Backstage West Quotes

#1. Tell him I said that he will know when he's my age that books aren't written on whims or old promises. Books are written on years turned inside out by ideas that never let go until you get them in print, and even then writing's a last resort, a desperate ransom you pay to get your life back.

Richard Bach

#2. I spend every day up at the United Nations where I have to interact with 192 other countries. I know how well the United States is viewed.

Susan Rice

#3. Without the desire to be patient patience doesn't happen,
Just like without the desire to grow, LIFE doesn't happen!

Sujit Lalwani

#4. Being with her was like being backstage during an amateurish, ridiculous play.

Nathanael West

#5. Acumen Fund is my prayer in response to genocide and what happened in Rwanda.

Jacqueline Novogratz

#6. Caspian sat there with me until my sobs died down to a slow hiccup.
Then he whispered, "I'd hold your hand right now if I could."
His eyes were so wide and earnest that I couldn't help but smile at him.
"Thanks," I said, trying to hold back more tears. "It's the thought that counts.

Jessica Verday

#7. Love, it turns out, is as undemocratic as money, so it accumulates around people who have plenty of it already: the sane, the healthy, the lovable.

Nick Hornby

#8. When a man offers you his soul, do you give him change?

Luis Munoz Marin

#9. Where do you learn how to act? Not at church. America is a lot more like pagan Rome than we think. We still sacrifice to objects to gain our social goals.

Dave Hickey

#10. Heritage is something martial-arts films don't often talk about.

Wong Kar-Wai

#11. Once I became a professional, maybe 19 or 20, I really started to try to figure out who I was, as a woman and as an individual.

Misty Copeland

#12. What I experienced in Cuba, I have become a student of what, how communism operates.

Rafael Cruz

#13. It would make life much easier if I could have total faith and not question everything all the time, but I can't do it and I won't do it.

Joey Skaggs

#14. Almost everybody who thinks about local thinks about daily deals, but companies like OpenTable and Zillow and Yelp are all getting their money from the local market.

Bill Gurley

#15. God and the Devil are an effort after specialization and the division of labor.

Samuel Butler

#16. There are no problems - just endless possibilities.

Debasish Mridha