Tracenta Quotes & Sayings

While a large segment of the art world has obsessed over a tiny number of stars and their prices, an aesthetic shift has been occurring. It's not a movement - movements are more sure of themselves. It's a change of mood or expectation, a desire for art to be more than showy effects, big numbers, and gamesmanship. — Jerry Saltz

You can't fake comedy - it's not like a movie, where a director can just cast a pretty face. — Chris Rock

I usually start with an ending, then outline high points of things that happen, and kind of make up the rest as I go along. Occasionally, the characters surprise me, and I wonder how we got here. Other times, the characters are stubborn and won't do something I want them to in the story. — Julie Kagawa

Any time a system that justifies power can be conceived of running without that power, all those who profit from the manipulation of that power cry out that without them, all is lost. — Stefan Molyneux

Shahrazad Ali's The Blackman's Guide to Understanding the Blackwoman. — Bell Hooks

We forget that Socrates was famed for wisdom not because he was omniscient but because he realized at the age of seventy that he still knew nothing. — Robert Wilson Lynd

I never stop making sure that what I say is the best of what could be said about a particular thing. It's a constant evolution. If I planted a tree one way yesterday, and somebody tells me of a better way to plant a tree, I think, 'You know, they're right, that's better.' Then I change my way to accommodate the new way of planting trees. — Martha Stewart

The zoologist is delighted by the differences between animals, whereas the physiologist would like all animals to work in fundamentally the same way. — Alan Hodgkin