Florescu Foundation Quotes & Sayings

I met a doctor the other night who told me he had always wanted to be a writer. I nodded. People always tell me that ... Then I thought to myself, 'You know, I've never met a writer who wanted to be anything else. They might bitch about something they're writing or about their poverty, but they never say they want to quit ... and if they do abandon it they become crazy, drunk or suicidal.' Writing is elemental. — Natalie Goldberg

Nothin' from nothin' leaves nothin'. — Billy Preston

Pirate gold isn't a thing to be hoarded or utilized. It is something to squander and throw to the four winds, for the fun of seeing the golden specks fly. — Kate Chopin

the most trenchant commentary was — Edmund Morris

Working on The Daily Show, I co-produced all those field segments, and that's another huge thing.I probably did more than 100 field segments. — Ed Helms

A disk unbeknownst to the director can go to the producer in another city or in another office and that producer can edit behind the director's back much easier than in the old days. Since these dailies are now put on videotape, more kinds of people have access to dailies. — John Frankenheimer

I'm THAT complicated, mysterious, yet content with the "simple" things in life. Don't try to understand me; you won't figure me out. But you're free to like me the way I am. — Marwa Ayad

Maybe a person is just made up of a lot of people," I say. "Maybe we're accumulating these new selves all the time. — Jandy Nelson

I get to do physical comedy! When do women get to do physical comedy? Very rarely. — Michaela Watkins

The bigness of the world is redemption. Despair compresses you into a small space, and a depression is literally a hollow in the ground. To dig deeper into the self, to go underground, is sometimes necessary, but so is the other route of getting out of yourself, into the larger world, into the openness in which you need not clutch your story and your troubles so tightly to your chest. — Rebecca Solnit

Add a pair of wings to a pepper pod, you would make a dragonfly. — Chris Bradford