Famous Moss Hart Quotes & Sayings

I have frequently gained my first real insight into the character of parents by studying their children. — Arthur Conan Doyle

I see myself as a citizen of the planet. Even as a child, I always found it mindless to root for your own team. I was puzzled by the fact that people said their own team was better than other teams simply because it was theirs. — Wallace Shawn

I certainly wouldn't define myself as a northerner. I'm not even really sure what that means. I've lived in London for 50 years. I wasn't born here, but I have spent most of my life here. So I don't make much of it, to be honest. I'm just myself. — Ian McKellen

Being Black and poor is, I think, radically different from being anything else and poor. Poor, to most Blacks, is a state of mind. Those who accept it are poor; those who struggle are middle class. — Nikki Giovanni

Laziness in doing stupid things can be a great virtue
Chang - Lost Horizon (1933)
— James Hilton

I would recommend all men in choosing a profession to avoid any that may require an apology at every turn; either an apology or else a somewhat violent assertion of right. — Anthony Trollope

I'm just going to do my best and live under the assumption that if there are things in this life that we are supposed to do, if there are people in this world we are supposed to love, we'll find them. In time. The future is so incredibly unpredictable that trying to plan for it is like studying for a test you'll never take. I'm OK in this moment. — Taylor Jenkins Reid

I want to know why I read as a child with such a frantic appetite, why I sucked the words off the page with such an edge of desperation. — Francis Spufford

Everything was blamed on Castro. Mudslides in California. The fact that you can't buy a decent tomato anymore. Was there an exceptionally high pollen count in Massapequa, Long Island, one day? It was Castro, exporting sneezes. — Calvin Trillin

Big L is my favorite rapper of all time. He got killed quite a few years ago now but I think he's amazing and he kind of inspires me like his style inspires me. I don't think there's been anyone better since. I mean, Biggie Smalls is definitely on the top of the list but Big L is like the underdog, I like to give him the edge. — Andy Milonakis

A country inn is a percolator. News seeps, simmers, and bubbles. — Zelda Popkin