Hsiao Shu Quotes

#1. Television news was expanding to an hour, and producers did not know how to fill the space and time.

Joel Siegel

#2. Farber had a huge effect on me as a writer. I don't mean I write like him. Farber is, first of all, a great stylist, a great writer. Anyone can read Manny Farber's film criticism, whether that person is a novelist, a poet, another critic, a historian, and learn a lot about writing by reading him.

Greil Marcus

#3. Happiness is not a potato.

Charlotte Bronte

#4. An idea is an amazing creation of the human mind, which comes either as
a result of one's continuous endeavors for solving a certain problem or just
as a spark that lights up the considered problem.

Eraldo Banovac

#5. Economics has never been a science - and it is even less now than a few years ago.

Paul Samuelson

#6. The practice of sympathetic joy is rooted in inner development. It's not a matter of learning techniques to "make friends and influence people." Instead, we build the foundations of our own happiness. When our own cup is full, we more easily share it with others.

Sharon Salzberg

#7. Ghosts have a way of misleading you; they can make your thoughts as heavy as branches after a storm.

Rebecca Maizel

#8. One of the things I've discovered at my age is I must have enchantment. And that was not clear to me in my earlier years. When I look at my favorite films, the Frank Capra - even Scorsese, even 'Goodfellas,' what makes that movie so remarkable is there's enchantment in their world.

David O. Russell

#9. To speak of the impotence of power is no longer a witty paradox.

Hannah Arendt

#10. An empty envelope that is sealed contains a secret.

Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

#11. Memory is a complicated thing, a relative to truth, but not its twin.

Barbara Kingsolver

#12. I want those young whipper-snappers to know that in days past we actually used to kill trees and make those things called books.

Eric Jerome Dickey

#13. Nixon under pressure turned only to reporters from publications already favorable to him; Kennedy, in trouble, turned to those most critical and dubious of him, and if anything tended to take those already for him a bit for granted.

David Halberstam