What The Mysteries of Udolpho suggests is how a novel, by presenting phenomena before it present resolutions, can create an on-going, perhaps spurious, but nevertheless compelling dynamic between details which can undermine the ability of form to imp...
One might also say that history is not about the past. If you think about it, no one ever lived in the past. Washington, Jefferson, John Adams, and their contemporaries didn't walk about saying, "Isn't this fascinating living in the past! Aren't we p...
He who travels much has this advantage over others – that the things he remembers soon become remote, so that in a short time they acquire the vague and poetical quality which is only given to other things by time. He who has not traveled at all ha...
Contrary to popular belief, the past was not more eventful than the present. If seems so it is because when you look backward things that happened years apart are telescoped together, and because very few of your memories come to you genuinely virgin...
During the first half of the present century we had an , who was able to scan the scientific knowledge of his time in its details, and to bring it within one vast generalization. At the present juncture, it is obviously very doubtful whether this tas...
I don't want to force anything on anyone. I'm not trying to bust you over the head and make you buy this record or this song or whatever. I'm presenting it to you so you can take it in. You know, it's like trying to force a kid to eat broccoli. If I ...
Sometimes, situation may be uncomfortable but must endure.
I think serious situations actually make for the best kind of belly laughs. But they're also the hardest to convert into comedy at the outset.
The team that is the most focused and executes the best is the team that wins. That's usually the team that can handle the pressure of the situation.
In Iraq, embedding allows us to put reporters in situations that would otherwise be too dangerous for them.
There is no worse situation to be in than Oscar night. Not knowing whether you've won is completely draining.
After things started to happen here, my choice of material was extremely limited. It was a weird situation.
All communication is a sign of failure. If everybody is pleased with the situation, then there is no need for communication.
Whether we like it or not, gender differences matter in a combat situation.
But, right now, the situation is that almost all of my writing is out of print.
Whatever the situation at hand, that's what I'm dealing with and trying to be true to it in that moment.
The telling of any character is what they do in a different situation.
I tend to be sort of quiet and shy and awkward in social situations.
If I'm in a situation where someone doesn't recognize me and treats me like everyone else, I'm not used to it.
When I do a Western, I often wonder what I would have really done in that situation.
Be thankful and joyful. Be content with life. Make the most of every situation.
