Littrow Prism Quotes & Sayings

There are flood and drought over the eyes and in the mouth, dead water and dead sand contending for the upper hand. The parched eviscerate soil gapes at the vanity of toil, laughs without mirth. This is the death of the earth. — T. S. Eliot

I cannot overstate the power of libraries in my life. — Elizabeth Gilbert

I know he (Albert Belle) hates me. If he needs that hate to succeed, it's fine by me. I always liked him. He was a good kid. He just had a hard time with the pressure. — Skip Bertman

The best way that we can begin to produce positive change is to make peace with what is in ourselves and others, and then work to move forward and make life even better. — Marshall Goldsmith

Beautiful people blossomed forth from out of the polyglot, people who really had a lot to them, only it had been smothered by all the eternal social games that had been set up. Suddenly they found each other. — Tom Wolfe

Many fiction writers have used novels to promote social change. Why couldn't I? No matter that I had no experience whatsoever writing fiction. I could learn. I decided on mysteries because I love the genre and could envisage a story featuring climate change researchers hounded by climate change doubters. — Charlene D'Avanzo

Yes, people of both genders pop up at events to hold forth on irrelevant things and conspiracy theories, but the out-and-out confrontational confidence of the totally ignorant is, in my experience, gendered. Men explain things to me, and other women, whether or not they know what they're talking about. — Rebecca Solnit

Discretion is a girl's best friend. Learn when to use it, and when to let it slip. — Jennifer Megan Varnadore

I have no directing ambition whatsoever. And as long as I meet filmmakers like Tom Hooper, Stephen Frears, and others who allow that collaboration, I can't see why I would ever want to direct. — Peter Morgan

You remind me of my first concert. The one I told you about on New Year's. You remind me of the feeling of wanting to make something. — Ava Dellaira

... And totaly ordinary speaking horses. — Lev Grossman

This idea of repetition and revision is central to my working process-this idea of stacking and layering and building up densities and recoveries. — Ellen Gallagher

I never miss a chance to have sex or appear on television. — Gore Vidal

A chocolate you did not want to eat does not count as chocolate. — Terry Pratchett