Golden Twenties Quotes

#1. There are two kinds of taste in the appreciation of imaginative literature: the taste for emotions of surprise and the taste for emotions of recognition.

Henry James

#2. Writing is a dying form. One reads of this every day.

Lemony Snicket

#3. The only safe thing in filmmaking is to take a chance.

Mike Nichols

#4. Fame is vanity's bait.

Toba Beta

#5. It's better to be kind than to be right.

Anne Lamott

#6. There are pigs like me that wallow in their destiny, not drawing away from the banality of daily life because they're enthralled by their own impotence.

Fernando Pessoa

#7. When we finish a book, why do we hold it in both hands and gaze at it as if it were somehow alive?

Lynda Barry

#8. It's changed throughout the years, but at one time I was a really big bubble gum ice cream fan. I'd spit the bubble gum pieces in a cup and then collect them.

Timothy Olyphant

#9. Walmart's Global Women's Economic Empowerment Initiative is working to create opportunity and empower women and girls in markets around the world.

Sylvia Mathews Burwell

#10. And the so-called 'political process' is a fraud: Our elected officials, like our bureaucratic functionaries, like even our judges, are largely the indentured servants of the commercial interests.

Edward Abbey

#11. The trajectory of my writing has moved further and further away from autobiography. My first stories in Confessions of a Falling Woman worked familiar territory - places I had lived, people I knew, my life as an actor in New York - and many were prompted by or grounded in personal experience.

Debra Dean

#12. Jesus is a powerful guy in Hollywood. Not quite as powerful as Vin Diesel, but powerful.

Christian Finnegan

#13. When you got your hand in the lion's mouth, don't do nothin' til you get it out.

Big Bill Broonzy

#14. If you're going to answer the call and you're going to transform and you're going to change, get ready. It is not a day at the beach.

Elizabeth Gilbert