Bloomgarden Gary Quotes

#1. When your goal is to gain experience, perspective, and knowledge, failure is no longer a possibility

Sophia Amoruso

#2. But men are now united in states; that work is done; why now maintain exclusive devotion to one's own state, when this produces terrible evils for all.

Leo Tolstoy

#3. Educate thyself.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#4. You should despair and run away.

Hayao Miyazaki

#5. I think that the actors that I work with feel safer with me. Because they know I understand what they go through and I don't see them as chess pieces.

Adrienne Shelly

#6. We're gonna have some fun tonight.

Little Richard

#7. The sublime signals the limits of rationality - the 'sleep' of reason - and was best communicated by obscurity. So in the same spirit as the recipes 'to make a romance', 'seven types of obscurity' could be proposed for a Gothic novel:

Nick Groom

#8. In order to know what he is, a man must first know what the sum of this mysterious humanity is, a humanity made up of people who, like himself, do not understand what they are.

Leo Tolstoy

#9. I believe that cinema picks up ideas from society and not the other way round.

Amitabh Bachchan

#10. You're only powerless if you choose to be, no matter how many chains tie you to the ground.

Danyelle Leafty

#11. When relatives asked, "How is your life in America?" my father would answer, Nandito pa rin kami. We're still here.

Alex Tizon

#12. Of course, I have to consider that I've written a lot of prose, but I do in my heart think of myself as being originally, and still primarily, a poet.

Vikram Seth