Interim Report Quotes

#1. Once I read autobiography as what the writer thought about his or her life. Now I think, 'This is what they thought at that time'. An interim report - that is what an autobiography is.

Doris Lessing

#2. Any idiot can face a crisis - it's day to day living that wears you out.

Clifford Odets

#3. [She] went around with a beatific smile on her face that could be very irritating if you yourself weren't feeling beatific.

Kate Atkinson

#4. As I lay, a pink, dreamlike glow seeped into the room, gradually turning a bright, chemical red. The light inched towards the bed, slowly picking out our two bodies - developing us, I thought, the way photographs used to be made - until it was daylight and everything had its normal definition.

Olivia Sudjic

#5. The scientific evidence of how serious this climate crisis is becoming continues to amass week after week after week.

Al Gore

#6. Kind of bored and sort of sad.

Sandy Hall

#7. The failure of the system to deal quickly was attributable to Nixon's lying, stonewalling and refusal to come clean. So it took 26 months for the final truth to be known.

Bob Woodward

#8. We cover hamburgers, chicken, veggie burgers, salads, we've got a pretty broad range. To me, McDonald's isn't only about the food. It's about the prices, it's about the way we eat.

Jim Cantalupo

#9. I don't recall inclement weather on a fair day.

John Updike

#10. You might, from your appearance, be the wife of Lucifer," said Miss Pross, in her breathing. "Nevertheless, you shall not get the better of me. I am an Englishwoman.

Charles Dickens

#11. Show me a Scorsese film, and I'll show you a movie where he's taken risks. It's just his nature. He's an artist, and artists take risks. He always does what he believes in.

Irwin Winkler