Axinn New York Quotes

#1. Democracy is a word all public men use and none understand.

George Bernard Shaw

#2. I build boxes
and place them at your feet,
to measure the distance
between dreams and reality.

Jessica Kristie

#3. Everybody says, 'You impress me as a guy who never wanted to be a movie star.' I say, 'Everybody in the world wants to be a movie star.'

Rip Torn

#4. Real responsibility means doing what's right, even when it's hard.

J.D. Robb

#5. Fall the deep curtains,
delicate the weave,
fair the thread.

Hilda Doolittle

#6. I've been a reporter for 20 years, and I don't ever get things wrong. That's important in terms of my professional status.

Ron Suskind

#7. What is alienation? Thought.

Marty Rubin

#8. I think Finance is the one that everybody aspires to, who's serious in politics, because that's where the real decisions are taken and I think it's a fascinating portfolio.

Lucinda Creighton

#9. You will win if you don't quit

Les Brown

#10. But I don't love you, Daisy, and you can't begin to know how sorry I am about that because if I could chose anyone in this world to love, it'd be you.

Susan Elizabeth Phillips

#11. What a hungry fox constantly dreams of is a chicken!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#12. Politically I also don't believe anymore that we can only have one voice to a story, it's like having one radio station to represent a country. You want the politics of any complicated situation to be complicated in a book of fiction or nonfiction.

Michael Ondaatje

#13. Not very smart," Chudo-Yudo growled. "Stalking a Baba Yaga." He showed a set of sharp white teeth. "Maybe he has a death wish. I could help with that You want me to eat him?

Deborah Blake

#14. Because I don't have to be careful of people's feelings when I teach literature, and I do when I'm teaching writing.

Tobias Wolff