Ian Altman Quotes & Sayings

I have twenty countries in my memory and trail in my soul the colors of one hundred cities.
Arthur Cravan — Arthur Cravan

Romance is everything. — Gertrude Stein

The moment before he started was my favorite moment. — Jonathan Safran Foer

You're doing it to make the character as specific as possible, so that it's a specific individual that you're talking about, not that whole class of people. — Joel Coen

I didn't worry if a bit got no response, as long as I believed it had enough response to linger. — Steve Martin

Reach for the moon, because even if you don't get there, you will end up amongst the stars — R.L. Weeks

One of the first times that I went into a book store and saw a bunch of my books, my impulse was to put them all under my coat and run away so that no one else could see them, even though, of course, I wanted everyone to see them. — Stacey D'Erasmo

The beginning of war is similar to the beginning of peace - the world and the heart know nothing about it. — Albert Camus

IF YOU GO TO WORK ON YOUR PLAN, YOUR PLAN WILL GO TO WORK ON YOU. WHATEVER GOOD THINGS WE BUILD, END UP BUILDING US. - Jim Rohn — Jack Canfield

You just take any job you can that will allow your dream to come true. — Kathleen Rose Perkins

Despite Netanyahu's willingness to make concessions, Clinton and his advisers felt that he was not committed enough to the peace process. As a consequence, Clinton sent his senior election advisers to Israel to run Ehud Barak's campaign.13 The American contribution to Barak's election was so enormous that Israelis widely recognized that Barak owed his office to the Clinton administration. — Caroline B. Glick

What a man does with his wealth depends upon his idea of happiness. Those who draw prizes in life are apt to spend tastelessly, if not viciously; not knowing that it requires as much talent to spend as to make. — Edwin Percy Whipple

What is peculiar to our own age is the abandonment of the idea that history could be told truthfully. — George Orwell

[Garry Winogrand] was a bull of a man and the world his china shop. — Lee Friedlander

To shut one's door while others suffer, to care only for one's own, disclaiming responsibility for humanity, is to destroy all good impulse and to build up a deadly selfishness which will be a boomerang in its effect upon ourselves. Let our own children see the opportunity now theirs for Americanism in the best and traditional sense. There was never a better hour than this to be an American. May 1940, Christian Herald. — Pearl S. Buck