Home
Topics
Authors
:
A
B
C
D
E
F
G
H
I
J
K
L
M
N
O
P
Q
R
S
T
U
V
W
X
Y
Z

Martin Filler Quotes

Elevated locations imply elevated purposes, even in American cities departing as radically as Los Angeles does from the traditional planning patterns of the Eastern Seaboard.

Martin Filler

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: critic
Nationality: american
Birth: September 17, 1948

Topics

Planning American Los Angeles Even

We didn't have television until I was about eight years old, so it was either the movies or radio. A lot of radio drama. That was our television, you know. We had to use our imagination. So it was really those two things, and the comics, that I immersed myself in as a child.

Jessica Hagedorn

Myself Imagination Child You Drama

Roy, the guy I play in 'The Grifters,' is a guy who had a very bleak life. His mother had him at 13, and then when she was 17 or 18 and he was 4 or 5, they were trapped in a small Texas town somewhere, and she was ready to do anything to get out.

John Cusack

Life Mother Small Texas Ready Play

When I was 10, I would only shop in the guys' section at the Gap.

Sofia Richie

Only Gap Would Guys Section Shop

Taxes are way too complicated, and people spend way too much time worrying about ways to get them lower.

Steve Mnuchin

Time People Too Much Complicated Way

I often say that shareholders should feel very responsible for how responsive corporations are to the public trust.

Ruth J. Simmons

Trust Feel Say Responsible How

Along with the lazy man... the dying man is the immoral man: the former, a subject that does not work; the latter, an object that no longer even makes itself available to be worked on by others.

Michel De Certeau

Work Man Lazy Others Dying Along

The truth is that anyone... that wants to subvert our Constitution to Shariah Law is an enemy of the United States.

Louie Gohmert

Truth Law Constitution Truth Is Our

Those who know New York City primarily through tourism or mass culture may think of us natives as possessing certain shared characteristics, not all of them flattering. But the true, volatile charisma of New York lies in how balkanised it is.

Jonathan Dee

Culture New York City Think Know

My mother taught me to read in part by reading me Walt Disney comics, and I never stopped.

Diana Gabaldon

Mother Me Reading Never Read Comics

In some countries, as many as 91 percent of women have no one at their side to assist them during labor and delivery.

Christy Turlington

Women Labor Side Delivery Percent

I absolutely loved basketball. All I ever wanted to do was play basketball.

Brooke Sweat

Basketball Loved Play Absolutely

To lose one's self in reverie, one must be either very happy, or very unhappy. Reverie is the child of extremes.

Antoine Rivarol

Happy Child Self Unhappy Lose Must