Evgueni Mouravitch Quotes & Sayings

Good style, to me, is unseen style. — Sidney Lumet

The desire to reach hearts is wise — Maya Angelou

Here, my good man. Could you tell me whereabouts Horatio Street ... good heavens.
Thus called upon, he took courage; the sursum corda of an extravagant belch straightened him upright, and he answered,
Whfffck? Whether this was an approach to discussion he had devised himself, or a subtle adaptation of the Socratic method of questioning perfected in the local athenaeums which he attended until closing time, was not to be known; for the answer was,
Stand aside. — William Gaddis

I don't like to spend money when I'm traveling. I like to go places like Hawaii and not spend money. I splurge on time. — Jonny Weston

It is our nature to conform; it is a force which not many can successfully resist. What is its seat? The inborn requirement of self-approval. — Mark Twain

I got my job through the New York Times. [Written underneath:] So did Castro. — Robert Reisner

Ibn Taymiyyah was a worrying figure to the establishment. His return to the fundamentals of the Quran and sunnah and his denial of much of the rich spirituality and philosophy of Islam may have been reactionary, but it was also revolutionary. He outraged the conservative ulama, who clung to the textbook answers, and criticized the Mamluk government of Syria for practices which contravened Islamic law as he understood it. — Karen Armstrong

The best figurative poetry speaks not to the frivolous intellect, but (if anything does) straight to the heart; and does it better than plain prose. There seems then to be something which is better said with metaphor than without, which goes straighter to its mark by going crooked, and hits its aim exactly by flying off at tangents. — Austin Farrer