Bruce Wasserstein Quotes

#1. I try to write about a woman finding her self-respect, valuing herself, and liking herself again. But what one desperately wants now is to write a proper novel.

Kate O'Mara

#2. If we want to change something, we must begin with understanding. But if we want to love something, we must begin with acceptance.

Eric Greitens

#3. One possible way of couching it is to choose to say that we will take apart your skull very gently and reconstruct a skull for you that will have a highly developed bump of clarity and a slight concave dent where the fear-instinct used to be.

David Foster Wallace

#4. My reading is extremely eclectic. Lately I've been teaching myself computer graphics, so I'm reading a lot about that. I read books of trivia, of facts.

Jack Prelutsky

#5. Higher education should be based on quality, not quantity; receive merit-based funding; and be free of unnecessary bureaucracy. Not the least of the benefits of educational reform is to foster the pride of achievement at national and international levels.

Ahmed Zewail

#6. Taking the leap involves making a commitment to ourselves and to the earth itself - making a commitment to let go of old grudges, to not avoid people and situations and emotions that make us feel uneasy, to not cling to our fears,

Pema Chodron

#7. When you're 18 and you've made the album of your dreams, you're not really thinking about the machinery that will actually take it to the public. You just think: "I've done the best thing that I could ever do and this is the most magic moment for me."

Patrick Wolf

#8. The terrorists hide behind Allah.

Linda Chavez

#9. Ah, well." He smiled-another one of those devastatingly intoxicating smiles that did unreasonable things to her body temperature and respiration.
With a nod and a respectful, "Ma'am," he left her in the middle of the room.
Feeling like she'd been hit by a tank.

Cindy Gerard

#10. The Universe is like a loving parent who wants us to have everything we need. Claim your power and be prosperous.

Hina Hashmi

#11. No man, I suspect, ever lived long in the country without being bitten by these meteorological ambitions. He likes to be hotter and colder, to have been more deeply snowed up, to have more trees and larger blown down than his neighbors.

James Russell Lowell

#12. Josie glanced back to the TV. Again the players seemed to be celebrating some minor achievement. It offended the eye at first, then Josie grew to understand it. That's what's missing in my life, she thought. The celebration of every single moment, like those fucking idiots on TV.

Dave Eggers

#13. The free press guarantee does not only protect corporate reporters but anyone engaged in journalism, whether employed or not.

Glenn Greenwald