Lapine's Quotes

#1. There are many people who will stay in negative situation because it is familiar, rather than go where there is promise of something good, because that would be something unfamiliar

Stormie O'martian

#2. Imagination is a poor matter when it has to part company with understanding.

Thomas Carlyle

#3. A triangle with four points is what Euclid rides into hell.

Steve Martin

#4. Must it all be either less or more, Either plain or grand?

James Lapine Stephen Sondheim

#5. During 'Chicago Hope,' I never let directors talk to me, because I was so spoiled. I started off with people like Milos Forman, Sidney Lumet, James Lapine, unbelievably gifted people. So there I was, saying, 'Don't talk to me, I don't want your opinion.' I behaved abominably.

Mandy Patinkin

#6. To my mind, 'Dear Brutus' stands halfway between Shakespeare's 'A Midsummer Night's Dream' and Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine's 'Into the Woods'. Like them, it is a play about enchantment and disillusion, dreams and reality.

Michael Dirda

#7. What use is it to endure the Dutch Rubs and Indian Rope Burns that are politics if you can't obtain mastery over people and give them noogies back?

P. J. O'Rourke

#8. Faith thanks God in the middle of the story.

Ann Voskamp

#9. If you don't write with the reader in mind, you are not a writer, period.

Tom Grimes

#10. The older I get, Mr. Lapine, the more I realize it's sometimes preferable not knowing the answers to things. In fact, I often wish I'd never heard the question.

Tracy Guzeman

#11. The relationship between professional and domestic cook has similarities to a sexual encounter. One party is normally more experienced than the other; and either party should have the right, at any moment, to say, No, I'm not going to do that.

Julian Barnes

#12. Nothing good was ever learned from eavesdropping, so mind your business and let others mind theirs.

Maryrose Wood

#13. Don't expect to get anything back, don't expect recognition for your efforts, don't expect your genius to be discovered or your love to be understood. Act because you need to act

Paulo Coelho

#14. Peace is so beneficial that the word itself is pleasant to hear.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

#15. The baptized in their sense of mission, through prayer, the witness of life and Christian commitment in all its forms, so that all the faithful may become missionaries in the places where they live and that vocations will come forth to proclaim the Gospel to men who do not yet know it.

Pope Benedict XVI

#16. Then give me your answer." He crushed a brief, impassioned kiss against her lips. "Say it, or I'll have to keep kissing you until you surrender.

Lisa Kleypas

#17. Lives are staged from within.

Simon Van Booy

#18. I am an unrepentant tweetaholic. I use the communications service all day long to discover news, interesting tidbits and, of course, to flack the work of our tech and media news site, Re/code.

Kara Swisher

#19. Being at a loss to resolve these questions, I am resolved to leave them without any resolution.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#20. dark-gray cylinder,

Nicholson Baker