Helen Schucman Famous Quotes & Sayings

With so many young playwrights, the true craft of writing for living voices is not what it used to be. They write for attention spans of 10 minutes between adverts. — Athol Fugard

A young man passes from our public schools to the universities, ignorant almost of the elements of every branch of useful knowledge. — Charles Babbage

Writing is not a profession. It's a calling. It's almost holy. — Jamaica Kincaid

but the first rule about a black woman's hair is you don't talk about a black woman's hair. And the second rule is you don't ever touch a black woman's hair without getting written permission first. And that includes after sex, marriage, or death for that matter. This courtesy is not reciprocated. — Ben Aaronovitch

I get to work with incredibly talented young filmmakers and students, and their attitudes and relationship with film is still so pure. That re-inspires me and reminds me why I got into it and what I love about film, and allows me a little reprieve from the business side of it. And it rekindles my love of film. — James Franco

You can't dream up confidence. Confidence is born of demonstrated ability. — Bill Parcells

I wanted something altogether wilder, the clumsier romance of strangeness. — Paul Theroux

Why do you care for them?
"I think it's because I feel loved. I feel like they understand me." - Andy Smithson — L.R.W. Lee

I have my superstitions, though. They could be termed quirks. I have to add up all numbers: there are some people I never telephone because their number adds up to an unlucky figure. Or I won't accept a hotel room for the same reason. I will not tolerate the favorite flower. I can't allow three cigarette butts in the same ashtray. Won't travel on a place with two nuns. Won't begin or end anything on a Friday. It's endless, the things I can't and won't. But I derive some curious comfort from obeying theses primitive concepts. — Truman Capote

I like being able to do anything. I think that's healthy, doing anything and everything, rather than just getting completely obsessed with one particular genre or particular kind of work. — Dave McKean

Your life doesn't belong to you, it belongs to the people that love you — Ellen Hopkins

To read in the service of any ideology is not to read at all. The mind's dialogue with itself is not primarily a social reality. All that the Western canon can bring one is the proper use of one's own solitude. — Harold Bloom

Our character isn't defined by the battles we win or lose, but by the battles we dare to fight. — Robert Beatty

You can manage what you do not understand; but you cannot lead it. — Myron Tribus

How do I live without the ones I love?
Time still turns the pages of the book its burned.
Place and time always on my mind.
I have so much to say but your so far away. — Avenged Sevenfold