A View From The Bridge Alfieri Key Quotes & Sayings

You went up to be examined with the other Jewish children, your heart heavy about that matter of your nose. — Mary Antin

My nerves did a jitter dance, stuck between two wolves. — Jazz Feylynn

What is the quality of your intent? — Thurgood Marshall

All you have to do is follow three simple rules. One, never underestimate your opponent. Expect the unexpected. Two, take it outside. Never start anything inside the bar unless it's absolutely necessary. And three, be nice. — Patrick Swayze

I happen to love working in cinema, but the theater is always there ... you know, and I would never shut the door on it. Even though it's been quite a bit of time since I've done a play, last one was in New York. — Michael York

Besides, they say, when we eat something, what really happens is this. Our failing health starts fighting off the attacks of hunger, using the food as an ally. Gradually it begins to prevail, and, in this very process of winning back its normal strength, experiences the sense of enjoyment which we find so refreshing. Now, if health enjoys the actual battle, why wouldn't it also enjoy the victory? Or are we to suppose that when it has finally managed to regain its former vigour - the one thing that it has been fighting for all this time - it promptly falls into a coma, and fails to notice or take advantage of its success? As for the idea that one isn't conscious of health except through its opposite, they say that's quite untrue. Everyone's perfectly aware of feeling well, unless he's asleep or actually feeling ill. Even the most insensitive and apathetic sort of person will admit that it's delightful to be healthy - and what is delight, but a synonym for pleasure? — Thomas More

You should tell her how nice
her outfit is because her outfit is her choice whereas her face isn't. — Stephen Chbosky

Economists like to strike the pose of a scientist. I know, because I often do it myself. When I teach undergraduates, I very consciously describe the field of economics as a science, so no student would start the course thinking he was embarking on some squishy academic endeavor.'1 — Ha-Joon Chang

I did some school plays in elementary school, but that was it. — Jason Mewes

When people think of dance films, they don't really think of good stories. — Marques Houston

If it's not American, the French won't go see it. — Norman Spinrad

Among ourselves (Westerners), the people who are regarded as moral luminaries are those who forgo ordinary pleasures themselves and find compensation in interfering with the pleasures of others. — Bertrand Russell

'Molto Mario' was the show that sparked my entire interest in cooking. — Action Bronson