Typical American Gish Jen Quotes

#1. Final cut is overrated. Only fools keep insisting on always having the final word. The wise swallow their pride in order to get to the best possible cut.

Wim Wenders

#2. All, the intelligent and stupid, diligent and idle, have been swept along on a current of increased output that, in the usual case, owed nothing whatever to their efforts.

John Kenneth Galbraith

#3. I stay fat because it just wouldn't be fair to all the thin people if I were this good-looking, intelligent, funny, and thin. It's a public service really.

Rebel Wilson

#4. Mirabelle, who never takes credit for her attractiveness, believes it is not she he is responding to, but rather something independent of her.

Steve Martin

#5. It's not good to live so much inside oneself. It's a self-imposed exile, really. It makes you different.

Nancy Horan

#6. If I make a movie in English, the money will come from Europe, so that I can keep my independence and freedom. The way they produce in Hollywood doesn't fit me.

Pedro Almodovar

#7. It is telling commentary on economic orthodoxy that a whole subdiscipline--behavioral economics--and a raft of lab experiments are needed to show that humans often fail to behave with the rationality expected of them.

Kaushik Basu

#8. Are they saying that the trees are just as special as I am?"

"No, we're saying that was always between you and the trees.

P.B. Gookenschleim

#9. Those who are not interested in politics will be forever ruled by those who are.

G. Edward Griffin

#10. I realized early that unless you're willing to kill the innocent, you can't win.

Pat Conroy

#11. The costume of women should be suited to her wants and necessities. It should conduce at once to her health, comfort, and usefulness; and, while it should not fail also to conduce to her personal adornment, it should make that end of secondary importance

Amelia Bloomer

#12. She hadn't chosen him over all the others. The truth was that she hadn't even thought about anyone else.

Paolo Giordano

#13. You have to be very flexible and understand as a director, especially as a writer/director, that you cannot hang onto stuff really hard. You have to be ready to accept those happy accidents and to anticipate that they are going to happen and capitalize on them.

David M. Evans

#14. Consciousness is our only reprieve from Time.

Mason Cooley