Joanna Scott Vladimir Nabokov on ‘Bleak House’ or Henry James on ‘The House of the Seven Gables’ prove that reading can be an exciting subject in itself, full of passionate encounters, contradictory judgments, striking discoveries, and unexpected reversals. – Joanna Scott Bleak Quotes Contradictory Quotes Discoveries Quotes Encounters Quotes Exciting Quotes Gables Quotes Henry Quotes House Quotes James Quotes Judgments Quotes Nabokov Quotes Passionate Quotes Prove Quotes Reading Quotes Reversals Quotes Striking Quotes Subject Quotes Unexpected Quotes Vladimir Quotes The best liars lie with their eyes rather than with their words. This might put writers at a disadvantage. Masks are wonderfully paradoxical in this way: while they may hide the physical reality, they can show us how a person wants to be seen.
Beau Willimon When you have both parties who will not find ways to compromise, who won’t meet in the middle, you have paralysis. It’s the perversion of idealism. – Beau Willimon
Douglas MacArthurVeterans Day Duty, Honor, Country. Those three hallowed words reverently dictate what you ought to be, what you can be, what you will be. – Douglas MacArthur
Larry the Cable Guy I’m so sick of gay this, gay that. I could care less. It ain’t affecting my life at all. – Larry the Cable Guy
Robert PowellSmile I have found that a smile and a stick will carry you through all right, and in ninety-nine cases out of a hundred it is the smile that does the trick. – Robert Powell
Ricky Jay I certainly was performing before my writing was published, because I was performing when I was very young. And the thing is I’m very comfortable on stage, so a large portion of my act did come from ad-libs. – Ricky Jay
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