quotes about Tour Guides

“I'm foremost an actor. I feel embarrassed being compared to the guys who really work at it. I fake it, I make believe I know all about it, which is what you're supposed to do as an actor.”

“Art raises its head where creeds relax.”

“Intensity builds immensity”

“Marya Morevna! Don't you know anything? Girls must be very, very careful to care only for ribbons and magazines and wedding rings. They must sweep their hearts clean of anything but kisses and theater and dancing. They must never read Pushkin; they must never say clever things; they must never have sly eyes or wear their hair loose and wander around barefoot, or they will draw his attention!”

“Memory heaps dead leaves on corpse-like deeds, from under which they do but vaguely offend the sense.”

“Micing it from two different angles in front of the speaker sounds huge, and it's so simple.”

“To appear unambitious amongst the ambitious is to invite loathing or fear. To be in the game, but not playing with intent to win, is to be the enemy.”

Source : Josephine Hart (1991). “Damage: a novel”, Alfred A. Knopf

“You can never be comfortable with your success, you've got to be paranoid you're going to lose it.”

Source : "In Focus: Lou Gerstner". Interview with Richard Quest, edition.cnn.com. July 2, 2004.

“I'm for economic independence.”

“They who assert that a blind fatality produced the various effects we behold in this world talk very absurdly; for can anything be more unreasonable than to pretend that a blind fatality could be productive of intelligent beings.”