.

Henry Fonda

#20. We have a desperate need for producers in the [commercial Broadway] theatre, and it is very hard for them to get money and find investors for new plays.

Arthur Laurents