Quotes to Explore

When I was about 15… I made my first attempt as a leading lady, and was, of course, a complete failure.

Author : Maude Adams

The greatest compliment that was ever paid me was when one asked me what I thought, and attended to my answer.

Life belongs to the living, and he who lives must be prepared for changes.

My best film composing experience was with Elia Kazan.

Author : Alex North

For every talent that poverty has stimulated it has blighted a hundred.

Art hurts. Art urges voyages – and it is easier to stay at home.

Vagueness is at times an indication of nearness to a perfect truth.

Author : Charles Ives

The Rubicons which women must cross, the sex barriers which they must breach, are ultimately those that exist in their own minds.

Author : Freda Adler

Rodgers and Hammerstein didn’t mean anything to me. I just wanted to have a hit, I just wanted to be like those people on the radio. It was all of a case of the present tense with no projecting into the future, particularly.

Author : Art Garfunkel

Mama exhorted her children at every opportunity to ‘jump at the sun.’ We might not land on the sun, but at least we would get off the ground.

Our soul is cast into a body, where it finds number, time, dimension. Thereupon it reasons, and calls this nature necessity, and can believe nothing else.

Author : Blaise Pascal

Man performs and engenders so much more than he can or should have to bear. That’s how he finds that he can bear anything.