Exquise Quotes

#1. I was one of those kids who liked a lot of attention. I was always the kid in class who'd be telling jokes and getting in trouble. Theater was a natural way for me to channel that and also become a productive member of society.

Lauren Worsham

#2. There are parents who are really angry that I decided to portray people who have come into the country illegally as decent human beings.

Paolo Bacigalupi

#3. The Iranian government as a whole has no relationship with my films. They're not particularly interested, perhaps this kind of cinema is not very interesting to them.

Abbas Kiarostami

#4. Witches knew that mysterious omens were around all the time. The world was always very nearly drowning in mysterious omens. You just had to pick the one that was convenient.

Terry Pratchett

#5. Estimating is what you do when you don't know.

Sherman Kent

#6. An old building is like a show. You smell the soul of a building. And the building tells you how to redo it.

Cameron Mackintosh

#7. One can describe the world of today to the people of today only if one describes it as capable of alteration.

Bertolt Brecht

#8. Not all artists have a responsibility to be socially or politically aware, but they do have a responsibility to make great art. They have to find some truth and put that in their music.

Michael Franti

#9. Christian spirituality means living in the mature wholeness of the gospel. It means taking all the elements of your life - children, spouse, job, weather, possessions, relationships - and experiencing them as an act of faith. God wants all the material of our lives.

Eugene H. Peterson

#10. Writing is powerful. Whether it's a little girl hiding from the Nazis in an attic, or Amnesty International writing letters on behalf of political prisoners, the power of telling stories is usually what causes change.

Erin Gruwell

#11. I may be a homeless, old man, but that doesn't make me worthless.

Shannon A. Thompson

#12. Isn't it also that on some fundamental level we find it difficult to understand that other people are human beings in the same way that we are? We idealize them as gods or dismiss them as animals.

John Green

#13. As someone from, and directly involved with, this part of the world, I am convinced Arabs are qualified to regain their glorious past.

Ahmed Zewail

#14. People are frustrated. They're fed up. They don't think the government is working for them.

John Kasich

#15. The life even of a just man is a round of petty frauds; that of a knave a series of greater. We degrade life by our follies and vices, and then complain that the unhappiness which is only their accompaniment is inherent in the constitution of things.

Christian Nestell Bovee