Tamara Kaplan Quotes & Sayings

We are not, most of us, capable of exalted emotion, save rarely. — Dorothy Day

And when Deirdre Bair went to interview Beckett for the biography the first thing he said was, 'So you've come to demonstrate that it was all, after all, autobiographical. — Tim Parks

The powerful have received their share of the world's attention even when their power has been shown as sheer evil. The victim's remain the faceless masses. Numbers. Mass graves. These monsters have fertilized our century with the mass graves of their victims and it is time that the powerless had names and faces
and voices. — Dan Simmons

The man who pursues happiness wisely will aim at the possession of a number of subsidiary interests in addition to those central ones upon which his life is built. — Bertrand Russell

Progress is the mother of problems. — Gilbert K. Chesterton

You can't make a life over. Society wouldn't let you if you would. — Mark Twain

No matter how powerful our political and religious leaders think they are, they are as dust before the immense and implacable forces of history and progress. I just hope that they don't make too much of a mess or take too many more people down with them. — Alan Moore

Most people do not pray; they only beg. — George Bernard Shaw

Magic (in the practical sense) was much fallen off. It had low connexions. — Susanna Clarke

I make movies. I have a passion. Puppies and daisies don't accomplish anything. That's not me at all. — Drew Barrymore

Is there any man that thinks in chains like the man who calls himself a free-thinker? Is there any man so credulous as the man who will not believe in the Bible? He swallows a ton of difficulties, and yet complains that we have swallowed an ounce of them. He has much more need of faith of a certain sort than we have, for skepticism has far harder problems than faith. — Charles Spurgeon

Bureaucracy will be the deity of the twentieth century. — Peter Esterhazy

Annie Lee Moss was a black woman who worked for the Army as a code clerk in the Pentagon. She was identified by an undercover agent of the FBI as a member of the Communist Party. Moss denied it, the Democrats sprang to her defense, and she has been treated ever since as an innocent victim of McCarthy. — M. Stanton Evans