Graham Wallas Quotes

#1. Graham Wallas has reminded us that writing as compared with speaking involves an impression at the second remove and reading an impression at the third remove. The voice of a second-rate person is more impressive than the published opinion of superior ability.

Harold Innis

#2. Whenever I hear anything described as a heartless assault on our children I tend to think it's a good idea.

William Kristol

#3. A world of death is a world of stagnation, without the change that makes it worthwhile. What you call uncertainty, I call life itself.

Graham McNeill

#4. A novel is utterly your own creation, a very private process. I think of a novel as a noun and a screenplay as a verb. In a novel, very little needs to happen; you can explore a person's memories and thoughts and fantasies. In a screenplay, it's all action; you must push the story on.

Deborah Moggach

#5. And if novelties are to be shunned, believe me, the most alarming of all novelties, the most wild of all projects, the most rash of all attempts, is that of rending us in pieces, in order to preserve our liberties, and promote our happiness.

James Madison

#6. Leo's very existence had been a kind of perpetual punishment for Vasili. So, then, why did he miss him?

Tom Rob Smith

#7. There is a greater gift than the trust of others. That is to trust in oneself. Some might call it confidence, others name it faith. But if it makes us brave, the label doesn't matter ... for it's the thing that frees us, to embrace life itself.

Jennifer Worth

#8. I remember being intrigued by the idea of school-in-a-box, just-add-water-and-Sam.

Maggie Stiefvater

#9. A peace agreement isn't like a fairy story. You don't live happily ever after.

Jonathan Powell

#10. War is hell and waiting is hell and war is waiting.

Lily Burana

#11. Fred Armisen does a pretty good me.

Bill Hader

#12. I adore the elegance of botanical realism but I also can't help but dream of my very own neo-surrealistic fantasy flowers, and so I paint and illustrate both; I always find myself between both of those worlds.

Minnelli Lucy France

#13. We'd go to his apartment and play Kaboom! and Tank instead of fooling around. I guess to some people that might have been weird, but I got my rocks off watching someone be amazing at Duck Hunt. Whatever.

Felicia Day