Laura van den Berg Florida is a most unusual place. It can feel at once stifling and like anything is possible there. – Laura van den Berg Feel Quotes Florida Quotes Stifling Quotes Unusual Quotes When I first left Florida for Boston, I was so eager to shed my Floridian identity, perhaps some of my earlier surreal gestures felt hollow and unconvincing because they were not rising from the particular brand of the uncanny I knew best. I’ve always found the Write-What-You-Know axiom small and stifling.
Allan Bloom Only Socrates knew, after a lifetime of unceasing labor, that he was ignorant. Now every high-school student knows that. How did it become so easy? – Allan Bloom
John Barrowman When I was younger I wanted to be an airline pilot, but that lasted for about 30 seconds. – John Barrowman
John Jay Hooker But there will be no justice, there will be no government of the people, by the people, and for the people, as long as the government and its officials permit bribery in any form. – John Jay Hooker
Ben Brantley It’s nowhere near as intense as what I imagine an actor experiences backstage, but I feel a fluttering nervousness before a curtain goes up on a play. I mean, any play, anywhere – on Broadway or the Bowery or in a church basement. – Ben Brantley
Ameen Rihani Autocracy is a government of the few from above; Bolshevism is a government of the few from below. – Ameen Rihani
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