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“The most immoral and disgraceful and dangerous thing that anybody can do in the arts is knowingly to feed back to the public its own ignorance and cheap tastes.”
Source : Edmund Wilson (1951). “Memoirs of Hecate County”
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“How did Biot arrive at the partial differential equation? [the heat conduction equation] . . . Perhaps Laplace gave Biot the equation and left him to sink or swim for a few years in trying to derive it. That would have been merely an instance of the way great mathematicians since the very beginnings of mathematical research have effortlessly maintained their superiority over ordinary mortals.”
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“Nothing that happens on the surface of the sea can alter the calm of its depths”
Source : Andrew Harvey (2010). “The Direct Path”, p.249, Random House
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“Back of the job-the dreamer Who's making the dream come true!”
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“Lilacs, False Blue, White, Purple, Colour of lilac, Your great puffs of flowers Are everywhere in this my New England ... Lilacs in dooryards Holding quiet conversation with an early moon; Lilacs watching a deserted house; ... Lilacs, wind-beaten, staggering under a lopsided shock of bloom, You are everywhere.”
Source : Amy Lowell, “Lilacs”
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“I find that a lot of my best character stuff and ideas come unwittingly from novels. In scripts, it's a lot about the outward signs of whatever's happening - you have the end result. Whereas in a novel you get a buildup of the whys and wherefores, and you're let into the backstory.”
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“Make each day your masterpiece. Life is now. Life is not later on.”
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“Even when I'm playing someone named 'Fat Amy.' I'm all about confidence and attitude.”
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“Amazing what we can self-rationalize when we really want something”
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“I think my parents - my parents were very hands-off, quite liberal in terms of their - they really - they did encourage me, but they never really pushed me into anything, really.”
