quotes about Half Way

“Heimat. The word mean home in German, the place where one was born. But the term also conveys a subtler nuance, a certain tenderness. One's Heimat is not merely a matter of geography; it is where one's heart lies.”

Source : Jenna Blum, Maggie O'Farrell, Molly Gloss, Nicole Mones, Elizabeth Benedict (2010). “The Best Contemporary Women's Fiction: Six Novels”, p.466, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

“No doubt one may quote history to support any cause, as the devil quotes scripture; but modern history is not a very satisfactory side-arm in political polemics; it grows less and less so.”

“Wherever I am in the world, my perfect day begins with waking up and heading to the beach or the pool or somewhere I can be semi-comatose. I just wake up and go to the sun.”

“For me, the creative process for me always starts in a personal place. I step away from my iPod or any records or CDs.”

“I mean that the function of the police is to solve problems that have law-enforcement consequences in a way that is based on a genuine partnership with the neighborhood in both the venting of the problem and the discussion of the solution”

Source : "No Easy Answers: An Interview with James Q. Wilson". Interview with William D. Eggers and John O'Leary, reason.com. February 1, 1995.

“Obviously, television is a writer's medium, so you get a lot more power and authority. With a film, the discipline is having a beginning, middle and end, and having it work in a specific space of time.”

“People might like to think a war is done when a cease fire is signed, but for most people who lived through a war it goes on for decades.”

“We know the speaker has received adequate empathy when a. we sense a release of tension, or b. the flow of words comes to a halt.”

“Nothing is absolute, with the debatable exceptions of this statement and death.”

“Truth is such a subjective thing.”