Bluebook Parenthetical Quotes & Sayings

Compromise is part and parcel of making a movie. It's a question of the kinds of compromises that you have to make. — Todd Solondz

they sought, from their earliest days, to use their financial leverage over individual states to improve the legal and political position of the Jews living there. — Niall Ferguson

We become happier by advancing our understanding of life and by finding its endless beauty. — Debasish Mridha

It's not so difficult to acknowledge that we lack wisdom. When we pray and seek God's wisdom with a longing for a deeper fullness of the life of Christ, then we will always find something to pursue. — Esther Smith

God forgives somehow we have yet to learn the same. — Mary Chapin Carpenter

Even if I should never see a native converted, God may design by my patience and continuance in the Word to encourage future missionaries. — Henry Martyn

His instincts told him he should stay the hell away from her. That he was on a road paved to hell, but he couldn't stay away. He'd watched her every night for a month, played a silent game with her of pretending the other didn't exist, and it never worked. He wanted to know the secret behind her eyes. He wanted to know why she carried a gun at night, ordered a glass of Johnny Walker Blue she never drank, and why she carried so much pain inside. — Nina D'Angelo

The number who actually consented to the Constitution of the United States, at the first, was very small. Considered as the act of the whole people, the adoption of the Constitution was the merest farce and imposture, binding upon nobody. — Lysander Spooner

The prisoner's recurrent, sporadic dreams of escape were simply that - spurious vagaries dismissed almost as quickly as they blossomed in Schkirt's feverish mind. — Stanley Goldyn

The music alone wasn't enough. It was great, but when an artist had an amazing look - like the MC5, or the Stooges, or Alice Cooper - you really got sucked in. The wardrobe was so important. At a show, you were engrossed in the music, but you were also engrossed in everything from the haircuts to what they were wearing. — John Varvatos

Over the years, I have realized that there's more to a film's fate than just good acting and a solid script. It needs to be marketed well. It's the package that sells - the songs, action, actors, etc. — Randeep Hooda

A lot of people talk about writing. The secret is to write, not talk. — Jackie Collins

I wondered whether music might not be the unique example of what might have been - if the invention of language, the formation of words, the analysis of ideas had not intervened - the means of communication between souls. — Marcel Proust