Spriedumi Quotes & Sayings

The Columbian Orator. — Frederick Douglass

Light, whether it be material or moral, is the best reformer. — Charles Caleb Colton

Realism is for lazy-minded, semi-educated people whose atrophied imagination allows them to appreciate only the most limited and convention subject matter. Re-Fi is a repetitive genre written by unimaginative hacks who rely on mere mimesis. If they had any self-respect they'd be writing memoir, but they're too lazy to fact-check. Of course I never read Re-Fi. But the kids keep bringing home these garish realistic novels and talking about them, so I know that it's an incredibly narrow genre, completely centered on one species, full of worn-out cliches and predictable situations--the quest for the father, mother-bashing, obsessive male lust, dysfunctional suburban families, etc., etc. All it's good for is being made into mass-market movies. Given its old-fashioned means and limited subject matter, realism is quite incapable of describing the complexity of contemporary experience. — Ursula K. Le Guin

Dream-travelers, there is no path, paths are made by dreaming. — Antonio Machado

I can't say there were parts I was offered and turned down, but there were meetings for parts that I didn't go to, meetings I should have gone to, meetings I was advised against going to. I listened to that advice. — Cathy Moriarty

Too tall, standing up. In bed he was very much the right size. — Eileen Wilks

No matter who I couldn't save before, no matter if I'm stuck being a random mess of a girl, I'm still going to save something. — Sarah Porter

I think there's always room for more innovation and new things. — Warren Spector

He clicked through a dozen of them until he found a picture of a dark, curly haired woman, ample, smiling, appearing much younger than sixty, so familiar-looking that he was immediately attracted to her simply because he found familiarity, rare these days, so comforting. He opened her ad and realized he was staring at a picture of his wife, — Jami Attenberg