Chernow Grant Quotes & Sayings

There is something that's a great deal more important than parental approval: learning to do without it. That's what it means to become an adult."15 — Julie Lythcott-Haims

BP has finally acknowledged what the American people have been saying for weeks: It must take responsibility for its reckless conduct, clean up the Gulf and compensate the countless victims of the disaster it caused. — Peter Welch

In those simpler days, you could just take pictures of movie stars and show them the way they were, as normal human beings. And if I felt part of any movement at the time, it was just to do that - to be journalistic and photograph what is, rather than what is made up. — Elliott Erwitt

Holding together a kind of tension. When you see a painting that's really good that's what it's doing. — Brice Marden

When one is the type of writer who cares about the meaning of the historically specific setting, the history itself is not something that I would call backdrop. It's not window dressing for a timeless relationship about love and betrayal. For me, the setting and the specific history are active co-agents with me in trying to form the novel. — Rachel Kushner