Scodella Wethersfield Quotes

#1. When I hear a critic speaking of an author's sincerity I know that either the critic or the author is a fool

Vladimir Nabokov

#2. In the mid-1990s, when Russia was undergoing a construction boom, I entered the real estate development market.

Yelena Baturina

#3. Martial (the main character of LOCUS SOLUS) has a very interesting conception of literary beauty: the work must contain nothing real, no observations about the world or the mind, nothing but completely imaginary constructions. These are in themselves ideas from an extrahuman world.

Pierre Janet

#4. When an actor is completely absorbed by some profoundly moving objective so that he throws his whole being passionately into its execution, he reaches a state we call inspiration.

Constantin Stanislavski

#5. Hindsight, usually looked down upon, is probably as valuable as foresight, since it does include a few facts.

Grace Paley

#6. But Sarah Weddingtonhad never told me that what I was signing would allow women to use abortions as a form of birth control. We talked about truly desperate and needy women, not women already wearing maternity clothes,

Norma McCorvey

#7. All I've ever wanted for my kids is for them to be happy. There's no pressure on Victoria to do anything, but she genuinely loves performing. My son Simon is in advertising. They're both tremendous people. I don't think they've ever been awkward, even Simon as a teenager.

Tony Blackburn

#8. I do think - as self-serving as it sounds - that I was the right person, given the very, very strong headwind we had from the economy and our own issues, to come back and rewrite the future of the company.

Howard Schultz

#9. Teaching people to draw is teaching people to look

David Hockney

#10. Hip-hop is such a wide statement of culture that everyone is not the same, and it's impossible to put it into one box.

Russell Simmons

#11. All learning is ultimately self-learning.

Milton Friedman