Macenstein Quotes & Sayings

Every hour of every day, at every level in every organization, influential people succeed and non-influential people don't, — Graham Roberts

Some people say I have issues. I say those people need to expand their horizons because I don't have issues, I have the Library of Congress — Mira Grant

I enlarge the photo again. Nope, too blurry — Marie Lu

The situation is that of him who is helpless, cannot act, in the event cannot paint, since he is obliged to paint. The act is of him who, helpless, unable to act, acts, in the event paints, since he is obliged to paint. — Samuel Beckett

I don't think there's any other issue out there that young people are more passionate, and more ahead in, than global warming. — Jose Antonio Vargas

Afterwards, as he held me and stroked my hair, my body was singing with pleasure, I couldn't believe I had waited so long. I thought of how we had wasted a whole year we could have had together and I felt so sad I wanted to cry. — Somi Ekhasomhi

Writing has to be an obsession - it's only for those who say, 'I'm not going to do anything else.' — Lorrie Moore

From across the woods, as if by common accord, birds left their trees and darted upward. I joined them, flew amount them, they did not recognize me as something apart from them, and I was happy, so happy, because for the first time in years, and forevermore, I had not killed, and never would. — George Saunders

For love was a kind of folly, a losing game. The greatest of all Wastes of Time. But then, that depended on what you thought time was for. — Cassandra Golds

I don't know anything that mars a good literature so completely as too much truth. Facts contain a great deal of poetry, but you can't use too many of them without damaging your literature. — Mark Twain

You don't have to spend much time in Shanghai before you start to get all existential about the meaning of authenticity. Did you know that Shanghai is building nine satellite towns, each designed to mimic the architecture and culture of a different country? — Patricia Marx

First you must take your degree. Set that before you as your first aim. Then, little by little, you will see your way. I mean in every sense, your way in life and in thinking. — James Joyce

Official history is a matter of believing murderers on their own word. — Simone Weil