Directeur Artistique Quotes & Sayings

For the night was not impartial. No, the night loved some more than others, served some more than others. — Eudora Welty

The heart is an arrow. — Leigh Bardugo

He's painted himself into a corner and a thousand lazy reporters and ever-so-sincere politicians had rendered the only word that he could use comically melodramatic. 'I think ... Johannes Cabal ... is evil. — Jonathan L. Howard

Sounds like a boring life."
"I hope it lasts forever," she said. — Don DeLillo

If you focus on sandbagging the beachhead, you can ignore the tsunami that's approaching. Try it any other way and you'll go crazy. — Jodi Picoult

I do think that all of us think in poems. I think of a poem as being deeper than headline news. You know how they talk about breaking news all the time, that -- if too much breaking news, trying to absorb all the breaking news, you start feeling really broken. And you need something that takes you to a place that's a little more timeless, that kind of gives you a place to stand to look out at all these things. Otherwise, you just feel assaulted by all of the tragedy in the world. — Naomi Shihab Nye

If you care about yourself and what you do, you get nervous about it. You just don't take the money and go home. — Rachel Ticotin

The opposite of addiction isn't sobriety. It's connection. — Johann Hari

The last four secretaries of defense have pointed out that defense spending creates jobs. So do pornography, prostitution, and narcotics. — Michael Parenti

All the men send you orchids because they're expensive and they know that you know they are. But I always kind of think they're cheap, don't you, just because they're expensive. Like telling someone how much you paid for something to show off. — Winifred Watson