Microhistory Reviews Quotes & Sayings

Actors who say they can dive inside a character are either schizophrenic or lying. — Bruce Campbell

While working on The Last Supper, Leonardo da Vinci regularly took off from painting for several hours at a time and seemed to be daydreaming aimlessly. Urged by his patron, the prior of Santa Maria delle Grazie, to work more continuously, da Vinci is reported to have replied, immodestly but accurately, 'The greatest geniuses accomplish more when they work less. — Tony Schwartz

You have made my life into something so extraordinary, you can't even know. — Cynthia Hand

I'm not saying you need to take a break because you're crazy. I'm saying you need to take a break so you can be crazy, and people aren't going to judge you. You're going to do dumb stuff from here on out. But do it in your own time. Do it safely. You can afford to protect yourself and still have fun. — Miley Cyrus

Do not feed children on maudlin sentimentalism or dogmatic religion; give them nature. — Luther Burbank

The desire to be the object of public attention is weak, but the excessive dread of it is but a form of vanity and over-self-contemplativeness. — Sara Coleridge