Cuttings Wharf Quotes

#1. [H]aving the career of the beloved CIA Director and the commanding general in Afghanistan instantly destroyed due to highly invasive and unwarranted electronic surveillance is almost enough to make one believe not only that there is a god, but that he is an ardent civil libertarian.

Glenn Greenwald

#2. Is it the freedom of characters in fiction that we find so inspiring, or the way that freedom transforms them?

Marc Levy

#3. Discard that old notion, that "the only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing". Good people can't do nothing.

Jenna Brooks

#4. In a crunch a man's reputation never counts for as much as it ought to.

Dean Koontz

#5. And by the way, the fact that she's not speaking to anyone in her family is a pretty good indicator that she is the problem.

Chelsea Handler

#6. The pain of dwelling on the wrongs done to us by other people far exceeds the little bit of pleasure we derive from condemning others for their guilt.

Rabindranath Tagore

#7. Every failure made me more confident. Because I wanted even more to achieve as revenge, to show that I could.

Roman Polanski