Pompeian Grapeseed Quotes & Sayings

This was a new recognition that perfection is admirable but a trifle inhuman, and that a stumbling kind of semi-success can be much more warming. Most of all, perhaps, these exultant yells for the Mets were also yells for ourselves, and came from a wry, half-understood recognition that there is more Met than Yankee in every one of us. I knew for whom that foghorn blew; it blew for me. — Roger Angell

Often, I think, thy don't believe in anything at all and they just want to prove to themselves that I don't really believe anything either. (The Vicar) — Helen Simonson

We have in my country (Russia) a quotation: It is impossible to make out of apology a fur coat. — Bernard Malamud

A nations path to greatness lies in its economic prowess and that militarism, empire, and aggression lead to a dead end. — Fareed Zakaria

When you're in a rehearsal room, it's like getting into a car and going on a long journey with everyone's stuff in the back. If you keep stopping the car and going, 'Are you sure we want to go?' and think, 'This is really daunting,' you will get frightened, so you just have to keep ploughing through it. — Kate Fleetwood

When I am writing, my problems become invisible and I am the same person I always was. All is well. I am as I should be. — Roger Ebert

The true poet has no choice of material. The material plainly chooses him, not he it. — J.D. Salinger

the dark foil in this American story — Natasha Trethewey

Old age is not a total misery. Experience helps. — Euripides