Irene Fornes Quotes & Sayings

You speak French and Italian?" Moe lounged back, crossing long legs. "Having been acquainted for years with that beautiful creature known as Latin, I try to savor its ornate, loquacious offspring. Yet the French accent eludes me." Karl smiled. Somehow this big guy with an easy, sliding smile and precise diction made you like him. Presence, that's it. "My wife can help you with that. Have dinner with us." Moe Berg — Gregory Benford

My first plays were amazingly bad, but I had a teacher who thought I had promise, and he kept working with me. I finally went to a summer workshop before my senior year with people like Sam Shepard and Maria Irene Fornes who encouraged me to write from my subconscious, and suddenly all this material about culture clash came out. — David Henry Hwang

Any man's greatness is a tribute to the nobility of all mankind, so when we celebrate the genius of [Leo] Tolstoy, we say, "Look! One of our boys made it! Look what we're capable of!" — Mel Brooks

When I'm not doing something that comes deeply from me, I get bored. When I get bored I get distracted and when I get distracted, I become depressed. It's a natural resistance, and it insures your integrity. — Maria Irene Fornes

And in the moments of rest, when we orphans faced each other, mud-cheeked, leaning on our forks, there's a camaraderie that builds without you knowing it. — Mark Lawrence

What books meant, the possibility they presented: you could protect them forever, store them up like engineers store water, endless resources of time and knowledge snared in ink, tied down to paper, layered on shelves ... Moments made physical, untouchable, perfect, like preserving a dead hornet in crystal, one drop of venom forever hanging from its stinger. — Robert Jackson Bennett

I have to live with my decisions, whether you like them or not. — Maria Irene Fornes

The difference between microeconomics and macroeconomics is a bit like the difference between biology and medicine. Knowing that certain genes increase the risk of cancer is relatively easy. Figuring out exactly which people will get sick, or how to cure them, is a lot more complicated. — Alex Berenson

If the great figures of this nation's history were alive today, they would all have to say that they committed a felony when they applied for a job at McDonald's. — Justin King

Whether the borders that divide us are picket fences or national boundaries, we are all neighbors in a global community. — Jimmy Carter

My time at Yahoo, from its founding to the present, has encompassed some of the most exciting and rewarding experiences of my life. — Jerry Yang

The important thing in life is not to triumph but to compete ... not victory but combat ... not to have vanquished but to have fought well ... not winning but taking part ... — Pierre De Coubertin

The Internet is changing what entertainment and sports is. It's not just a few people authoring an experience for others. It's really growing out of what everybody does. — Gabe Newell

We can only do what is possible for us to do. But still it is good to know what the impossible is. — Maria Irene Fornes

Don't be mad cuz I'm doing me better than you doing you. — Donald Glover