Descheneaux Quotes & Sayings

History is not a burden on the memory but an illumination of the soul. — John Emerich Edward Dalberg-Acton

I worked with Lukas Haas a long time ago, when he was younger, and he was wonderful. — Campbell Scott

To sleep is an act of faith. — Barbara Grizzuti Harrison

I see videomaking as an art - it's not a process for me. — Michelle Phan

One night I begged Robin, a scientist by training, to watch Arthur Miller's 'Death of a Salesman' with me on PBS. He lasted about one act, then turned to me in horror: 'This is how you spend your days? Thinking about things like this?' I was ashamed. I could have been learning about string theory or how flowers pollinate themselves.
I think his remark was the beginning of my crisis of faith. Like so many of my generation in graduate school, I had turned to literature as a kind of substitute for formal religion, which no longer fed my soul, or for therapy, which I could not afford ... I became interested in exploring the theory of nonfiction and in writing memoir, a genre that gives us access to that lost Middlemarch of reflection and social commentary. — Mary Rose O'Reilley

Graphic novels are not traditional literature, but that does not mean they are second-rate. Images are a way of writing. When you have the talent to be able to write and to draw, it seems a shame to choose one. I think it's better to do both. — Marjane Satrapi

I'm twelve years old. I run into a synagogue. I ask the rabbi the meaning of life. He tells me the meaning of life but he tells it to me in Hebrew. I don't understand Hebrew. Then he wants to charge me $600 for Hebrew lessons. — Woody Allen

Wherever my travels may lead, paradise is where I am. — Voltaire