quotes about Diagonal

“The man with the best job in the country is the vice-president. All he has to do is get up every morning and say, 'How is the president?'”

“Intelligence is power; it is the flame behind the spark of intrigue. Find out all the facts and stamp out the fire. Demystify.”

“There's nothing more boring than unintelligent actors, because all they have to talk about is themselves and acting. There have to be other things.”

“Writing fantasy lets me imagine a great deal more than, say, writing about alligators, and lets me write about places more distant than Florida, but I can tell you things about Florida and alligators, let you make the connection all on your own.”

“There's a very specific thing you can do to get in magazines. I'm much happier to just show up and do the job. I haven't taken the active approach to making myself a star. I haven't been in a blockbuster.”

“Kundalini Yoga will dawn on you the secret of how to be Healthy, Happy and Holy.”

“The idea of authority, and therefore the respect for authority, is an anti-Semitic notion. It is in Catholicism, in Christianity, in the very teachings of Jesus that it finds at once its lay and its religious consecration.”

“What she was finding also was how one book led to another, doors kept opening wherever she turned and the days weren't long enough for the reading she wanted to do.”

Source : Alan Bennett (2008). “The Uncommon Reader”, p.10, Faber & Faber

“Painting is... a correspondence between what you are and what you see. It's a moment when something is holding together in such a way that it is a universe in itself... Within this is a test and also a judgment upon yourself, your capabilities, your promises, and the part that you play in the world. And nobody else can test that for you. Certainly not the Museum of Modern Art.”

“Much wants more and loses all.”