Miss Sloane Quotes & Sayings

What's missing in the musical theater is producers willing to nurture new work, raise the money and put it on. — Harold Prince

Formerly, in solitude and in silence, he had been used to think clearly and sometimes even profoundly, seeing life outside the flattering optical delusion of everlasting hope, of conventional self-deceptions, of an ever-expected happiness. — Joseph Conrad

Emotions weren't like washing. There was no call to peg them out for all the world to view. — Beryl Bainbridge

Eve means "giver of life." I don't think this redemptive calling to be a life giver is only biological. The life of Christ in us enables women to be life givers, rather than life-takers, in every relationship, circumstance, and season of life. — Gloria Furman

Compared to a star, we are like mayflies, fleeting ephemeral creatures who live out their whole lives in the course of a single day. From the point of view of a mayfly, human beings are stolid, boring, almost entirely immovable, offering hardly a hint that they ever do anything. From the point of view of a star, a human being is a tiny flash, one of billions of brief lives flickering tenuously on the surface of a strangely cold, anomalously solid, exotically remote sphere of silicate and iron. — Carl Sagan

The Good News does not hinge on words like do or change but on the powerless, irrelevant, and frightening words like belief and faith. — Mark Galli

Authentic Christianity is a supernatural walk with a living, dynamic, communicating God. — Bill Hybels

You must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you. — Ray Bradbury

The NFL is my goal, not my dream. My dream is to have an impact on people. — Manti Te'o

The nursery rhyme ends when a spider comes along and frightens Miss Muffet straight off her tuffet. I have wondered about what kind of lesson this is for a young girl. If you're eating your curds and whey and a spider comes along, I don't think there's anything wrong with picking up a newspaper, smashing it, and going back to your breakfast. — Sloane Crosley

Celebrity is hawking make-up, cars, everything; it's shifted. — Janice Dickinson

Doing what has never been done before is intellectually seductive, whether or not we deem it practical. — Neil DeGrasse Tyson

He preserved the union and freed the slaves. — Daniel H. Pink

I read somewhere that Mitt and I have a 'storybook marriage.' Well, in the storybooks I read, there were never long, long, rainy winter afternoons in a house with five boys screaming at once. And those storybooks never seemed to have chapters called MS or breast cancer. — Ann Romney

Men-kind shared this world for but a blink, then, sadly, they became enlightened, found science and religion. The new world of men left little room for magic or the magical creatures of old. Earth's first children were driven into the shadows by flame and cold iron, by man's insatiable need of conquest. — Brom

You miss the idea of him. There you go. Was that so hard? "That goes away, too," says your friend. Through the magic of the biological imperative, his brain has been reprogrammed. He has been forced to gloss over his own romantic carnage so that he might once again start down that road of procreation. He has nineteen layers of skin; you have three-fourths of a layer. They're all like this, the recovered. Sometimes you want to hop across the table, curl up in their laps, and beg to be made one of them. How does it work? Hypnosis? A chip in the neck? A radioactive spider with Xanax venom? — Sloane Crosley

I use an 8 x 10 view camera. All other cameras are just toys. — Jock Sturges