Barbican Lighting Quotes

#1. I was realising that all new feelings from here on in would probably be bad ones. Surprises would no longer be good.

Lorrie Moore

#2. I was learning that in these extremely civilized circles, conflict is dealt with in a very ornate and hypocritical manner.

Ayaan Hirsi Ali

#3. The whiskey looks like transparent wood in my glass.

Katherine Dunn

#4. I'm not saying we don't need health care reform. We do need health care reform.

Jim Renacci

#5. It was nice to feel something other than anxiety, or mute fury, the twin emotions that seemed to make up so much of my daily life.

Jojo Moyes

#6. Knowledge of the Enlightenment Cycle, of the ways that inner dimensions and nirvana work, lifts you far above the transient sorrows, pains, pleasures and joys that the unenlightened masses experience.

Frederick Lenz

#7. It just makes me mad. All the stupid arbitrary shit."
"It makes you want to overthrow the world."
"On a daily basis.

David Levithan

#8. Watching my daughter sort of live in this world where a photograph is not something to keep a memory. It's something to just speak with. It's language.

Alec Soth

#9. Investing in your mind is the best investment
you can make.

Mensah Oteh

#10. Well, for one, I don't judge my characters.

Taraji P. Henson

#11. It's such a rich experience when you enter into a subject from a documentary point of view. It's hard for fiction to compete with that.

Jonathan Demme

#12. Girls are really looking to places that have limits and boundaries: where adults are the adults and there are rules, and where they feel safe.

Caitlin Flanagan

#13. Bookstores are lonely forts, spilling light onto the sidewalk. They civilize their neighborhoods.

John Updike