Toomore Casablanca Quotes & Sayings

Nothing has a more sinister effect on art than the artist's desire to prove that he's good. The terrible temptation of idealism! You must achieve mastery over your idealism, over your virtue as well as over your vice, aesthetic mastery over everything that drives you to write in the first place - your outrage, your politics, your grief, your love! — Philip Roth

I doubt if you can have a truly wild party without liquor. — Carl Sandburg

How mankind defers from day to day the best it can do, and the most beautiful things it can enjoy, without thinking that every day may be the last one, and that lost time is lost eternity! — Max Muller

You will eat from where you work with all your strength — Sunday Adelaja

With science it's very important not to go down the wrong path, but the wrong path in science is a path you go down where everything you learn is already known. So you need to steer around the obvious. — Cynthia Kenyon

A lot of older parents worry about being older parents. I hear people say, 'I don't want to be too old to play baseball with my son.' They worry that their kids will be embarrassed by their parents' age. — Penn Jillette

I did have a feeling then that the culture of factuality was so dominating that storytelling had lost all its authority. — E.L. Doctorow

I have no sex appeal and it has screwed me up for life; my gynecologist examines me by telephone. — Joan Rivers

Philosophy consists in moderating each life so that many lives will fit together with as much liberty and justice as will keep them together: and not so much as will make them fly apart, when the harm will be the greater. — Tom Stoppard

If they gave him an enema, he could be buried in a matchbox. — Anonymous

The problem with nationalism is not the desire for self-determination itself, but the particular epistemological illusion that you can be at home, you can be understood, only among people like yourself. What is wrong with nationalism is not the desire to be a master in your own house, but the conviction that only people like yourself deserve to be in the house. — Michael Ignatieff

When I started in the business, there was a thing called adult fantasy, but nobody quite knew what it was, and most publishers didn't have an adult fantasy list. They had science fiction lists, which they stuck a little bit of fantasy into. — Terri Windling

I am broadcaster's biggest cheerleader because I genuinely believe in it. Where else can you get 20 million people a week watching 'NCIS' or 'American Idol?' Where else can you get 120 million watching the Super Bowl? — Leslie Moonves

he wore baggy sweatpants, because Mennonites thought it immoral for a man to show his legs. — Juliet Macur