Painted Bunting Quotes

#1. Since I first picked up the violin, I've been very interested in tone and texture: I would have very visceral reactions to the texture of a snare drum or a pedal steel guitar or a violin.

Andrew Bird

#2. ... it is so much better to work for others than for one's self alone.

Louisa May Alcott

#3. There is an established tradition of actors directing films that have a particular, personal meaning for them - Warren Beatty, Clint Eastwood, Kevin Costner, and most recently George Clooney to name a few. Remarkably, their films share an unusually high percentage of being very good.

Steven Van Zandt

#4. I'm not a bad person. At least that's what I tell myself over and over as I wend my way through the marketplace, past the vendors selling spiced meats and bright fabric, incense and rare birds.

Breeana Shields

#5. Nothing revives the past so completely as a smell that was once associated with it.

Vladimir Nabokov

#6. Without dignity, identity is erased.

Laura Hillenbrand

#7. This is the first great problem of modern democracy ... how to get a fair living by reasonable hours of work leaving enough leisure for both childhood and manhood.

John R. Commons

#8. When you're working on something that's really emotional and powerful, it's inspiring. You get it done because you know it's going to be great.

Paul Briggs

#9. I made it about a three-day weekend so people wouldn't have to change their clothes a lot. We didn't have an art department; we didn't have a make-up department.

John Sayles

#10. I wanted to be an actor because it gave me the opportunity to express myself in ways I wasn't comfortable expressing myself, as a kid growing up in St. Louis.

Scott Bakula