Maria Irene Fornes Quotes

#1. My dad, like any coach, has always stressed the fundamentals. He taught me responsibility, accountability, and the importance of hard work.

Steve Young

#2. We can only do what is possible for us to do. But still it is good to know what the impossible is.

Maria Irene Fornes

#3. I have to live with my decisions, whether you like them or not.

Maria Irene Fornes

#4. I've always been in love with Howard McGillen's voice, ever since I got wind of him.

Christine Ebersole

#5. Even the most understated ceremony involves a certain respect for ritual and pageantry. No one plays more of a significant role than the bride's attendants.

Vera Wang

#6. Design is based upon resolving how someone is going to use something. Great design is describing the very best experience for them, then moving towards that ideal.

Alan Moore

#7. When I'm not doing something that comes deeply from me, I get bored. When I get bored I get distracted and when I get distracted, I become depressed. It's a natural resistance, and it insures your integrity.

Maria Irene Fornes

#8. The Times are the masquerade of the eternities; trivial to the dull, tokens of noble and majestic agents to the wise; the receptacle in which the Past leaves its history; the quarry out of which the genius of today is building up the Future.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#9. Any good marriage is secret territory, a necessary white space on society's map. What others don't know about it is what makes it yours.

Stephen King

#10. The New England conscience doesn't keep you from doing what you shouldn't - it just keeps you from enjoying it.

Isaac Bashevis Singer

#11. If one of the arguments against eating meat is to do with cruelty and animal intelligence, then lab meat avoids that. There's also the environmental argument for it.

Margaret Atwood

#12. The pale whiteness of her upturned face as she choked on the smoke; the tangled length of her hair as she tried to shake the flames from it; the beauty of her cherry-blossom robe as it burst into flame: it was all so cruel, so terrible!

Ryunosuke Akutagawa