Polasek Iowa Quotes

#1. Of course art world ethics are important. But museums are no purer than any other institution or business. Academics aren't necessarily more high-minded than gallerists.

Jerry Saltz

#2. You can't learn to write that way - by writing directly for the screen. Wait until you're 30. But in the meantime write 200 short stories. You've got to learn how to write!

Ray Bradbury

#3. When we recognise that unity of all living things, then at once arises the question - how can we support this life of ours with least injury to the lives around us; how can we prevent our own life adding to the suffering of the world in which we live?

Annie Besant

#4. Women today have more of an overview of their lives and how marriage is or is not a part of it.

Helen Reddy

#5. Here's to you. Here's to me. Friends for life we'll always be. If we should ever disagree, fuck you. Here's to me.

T.K. Leigh

#6. When I began to read as an adult, I read almost exclusively novelists of a generation back. I did the Russians, then I started getting more up to date. When you become published and become a reviewer, piles of books come along and you are pushed by fashion and what you are commissioned to do.

Hilary Mantel

#7. I love you because that piece that remains is worth the whole and I love you by exclusion of the other lost pieces.

Erri De Luca

#8. A child can have too many toys, but never
enough books.

Jarrett J. Krosoczka

#9. My idea of the perfect exercise class is this: The teacher gives us all a hug and goes, 'You did it! You showed up! Let's lie down.' We all lie down and she's like, 'How is everybody feeling?' We're like, 'Great!' And the teacher's like, 'Great!' Then we all get to leave 20 minutes early.

Amy Poehler

#10. As the skull of the man grows broader, so do his creeds. And his gods they are shaped in his image and mirror his needs. And he clothes them with thunders and beauty, He clothes them with music and fire, Seeing not, as he bows by their altars, That he worships his own desire.

Don Marquis

#11. The busyness of your life leaves little room for the source of your life.

Ann Voskamp

#12. I know now that this isn't true love or perfection or happily ever after. It's not even meant to be. This is a broken condom at the end of a drunken night. This is a generational walk of shame with two hundred spectators

Christina Meredith

#13. Happiness cannot last, he thought. It is too intense.

Wilbur Smith