Zobel Quotes & Sayings

Americans used to be 'citizens.' Now we are 'consumers. — Vicki Robin

Nor did I share the anxiety with which each one measured up his chances of success.
The subjects taught at the lycee did not inspire me in the least. I worked for working's sake. I endured them. — Joseph Zobel

Forms of expression that unnecessarily specify gender are widely regarded as sexist. In technical writing, sexist usage is easy to avoid. — Justin Zobel

Target is one of the best at really listening to the artist and understanding what they are about. — Christina Aguilera

I should add that it is open to debate whether what we call the writing of history these days is truly scientific. — Lion Feuchtwanger

Page8 / FOREWORD by Philip Hofer:
"His problem is space, not inspiration; time, not initiative. — Fernando Zobel

Whenever I send a book by parcel post and the clerk at the post office asks me, "Is there anything dangerous in the package?", I'm always tempted to answer: "Yes -- ideas. — Dave Zobel

Appreciate what they can give, forgive them for what they cannot. — Elizabeth Isaacs

Yet I had become very attached to George Roc. I liked him, not for the joy of playing with him, not for some talent that made him stand out from the rest, not even for his kindness: above all, I liked him because he was always sad and because the things he told me caused me a degree of pain.....George Roc was the first being that I'd met who saw and felt himself unhappy. — Joseph Zobel

Doing what's right isn't supposed to hurt someone you care about. — Susan Mallery

Morning, Mr. Nick." "My, don't you look dapper." He looked to find Lilly in the doorway. "And doesn't your mama look pretty as a daisy." "Not daisy. Daffodil." Levi hopped down the steps. "That's her favorite flower, but her dress is green, so I guess she's pretty as a toad." Nick chuckled. "Only you would think toads are pretty." "Toads — Lorna Seilstad

I love getting ready to do a scene, and thinking about it, and talking about it. But the rest of the time, I'm so nervous and obsessed. I'm just tearing my hair out in the trailer. The whole time I'm really tense. — Casey Affleck

So I'm not proposing anything radical. I just believe that anybody making over $250,000 a year should go back to the income tax rates we were paying under Bill Clinton. Back when our economy created nearly 23 million new jobs, the biggest budget surplus in history, and plenty of millionaires to boot ... At the same time, most people agree that we should not raise taxes on middle-class families or small businesses
not when so many folks are just trying to get by. — Barack Obama

We should try to hold on to the Christmas spirit, not just one day a year, but all 365. — Mary Martin

It's interesting that people who can perpetrate cons have talked themselves into believing that they're not doing anything bad. That they tell themselves that there is nothing wrong with what they're doing is the crazy thing about human behavior. — Craig Zobel

Once more and for the last time, the moon flashed above and broke into pieces, and then everything went black. — Mikhail Bulgakov

They [the church] wanted us to give food out to malnourished mothers and children, but they didn't want us to question why we were malnourished to begin with. They wanted us to grow vegetables on the tiny plots around our houses, but they didn't want us to question why we didn't have enough land to feed ourselves. [p. 16] — Elvia Alvarado

Keats writes better about poems than anybody I've ever read. The things that he says about what he wants his own poems to be are the ideals that I share. — Andrew Motion

I want people to talk more. I mean, I watch Game of Thrones and there's all sorts of crazy nudity in it ... and very little of which I can justify, except that it's in a titillating and somewhat exploitational manner, but I don't really feel like that's a subject that people are interested in because it's the same news story. — Craig Zobel

I was so enthused with literature -- not stuck on literature, but in love with letters -- that I was easily inclined to bring all the conversations round to works I had read or fictitious characters from my readings about whom I loved to talk — Joseph Zobel

After all, most writing is done away from the typewriter, away from the desk. I'd say it occurs in the quiet, silent moments, while you're walking or shaving or playing a game, or whatever, or even talking to someone you're not vitally interested in. — Henry Miller

Writing is a totally different brain than directing, at least for me. With writing, you're trying your best to foresee all the problems before they happen. It's more architectural in a weird way. — Craig Zobel

In that moment I was as jealous of her getting to leave Montana as I'd ever been of anything or anyone in my life. — Emily M. Danforth

They say when one door shuts, another one opens. But they haven't been living at my house. Most of the doors I open seem to have something scary crouched behind them, anyway. — Charlaine Harris

When I'm directing, I can look at something that I wrote and say, "This doesn't make sense." There's a lot more intuition and gut involved. — Craig Zobel

Subtle, funny and touching, with a striking downbeat authenticity. Director Craig Zobel is the real thing. — A.O. Scott

I think most people come toward things assuming everybody is going to be a good person. When you have an interaction where it doesn't go that way, it's very problematic and interesting and weird. — Craig Zobel

On evenings, I spent the entire study period reading....
From that time on, the world began to broaden around me, beyond any tangible limits.
The world, as portrayed in those works destined for young people, was divided in two: an ordinary, everyday world, brutal and unresponding to desires, and a spacious, logical world, about all kind, interesting and desirable.
Wasn't the very act of reading a pleasure more substantial than that of playing or eating, for instance, even when one was starved? — Joseph Zobel