Finkelstein Eye Quotes

#1. One might say that the novel is the genre that most predisposes one to a profound insight into the tremendous life around us, instead of putting forward one's own tiny ego as the centre of the universe.

Mikhail Sholokhov

#2. I wouldn't be very happy if a poet read what I had written and said, 'What a peculiar thing to say about this work of mine.'

Helen Vendler

#3. Hollow then produced Kobel's tax returns for the past three years.
When Ringling objected, Hollow said to Judge Rollins, "Your Honor, a man who files a tax return is of sound mind."
"That's debatable," said the ultraconservative judge, drawing laughter from the courtroom.

Jeffery Deaver

#4. So I could see that Harlow was fundamentally untrustworthy. Simultaneously, she seemed like someone with whom I could be my true self. I had no intention of doing so and, with and equal and counterbalancing intensity, a great longing for it.

Karen Joy Fowler

#5. Basically, theater or film is a dangerous industrial environment.

John Rhys-Davies

#6. What did garden-parties and baskets and lace frocks matter to him? He was far from all those things. He was wonderful, beautiful.

Katherine Mansfield

#7. If you push down that pyramid of power and spread out the base, every member gets a chance to file their bill and have it heard and file their amendment and have it heard, as opposed to the system that we have now, which closes out, closes down bills, limits debate, and so forth.

Dan Webster

#8. A photograph to me is always a reminder of how the person was on a certain day in that certain light fixed. When I look at a watercolor of that same person, it seems to me alive, more open than a photograph.

Francesco Clemente

#9. Grief is not as heavy as guilt, but it takes more away from you.

Veronica Roth

#10. You may be sure, dear Crito, that inaccurate language is not only in itself a mistake: it implants evil in men's souls.

Plato

#11. Every city and town in America would be bankrupt if they kept their books the way private-sector companies keep their books - because of the obligation cities and towns have taken upon themselves to provide health care for their retirees.

Clayton M Christensen

#12. In the space, the pause between this breath and the one that follows, you have made a home inside me.

Tyler Knott Gregson