Pradotin Quotes & Sayings

I love reading books that you can't put down, and they just take you over for a night or a weekend. — Jami Attenberg

I'd like to be a more consistent starter. I'd like a smoother transition from crouching to running. I have to learn to relax during a race and how to breathe. — Donovan Bailey

Many people leave government disillusioned about its ability to achieve change and cynical about politicians. I left with rather opposite lessons. — Geoff Mulgan

I definitely think that typecasting is something that happens all the time. — Michael Mosley

Film is the only art form whose raw materials are so horrendously expensive that the artist cannot afford to buy them for himself. — Charlton Heston

The tender respect of Augustus for a free constitution which he had destroyed, can only be explained by an attentive consideration of the character of that subtle tyrant. A cool head, an unfeeling heart, and a cowardly disposition, prompted him, at the age of nineteen, to assume the mask of hypocrisy, which he never afterwards laid aside. With the same hand, and probably with the same temper, he signed the proscription of Cicero, and the pardon of Cinna. His virtues, and even his vices, were artificial; and according to the various dictates of his interest, he was at first the enemy, and at last the father, of the Roman world. — Edward Gibbon

[My poetry is] a way of coming to grips with reality ... a way of discovery and definition. It is a way of solving for the unknowns. — Robert Hayden

Home almost, at
least where words cut your lip & I spoke
you together & then back apart. — Joshua Marie Wilkinson