Power Alderman Quotes & Sayings

There was one difference I would come to realize, between white kids and Indians. Among white kids there are tattletales everywhere. Indians? An Indian wouldn't tattle to save his own mother. Indians, over the years, have learned the value of keeping their mouths shut. — Brady Udall

I had not then acquired the technique that I flatter myself now enables me to deal competently with the works of modern artist. If this were the place I could write a very neat little guide to enable the amateur of pictures to deal to the satisfaction of their painters with the most diverse manifestations of the creative instinct. There is the intense 'By God!' that acknowledges the power of the ruthless realist, the 'It's so awfully sincere' that covers your embarrassment when you are shown the coloured photograph of an alderman's widow, the low whistle that exhibits your admiration for the post-impressionist, the 'Terribly amusing' that expresses what you feel about the cubist, the 'Oh!' of one who is overcome, the 'Ah!' of him whose breath is taken away. — W. Somerset Maugham

Very few people, thank God, look like the pictures of them which are published in the papers and the weekly magazines ... — Ilka Chase

Horror movies started to wane around the onset of World War II, and after World War II, when all the troops came home, people weren't really interested in seeing horror movies, because they had the real horror right on their front doorsteps. — Kirk Hammett

One of them says, 'Why did they do it?'
And the other answers, 'Because they could.'
That is the only answer there ever is. — Naomi Alderman

Badness is only spoiled goodness. — C.S. Lewis

Locking can guarantee both visibility and atomicity; volatile variables can only guarantee visibility. — Brian Goetz

Infuse your life with action ... — Bradley Whitford

When people are confronted with something they've never seen before, they really don't know how to react. — Kirk Hammett

It doesn't matter that she shouldn't, that she never would. What matters is that she could, if she wanted. The power to hurt is a kind of wealth. — Naomi Alderman

I am constantly astonished by the people, otherwise intelligent, who think that anything so complex and delicate as a marriage can be left to take care of itself. One sees them fussing about all sorts of lesser concerns, apparently unaware that side by side with them often in the same bed a human creature is perishing from lack of affection, of emotional malnutrition. — Robertson Davies