Politiscenti Quotes

#1. Never look for the story in the 'lede.' Reporters are required to put what's happened up top, but the practiced pundit places a nugget of news, even a startling insight, halfway down the column, directed at the politiscenti. When pressed for time, the savvy reader starts there.

William Safire

#2. Against the sky, she is exquisitely elsewhere.

Deb Caletti

#3. All you have been waiting for is your own permission.

Pat Rodegast

#4. When I paint a person, his enemies always find the portrait a good likeness.

Edvard Munch

#5. Life is very mysterious and there are many things we don't know. And there are elements of magic realism in every culture, everywhere. It's just accepting that we don't know everything and everything is possible.

Isabel Allende

#6. I earned this, fair and square. We'll, maybe it hadn't been fair. And maybe it hadn't been precisely square. Still, she'd earned it legally. Legally and ... rectangularly. That would have to do.

Courtney Milan

#7. Anger, regret, resentment, blame, worry, and guilt all lead to one place: fear. Don't let that fear stand in the way of recognizing your true worth.

Charles F. Glassman

#8. Remove the world and the show still goes on.

David Eagleman

#9. I may be boring, but it would be to wake up by my dog and then my daughter.

Izabella Scorupco

#10. There is beauty behind me as I walk

There is beauty before me as I walk

There is beauty below me as I walk.

There is beauty above me as I walk.

In beauty I must always walk.

Amy Harmon

#11. I don't necessarily wait for that massive leading role. I want to keep the juices flowing.

Miranda Richardson

#12. I bought all the stuff, but nothing was as satisfying to me as using the Rolleiflex because it was one shot.

Matthew Modine