Kotlowitz Alex Quotes & Sayings

I'm sure not afraid of success and I've learned not to be afraid of failure. The only thing I'm afraid of now is of being someone I don't like much. — Anna Quindlen

We'll be all right. Somehow, we will. Trust it is the truth. — Elizabeth Morgan

Merton. Gethsemani required a vow of silence, and at dinner if you wanted salt, you had to stare hard at the shaker until another brother noticed. One day, cutting down a tree, Jack couldn't contain himself. He held his head back and roared, "Timber." After that, his days at the monastery were numbered. Within a couple of years, he had married, and he and his young wife, Fran, who herself had just spent a year in a nunnery, opened a Catholic Worker farm in eastern Missouri for recovering alcoholics. — Alex Kotlowitz

To make the mind obey you is a spiritual discipline. — Sivananda

The only amaranthine flower on earth is virtue; the only lasting treasure, truth. — William Cowper

My favorite project is always the next one. — Michael Graves

As a singer I tried on all these hats, these voices, these clothes, and eventually out came me. — Carly Simon

I know that you can do the impossible. — Terry Fox

Freedom is like holding a small bird. If you squeeze it too hard, you will kill it. But if you don't hold it firmly enough, it will fly away. Indeed, freedom can be both fragile and elusive, and so-as the McCormick Tribune Freedom Museum so powerfully reminds us-it requires our eternal vigilance, our willingness, our ability, our conviction to stand up for that which we think is right. — Alex Kotlowitz

The foundations of a person are not in matter but in spirit. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

A Crime So Monstrous is a remarkably brave and unflinching piece of reportage and storytelling. Ben Skinner bears witness, sharing stories so unsettling, so neglected, so chilling they will leave you shaking with anger. This should be required reading for policy makers around the world - and, for that matter, anyone concerned about the human condition. — Alex Kotlowitz

The power of good film is being there in the moment. — Alex Kotlowitz

One person's disability is another person's culture." As — Jodi Picoult

Those were the only kind of days their marriage had - the early ones. — Stephenie Meyer