Amanda Spielman Quotes & Sayings

My friends have always told me that rock stardom was wasted on me. — Melissa Etheridge

Trust is essential for our social wellbeing. Without trusting the good will of others we retreat into bureaucracy, rules and demands for more law and order. Trust is based on positive experiences with other people an it grows with use. We need to trust that others are going be basically reasonable beings. — Eva Cox

take up your little burdens again, for though they seem heavy sometimes, they are good for us, and lighten as we learn to carry them. — Louisa May Alcott

I'm finding none. It's the same thing! It's about rhythms and beats and what connects to what. It's the same; the song has to connect to the story to get from this point to that point. So even though there may not be music in the show there is. You have to follow this delicate score. I don't think there's a huge difference. But, I don't have sore muscles! I'm not sore from dancing all day! — Kendra Kassebaum

History was not simply a catalogue of the dead and buried and benighted, but rather a vast new world to be pioneered; ...if you approached the past generously, so to speak - its people as humans, not facts, as modern in their time as we were in ours, who thought and felt as we do, the dead would live again, our equals, not our old-fashioned, hopelessly unenlightened, and backward inferiors. Humanity, to be fully known, had to be seen as changeless as well as ever changing. — Tony Hendra

Listen, there is no way any true man is going to let children live around him in his home and not discipline and teach, fight and mold them until they know all he knows. His goal is to make them better than he is. Being their friend is a distant second to this. — Victor Devlin

The person that inspires me and has inspired me my whole life is my grandmother. She's strong, head of the household, the person everyone turns to, the one that can solve problems. She's just so warm and caring, loving, but at the same time very strong and can do anything, in my eyes. A great role model and someone that I aspire to be like in life. — Daniella Alonso

Lloyd did what he achieved with that shot. — Jack Bannister

Oh how can we, scarce mastering our passions, expect that youth should keep itself in check? — Friedrich Schiller

I condemn everyone and anyone who commits acts of terrorism. And Hamas has committed acts of terrorism. — Feisal Abdul Rauf

Like her father, Bess never forgot a hurt or a service. — Jeane Westin

To truly regenerate, to find what we are seeking, we must change from within. — Heidi DuPree

Thanks, Baba. You are always such a comfort."
She gave him a wry look. "I know. I've been considering becoming a counselor. Or possibly a nurse."
Day shook his head. "If I were you, Baba Yaga, I'd stick to your day job. — Deborah Blake

Cowboys don't go around breaking hearts. — Missy Lyons