"An often-repeated assertion in the body of film criticism I have written is the assertion that movies do not just mirror the culture of any given time they also create it."
bell hooks
"Learning from the past helps to ensure that mistakes are not repeated."
Monica Johnson
"The truth isn't always beauty, but the hunger for it is."
Nadine Gordimer
"What a prodigious conscience must that be that can be at quiet within itself whilst it harbors under thesame roof, with so agreeing and so calm a society, both the crime and the judge?"
Michel de Montaigne
"Politics is downstream from culture and not the other way around."
Timothy S. Goeglein
"But the book! The siren song of the book!"
Ellen Douglas
"The 50-50-90 rule: Anytime you have a 50-50 chance of getting something right, there's a 90% probability you'll get it wrong."
Andy Rooney
"I always tell my writing students that every good piece of writing begins with both a mystery and a love story. And that every single sentence must be a poem. And that economy is the key to all good writing. And that every character has to have a secret."
Silas House
"I think the rules where different there. It was all about science, but the science was magical. It didn't care about whether something could be done. It was about whether it should be done, and the answer was always, always yes."
Seanan McGuire
"Creative work is often driven by pain. It may be that if you don't have something in the back of your head driving you nuts, you may not do anything. It's not a good arrangement. If I were God, I wouldn't have done it that way., Nov. 20, 2009]."
Cormac McCarthy
"Nothing represents a man better than his ideas."
Anonymous
"Vietnam was a palpable failure. And of course, in retrospect, it was even more clearly a disaster and a failure than maybe people understood at the time."
Robert Dallek
"Meekness: Uncommon patience in planning a revenge that is worth while."
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