Dagnall Street Quotes

#1. My grandma has said many of the things her character says. But she was much nicer! I made her meaner for dramatic purposes.

Nicole Holofcener

#2. I have traveled widely. I have seen this country in its infancy. I tell you what it will become. The public squares will be occupied by an uneducated class who will not be able to quote a line of Shakespeare.

Peter Carey

#3. A person who forgoes the use of his symbolic skills is never really free.

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

#4. I hear all the time that boys don't like stories about girls. Which never made much sense to me. Wasn't 'Terminator' about a girl? And 'Alien'? Hell, I grew up on 'The Wizard of Oz.' People enjoy stories about anything if they're good stories.

Ted Naifeh

#5. Many occasions I've sat down with Israelis to say, where do you see your country in 10 years time, and work me back, so we can figure out the synergies and the connections between Israel and the rest of the Arab world. No Israeli has ever been able to answer that question.

Abdallah II Of Jordan

#6. Remain calm, be kind.

Colin Powell

#7. My parents had normal jobs, and I didn't just want to work all day, and so I thought if I could break into music I wouldn't have to work all day. And I had an uncle who was on Broadway, so I was like, 'I have to be able to sing.'

Nate Ruess

#8. Imagine the Creator as a low comedian, and at once the world becomes explicable.

H.L. Mencken

#9. Conflict with the United States is one of the overwhelming facts of Latin American history.

Stephen Kinzer