No agent wants to see a book until he or she has decided whether to pursue the relationship.
I felt like I was a teacher. But nowadays, I am as much a student of his. He writes a lot of what we play.
In France, I learned about wine and cheese.
Soloist: [singing the Ave Maria] Ave Maria! Heaven's bride. The bells ring out in solemn praise, for you, the anguish and the pride. The living glory of our nights, of our nights and days. The prince of peace your arms embrace, while hosts of darknes...
[last lines] Maria Hill: Sir, how does it work now? They've gone their separate ways, some pretty extremely far. We get into a situation like this again, what happens then? Nick Fury: They'll come back. Maria Hill: You really sure about that? Nick Fu...
If there is one ‘constant’ in the structure and theme of the wonder tale, it is transformation.
single people without children have a "childish sensitivity and are unwilling or unable to compromise or fit in
Meaning is produced not only by the relationship between the signifier and the signified but also, crucially, by the position of the signifiers in relation to other signifiers.
We need to stop saying we can't rock this boat when it needs to be rocked.
Without asking anybody’s advice I turned myself insane sitting under the same sun and the same clouds.
These heads sheltered by umbrellas be they of Zeb-un-Nisa, or Catherine of Cleopatra or Fenichka live with their own stories
In how many minds should I go crazy? Whom should I ask?
Cheers to a new year and another chance for us to get it right.
It's easy to imagine ways the future can be ugly and depressing. It's harder, but more worthwhile, to imagine plausible ways we can make it better.
In valley drift we meet commonly with the bones of quadrupeds which graze on plains bordering rivers.
He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose.
He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain that which he cannot lose.
Perimeter is not meaning, but it changes meaning,/as wit increases distance, and compassion erodes it.
In other words, the man who is born into existence deals first with language; this is a given. He is even caught in it before his birth.
Writings scatter to the winds blank checks in an insane charge. And were they not such flying leaves, there would be no purloined letters.
At a dinner party one should eat wisely but not too well, and talk well but not too wisely.
