Mantegari Brentwood Quotes

#1. Censors are necessary, increasingly necessary, if America is to avoid having a vital literature.

Don Marquis

#2. I had felt no hatred in all the years when they rejected me. If my work was new, I had to give them time to learn, if I took pride in being first to break a trail to a height of my own, I had no right to complain if others were slow to follow.

Ayn Rand

#3. Does no good to nail an unattached branch to the vine; there is no life-giving connection. But those branches that are an integral part of the vine share in the life of the vine.

Jerry Bridges

#4. Like the resource it seeks to protect, wildlife conservation must be dynamic, changing as conditions change, seeking always to become more effective.

Rachel Carson

#5. If my career isn't going that well, I'd rather it flounder than desperately trying to show up on red carpets: 'I'm for hire! Remember me!'

James McAvoy

#6. I don't want to be the oldest performer in captivity ... I don't want to look like a little old man dancing out there.

Fred Astaire

#7. The No. 1 cause of preventable death for young black men is not auto accidents or accidental drowning, but homicide.

Larry Elder

#8. I see the job of directing as being one of creating the right atmosphere, creating an environment where people can realize their full potential.

Joe Wright

#9. Unlove's the heavenless hell and the homeless home

E. E. Cummings

#10. The amiable is a duty most certainly, but must not be exercised at the expense of any of the virtues. He who seeks to do the amiable always, can only be successful at the frequent expense of his manhood.

William Gilmore Simms

#11. There are disappointments which wring us, and there are those which inflict a wound whose mark we bear to our graves. Such are so keen that no future gratification of the same desire can ever obliterate them: they become registered as a permanent loss of happiness.

Thomas Hardy

#12. My grandmother really liked virgins. There's nothing wrong with virgins, there's a time and a place for that. I had other things on my mind ... like Robert Plant.

Tori Amos