Roger Rosenblatt Quotes

No writer besides Shakespeare has created more memorable characters attached to vices and virtues. In even their least sympathetic characters, one senses a kind of helplessness to passion quivering between the poles of good and evil.

Roger Rosenblatt

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GoodPassionGood And EvilEvilKind

Behind it all is surely an idea so simple, so beautiful, that when we grasp it - in a decade, a century, or a millennium - we will all say to each other, how could it have been otherwise? How could we have been so stupid?

John Archibald Wheeler

BeautifulSimpleStupidSayWill

Become that rare person where people know that your word is your bond and you're going to do exactly what you say you're going to do.

John W. Rogers, Jr.

PeopleBondYouPersonKnowBecome

It's crazy how fast you get out of shape if you miss a couple days of action.

Stephen Curry

CrazyActionYouFastOutShape

I used to take my car and go down to the South Island for five or six days and climb glaciers and jump out of planes and jump off bridges and go white water rafting - a bit of thrill-seeking.

Luke Evans

CarWaterClimbBridgesWhiteDown

The problem is once you've written the opening paragraph and worked out how the rest of the story will go in your head, there's nothing in it for you. I write in longhand using disposable fountain pens on the right-hand side of the notebook for the first draft, then I rewrite some of the sentences and paragraphs on the left-hand side.

Colm Toibin

RestStoryProblemYouGoNothing

I read a lot when I'm away. I love courtroom dramas and I'm always looking for new authors.

Bruce Forsyth

LoveLookingNewAlwaysCourtroom

There's going to be people that try to sway you to do things that you shouldn't do.

Ally Brooke

PeopleYouTryThingsGoingSway

If I am to choose two words that best describes myself, they are 'self-esteem' and 'guts.' Guts helped me become a global model.

Sung Jin Park

MyselfBestWordsI AmMeChoose

Nothing, not even human life, is more precious to us than our myths about ourselves.

Svetlana Alexievich

LifeNothingMoreHumanHuman Life

Everybody in Odd Future is their own artist - they have their own friends and their own ideas for things - so we all spent quite a lot of time separated.

Syd

FutureTimeIdeasFriendsArtist

What is interesting to me is looking at how male and female writers depict men who, come in behind to fill those domestic duties, deal with personal and cultural lack of respect for doing what is lingeringly perceived as 'women's work.'

Sherwood Smith

WorkWomenRespectMenMeLooking

I am proud of my Italian heritage, and nothing I have said should be interpreted as an attempt at minimizing its value.

Sergio Marchionne

I AmValueProudHeritageSaidAm

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