Polonsky Prize Quotes & Sayings

I actually am always a music first person. — Duncan Sheik

Well, I'd like to think I am, and I'd also like to think that we're all having a lot more fun getting older than we pretend. It was interesting to me when I first started working on this book that I'd mentioned that I was writing a memoir about aging and everybody would moan and groan and carry on. — Anna Quindlen

Those who will not read are no better off than those who cannot read. — Jim Rohn

When the mischief is done the door is shut. — Juvenal

Enjoy breathing. Feel your breath. Watch your breath. Become your breath. — Tai Sheridan

I don't know any Beatles songs. My dad never listened to Elvis or Sting or Bowie. Any band name that's on a t-shirt, I probably won't know their music, like AC/DC or whatever. I don't know what that is. As a kid, I would sing along to artists like Tania Maria. — FKA Twigs

This man dresses like an unmade bed. — Henny Youngman

When a film is created, it is created in a language, which is not only about words, but also the way that very language encodes our perception of the world, our understanding of it. — Andrzej Wajda

I had no money. I just figured out hustles to get by, like maybe selling my clothes. I wanted to travel around and be broke and live in sketchy apartments. — Leo Fitzpatrick

Joyful morning, good morning, good day. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Where there is even a trace of etiquette, there is no religion of moksha [ultimate liberation] there, nor any other religion. Religion is to be found in naturalness (saahajeekta) — Dada Bhagwan