Affiorare Quotes & Sayings

What have we got here in America that we believe we cannot live without? We have the most varied and imaginative bathrooms in the world, we have kitchens with the most gimmicks, we have houses with every possible electrical gadget to save ourselves all kinds of trouble - all so that we can have leisure. Leisure, leisure, leisure! So that we don't go mad in the leisure, we have color TV. So that there will never, never, be a moment of silence, we have radio and Muzak. We can't stand silence, because silence includes thinking. And if we thought, we would have to face ourselves. — Agnes De Mille

I know now that everybody in the arts is forever a beginner. Experience counts for a great deal and very little. Every night onstage I feel I am starting from scratch, still not quite sure what I am doing and where I am going, thrown by the simplest thing that goes wrong. — Joan Rivers

His wife, Gerry, was a truly stunning blonde in her middle twenties, tall and gracious, but with eyes just a little cold to match a smile so warm and welcoming. — John D. MacDonald

Gideon, Barak, Samson, Jephthah, of David and Samuel and the prophets. All these also did not receive what was promised but greeted it from afar, and then there are all those who did not much believe in the promise to begin with, and it is not always possible to tell the two apart. — Frederick Buechner

I had always written. I had written stories and poems. Then I started writing plays. — Lena Dunham

Junior athletics is but one facet of the real gem: life's endless war against the self you cannot live without. — David Foster Wallace

Paranoid eyes with the fusion of passion and duplicity. — J.G. Ballard

The best time to buy a home is always five years ago. — Ray Brown

No one ever tells you that: that there's no method. Writing's a lawless place. — Naomi Wood

I think the most useful thing you can do as a writer is to reconstruct real life with all its color, hardship, joy, and intrigue. If you're interested in people, you honor them best, I think, by making the fullest possible picture of them. Your subjects may - and from my experience probably will - protest your portrait of them. — Rosemary Mahoney

Soul mates, I've always believed in, so I accepted the truth there. But curses? That was extreme. There had to be a place where the line was drawn between fiction and reality, and a curse sounded way more on the fiction side of the spectrum. — Michelle Madow

When I arrived, he was in the kitchen, in the middle of his Sunday morning ritual of cleaning his cleaning supplies. — Lee Goldberg