Ferran Torres Quotes

#1. It's a way of living with tragedy, I guess, to claim after it happens that you saw it coming, as if somehow you had already made the necessary adjustments beforehand.

Russell Banks

#2. From the way of Go the beauty of Japan and the Orient had fled. Everything had become science and regulation.

Yasunari Kawabata

#3. I look for something that is highly unusual, involving ordinary people caught in extraordinary situations.

Walter Lord

#4. The adrenaline of a live performance is unlike anything in film or theater. I can see why it's so addictive.

Gwyneth Paltrow

#5. With all the other -isms that we deal with, that sort of nameless -ism that we have in too many of our hearts against the poor in this country is what wounds us most broadly.

Benjamin Todd Jealous

#6. What is your name, Blind people do not need a name, I am my voice, nothing else matters, But you wrote books and those books carry your name, said the doctor's wife, Now nobody can read them, it is as if they did not exist.

Jose Saramago

#7. New Yorkers like to boast that if you can survive in New York, you can survive anywhere. But if you can survive anywhere, why live in New York?

Edward Abbey

#8. If refined sense, and exalted sense, be not so useful as common sense, their rarity, their novelty, and the nobleness of their objects, make some compensation, and render them the admiration of mankind.

David Hume

#9. In choosing a hypothesis there is no virtue in being timid. I clearly would have been burned at the stake in another age.

Thomas Gold

#10. You heard it from the heart, you saw it in their eyes. Then I got used to the fact that I couldn't feel my fingers and my feet. That for me was the essence of the battle.

Jude Law

#11. If, while writing your novel, it starts "speaking" to you, don't answer back, keep it talking.

David John Griffin