Farei Wooton Quotes

#1. I'll be long gone before some smart person ever figures out what happened inside this Oval Office.
(Washington DC, 12 May, 2008)

George W. Bush

#2. If you have a smartphone, you can give content to the world. The days of putting a movie in movie theaters because people don't have a choice is over.

Ryan Kavanaugh

#3. I loathe writing autobiographical material because if it's dull no-one should have to read it anyway, and if it's interesting I should be using it for a story.

Shirley Jackson

#4. Confession is a sacred rite enhanced by allegory, exaggeration, and lies.

Craig Ferguson

#5. When we see the Beloved in each person, it's like walking through a garden, watching flowers bloom all around us.

Ram Dass

#6. A thousand policemen directing traffic cannot tell you why you come or where you go.

T. S. Eliot

#7. As a writer, the ideal job is the one that allows you time and mental space away from it. Teaching seemed to me like the obvious choice - those summers off, you know - but my experience may serve as a cautionary tale.

Debra Dean

#8. The scientific method is nearly perfect for understanding the physical aspects of our life. But it is a radically limited viewfinder in its inability to offer values, morals and meanings that are at the center of our lives.

Huston Smith

#9. I am an optimist and I believe that together we shall be able now to make the right historical choice so as not to miss the great chance at the turn of centuries and millenia and make the current extremely difficult transition to a peaceful world order.

Mikhail Gorbachev

#10. I look for really great characters. I say great because as long as they're really good, there's something you can do. And really good storytelling. And when people ask me what the story is, I say it's really several stories really. They're intermeshed.

Matt Dillon

#11. Please always remember, the secret of survival is to embrace change, and to adapt. To quote, All things fall and are built again, and those that build them are gay.

Rohinton Mistry

#12. When a man comes to die, no matter what his talents and influence and genius, if he dies unloved his life must be a failure to him and his dying a cold horror

John Steinbeck

#13. Somewhere in the dead space between house and shelter civilians became soldiers.

Sara Novic

#14. Without pain, we couldn't know joy.

John Green