Jaime Escalante Famous Quotes

#1. A box is more a coffin for the human spirit than an inspiration.

Frank Lloyd Wright

#2. The stagnation of the Japanese economy in the past 20 years is eloquent testimony to the fact that government usually gets it wrong. Sometimes it makes the wrong decision because it fails to anticipate the market (as Japan did when it downplayed laptop computers and stressed mainframes).

Dick Morris

#3. You write in order to change the world ... if you alter, even by a millimeter, the way people look at reality, then you can change it.

James Baldwin

#4. God thinks in the geniusses, he dreams in the poets and slumbers in the rest of humanity.

Peter Altenberg

#5. They haven't made love for years but sleep holding hands

Simon Van Booy

#6. We ride through life on the beast within us. Beat the animal, but you can't make it think.

Luigi Pirandello

#7. I hadn't done anything in six years; I was just vegetating.

Joseph Wambaugh

#8. I think that the present is worth attention, one shouldn't sacrifice it to future conceptions of, of this future or that future.

Tom Stoppard

#9. Listen: Love your fiction, even if you hate the act of creating that fiction, love the stories to a fault. Cry at your tragedies, laugh at your jokes, rejoice at your character's victories - or give it all up and go knit a damned sweater, instead.

Caitlin R. Kiernan

#10. The whole thing with animated movies is that it's very hard to get out of your head because it's very moving through each line systematically.

Bill Hader

#11. Perhaps women have always been in closer contact with reality than men: it would seem to be the just recompense for being deprived of idealism.

Germaine Greer

#12. The end of secrecy would be the end of the novel - especially the English novel. The English novel requires social secrecy, personal secrecy.

Ian McEwan