quotes about Wisest Man

last updated: November 28, 2023

The wisest man I have ever known once said to me: 'Nine out of every ten people improve on acquaintance,' and I have found his words true.
-- Frank Arthur Swinnerton

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“Of course it's a lot easier for me if I think of myself as a character to say certain things; it gives me a kind of liberty to say things that I otherwise wouldn't. It's always my hope that it will come across as me and not me at the same time.”
“Every poem is an infant labored into birth and I am drenched with sweating effort, tired from the pain and hurt of being a man, in the poem I transform myself into a woman.”
“Any actor working a long time should know how a shot is set up, where to place themselves, how to handle the lines. I'm a member of the crew, like the best boy, the electrician. What I'm good at is making eyes at the camera.”
“Without the oceans there would be no life on Earth.”
“I love writing dialogue, and I think a lot of my writing is visual and very cinematic.”
“I definitely think cheerleaders have no fear.”
“What's the point in being an unpopular writer? It just doesn't make a lot of sense. For me it doesn't, anyway.”
“The vast majority of English folk cannot and will not consider a picture as a picture, apart from any story which it may be supposed to tell.”
“When we practice generating compassion, we can expect to experience our fear of pain. Compassion practice is daring. It involves learning to relax and allow ourselves to move gently toward what scares us. The trick to doing this is to stay with emotional distress without tightening into aversion, to let fear soften us rather than harden into resistance.”
“Women have gained access to the institutions, but not enough power to overhaul them.”