Van Alen District Quotes

#1. Youth, art, love, dreams, true-heartedness - why must they go out of the summer world into darkness?

Willa Cather

#2. Be with Allah,
You will find Allah with you.

Abd Al-Ghani Al-Nabulsi

#3. I just used a very simple way to explain what are deep ideas, and why can't that be literature?

Mian Mian

#4. Passion moves freely across borders, speaks every language, and flourishes in every culture. The movement of passion is the most gratifying satisfaction in any moviemaker's life.

Saul Zaentz

#5. I paint the cot, As truth will paint it, and as bards will not.

George Crabbe

#6. On good teams coaches hold players accountable, on great teams players hold players accountable

Joe Dumars

#7. Economic engineering is about the design and analysis of frameworks for achieving specific economic objectives.

Ben Bernanke

#8. Love always trust and forgives.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#9. Best friends listen to what you don't say.

Samantha Norman

#10. I like quinoa. I like gingerbread. I feel they should be kept separate. I'm not in favor of this thing of making kind of raw, vegan chocolate cake and saying it's as good as chocolate cake. I mean, just eat cake and be done with it. And then have a separate meal of quinoa.

Bee Wilson

#11. I learnt more about politics during one South Dakota dust storm than in seven years at the university.

Hubert H. Humphrey

#12. The Press is the living jury of the Nation." James Gordon Bennett, editor of the New York Herald in 1841

Daniel Stashower

#13. Mozart and Neil Diamond may have begun with the same idea, but that a work of art is more than an idea is confirmed by the difference between the 'Soave sia il vento' and 'Kentucky Woman.' We have different words for 'art' and 'idea' because they are two different things.

Mark Helprin

#14. I wanted to be a writer, but at the time, I spent my days working a retail job, my nights sleeping in my childhood bedroom, and while I had written short stories here and there, I didn't know how to write good fiction anymore than I knew how to perform good brain surgery.

Anthony Marra