Whartons Quotes & Sayings

This is a glorious biography ... The time is ripe for a new biography of Edith Wharton of this intimacy and on this scale ... Lee the biographer pursues her subject down every winding corridor, into every hidden passage and dark corner ... Her critical exploration of Edith Whartons work is dazzlingly assured ... A feat of exhaustive research, and finely tuned to Whartons creative achievement at the same time ... [Wharton] could scarcely have failed to be impressed by ... its artistic sympathy, its sonorous depths, and its soaring conception. — Mark Bostridge

Without going into too much detail, the end of my major action scene, after the climax of the scene, there was one little change that I suggested regarding the way things should turn out. It was in the detail of the tears of blood. — Chiaki Kuriyama

Some day, following the example of men like themselves, said Mr Fraser, the Chinese too would take to Free Trade: — Amitav Ghosh

At the lowest level of the investment banking hierarchy are the analysts. To find this young talent, the I-banks send their manicured young bankers out to the Whartons, Harvards and Princetons of the world to roll out the red carpet for the top undergraduates and begin the process of destroying whatever noble ideals the youngsters have left. — John Rolfe

had suddenly been called into existence several miles above the surface of an alien planet. — Douglas Adams

Paranoia is habitual. If you get slapped in the face every time you turn a corner, then you'll EXPECT to get slapped in the face every time you turn a corner. — Chloe J. Blankenship

I devotedly believe that the essence of my being - my spirit - is not truly a part of the universe, it is a part of Chaos. My spirit is a fragment of the Hidden God beyond the nutshell we call the cosmos; thus being trapped in a human body is only a prison in my eyes. — Vexior 218

If isolation tempers the strong, it is the stumbling-block of the uncertain. — Paul Cezanne

I do films that I like. I have done comedy, romance, everything, and I always like to do it differently from the previous ones. — Abhishek Bachchan

The line between courageous faith and foolish idealism is, almost by definition, one angstrom wide. — Eric Metaxas