Quotes About Literary Movements

#1. What I find really interesting is to try and mix it up, to push myself and try different things. I don't want to stay in my comfort zone. I want to take risks and keep myself scared.

Michael Fassbender

#2. As long as we are not ourselves, we will try to be what other people are.

Malidoma Patrice Some

#3. I grew up in a family of Republicans. And when I was 18 and registering to vote, my mom's only instruction was 'You just go in and pull the big Republican lever.' That's my welcome to adulthood. She's like, 'No, don't even read it. Just pull the Republican lever.

Tina Fey

#4. The procreation of [the diseased, the feeble-minded and paupers] should be stopped.

Margaret Sanger

#5. He that speaketh against his own reason speaks against his own conscience, and therefore it is certain that no man serves God with a good conscience who serves him against his reason.

Jeremy Taylor

#6. A postcard and I'm pining for New England. . .

Amy Ballard

#7. The critical method which denies literary modernity would appear - and even, in certain respects, would be - the most modern of critical movements.

Paul De Man

#8. I wanted to make a movie about a black family in Middle America. I wanted to make a film where everyone can look at them and say, 'This is my family.'

George Tillman Jr.

#9. So the goal of spiritual leadership is to muster people to join God in living for God's glory.

John Piper

#10. I know this because Tyler knows this.

Chuck Palahniuk

#11. There's the dual challenge of wanting to speak from an authentic place, and then being able to be honest about it. Even in the most mannered art, I think that's what people value, is a voice that comes from a real place.

John Darnielle

#12. I danced in a company of 'West Side Story' when I was very young. It was most of the original cast - Larry Kert, Chita Rivera - and Jerry Robbins directed. It was tough, a wonderful initiation for me.

Teri Garr

#13. When you're in a crisis of, you know, tremendous proportions, it's beyond any human capability to control, you just make the best decisions you can, and you just hope that your intuition is correct.

Rudy Giuliani

#14. Every organization has to prepare for the abandonment of everything it does.

Peter Drucker

#15. There are some actors who are my contemporaries who I think of as purebreds and I'm not.

Sally Field