Apcar Ems Quotes & Sayings

Of course it's difficult to turn anything down when Mike Nichols calls you personally. — Andrea Martin

How can I impress strangers with the gem-like flame of my literary passion if it's a digital slate I'm carrying around, trying not to get it all thumbprinty? — James Wolcott

Contrary to the general picture of the decline of Asia and the rise of the West, the Chinese economy was buoyant in the eighteenth century, developing its own local variations and with trade links across Southeast Asia. Silk, porcelain and tea from China continued to be in great demand in Europe (and in the American colonies) even though in 1760 the Chinese confined all Western traders to the port city of Canton. Tribute-paying neighbours as near as Burma, Nepal and Vietnam (and as far away as Java) upheld Beijing's solipsistic view that the Chinese emperor, presiding over the central kingdom of the world, had the right to rule 'all under heaven. — Pankaj Mishra

TALK TO ALL THOSE YOU MEET. BEFRIEND THE FRIENDLESS. SPEAK KINDLY. — Peter O'Malley

It's great to jump into things you're not sure of and you haven't done and that are a little scary. That's what we have to do, as artists. — Angelina Jolie

My rule in making up examination questions is to ask questions which I can't myself answer. It astounds me to see how some of my students answer questions which would play the deuce with me. — Henry Adams

I'm blackening pages, but I don't know if it's writing. — Leonard Cohen