Marquand Quotes & Sayings

Abortion politics have distracted all sides from what is really essential: a major aid campaign to improve midwifery, prenatal care and emergency obstetric services in poor countries. — Nicholas D. Kristof

In the mornings when they were in the city, they had breakfast on a card table in Jeffrey's study — John P. Marquand

I hope that I am as broadminded as others, and you have always seen a decanter of wine on the table. — John P. Marquand

It's my life. I only got one, and it's very short. You don't get long. — Richard Marquand

To limit the press is to insult a nation; to prohibit reading of certain books is to declare the inhabitants to be either fools or slaves: such a prohibition ought to fill them with disdain. — Claude Adrien Helvetius

Sometimes I think I might not have written 'The Age of Miracles' if I hadn't grown up in California, if I hadn't been exposed to its very particular blend of beauty and disaster, of danger and denial. — Karen Thompson Walker

People are not good to each other.
perhaps if they were
our deaths would not be so sad. — Charles Bukowski

His father watched him across the gulf of years and pathos which always must divide a father from his son. — John Phillips Marquand

I'm very interested in directing actors - many directors direct cameras. — Richard Marquand

I was a great admirer of George Lucas' work. — Richard Marquand

I'm an extremist. Either I'm being healthy and organic, or I want a big, juicy In-N-Out burger, I want it all now! It sure makes me happy. — Paula Patton

If you have one strong idea, you can't help repeating it and embroidering it. Sometimes I think that authors should write one novel and then be put in a gas chamber. — John P. Marquand

Truth indeed is sacred; but, as Pilate said, "What is truth?" Show us the undoubted infallible criterion of absolute truth, and we will hold it as a sacred inviolable thing. But in the absence of that infallible criterion, we have all an equal right to grope about in our search of it, and no body and no school nor clique must be allowed to set up a standard of orthodoxy which shall bar the freedom of scientific inquiry. — William Stanley Jevons

I am a tremendous 'Star Wars' fan; I know the story means an enormous love to me. I love the characters. — Richard Marquand

I do think it is a kind of illness in the sense that it sets you apart, it injects you with an endless, unslakable thirst to keep making the thing. The artist has to voluntarily use themselves endlessly. — Rebecca Miller

I know a fellow who's as broke as the Ten Commandments. — John Phillips Marquand

Ambition breaks the ties of blood, and forgets the obligations of gratitude. — Sallust

And in fact, Soviet films, which flooded the cinemas of all Communist countries in that cruelest of times, were saturated with incredible innocence and chastity. The greatest conflict tat could occur between two Russians was a lovers' misunderstanding: he thought she no longer loved him; she thought he no longer loved her. But in the final scene they would fall into each others' arms, tears of happiness trickling down their cheeks. — Milan Kundera

Some day you will know that there is a beauty of the soul that is more important than worldly beauty. Remember this when you see worldly beauty. — John P. Marquand

Richard Marquand, on Jedi, was very much an actor's director. — Peter Mayhew

Presidents, leaders, to be effective have to represent the whole to the parts and to the world outside. They may live in the centre but they must not be the centre. To reinforce the common sense they must be a constant teacher, ever travelling, ever talking, ever listening, the chief missionary of the common cause. — Charles Handy

There is a certain phase in the life of the aged when the warmth of the heart seems to increase in direct proportion with the years. — John Phillips Marquand

It is worthwhile for anyone to have behind him a few generations of honest, hard-working ancestry. — John Phillips Marquand

When I'm writing a novel, I'm dealing with a double life. I live in the present at the same time that I live in the past with my characters. It is this that makes a novelist so eccentric and unpleasant. — John Phillips Marquand