Air Quote by Armand Assante Download Open image “Literature is air, and I'm suffocating in mediocrity.” — Armand Assante ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.9 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Air Books Literature Mediocrity Suffocating
Literature is the ditch I'm going to die in. It's still the thing I care most about. — Thomas McGuane Copy Share Image
I could not live by literature if only to begin with, because of the slow maturing of my work and its special character. — Tillie Olsen Copy Share Image
Literature got me into this mess and literature is going to have to get me out of it. — Philip Roth Copy Share Image
Literature takes a habit of mind that has disappeared. It requires silence, some form of isolation, and sustained concentration in the presence of an… — Philip Roth Copy Share Image
“To write is to forget. Literature is the most agreeable way of ignoring life. Music soothes, the visual arts exhilarate, and the performing arts (such as acting and dance) entertain. Literature, however, retreats from life by turning it into a slumber. The other arts make no such retreat – some because they use visible and hence vital formulas, others because… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share
“For me, literature is a revolutionary force, it requires courage and risk-taking, it must have the ability to thrust you out of your comfort… — Margaret Mazzantini Copy Share Image
“Literature is a wound from which flows the indispensable divorce between words and things. All our blood can flow out of that hole.” — Carlos Fuentes Copy Share Image
You love what you do, you are cursed with it, and then you get known for being cursed with it — Armand Assante Copy Share Image
It's a blessing and a curse. But it's not always the best situation to be in. As a profession, I don't recommend acting at… — Armand Assante Copy Share Image
I've brought my daughters all over the world-they travel with me. I drag them out of school just to keep the relationship. When I'm… — Armand Assante Copy Share Image
The whole industry is so screwed up by economics. It's disgusting to me. — Armand Assante Copy Share Image
I've worked for 27 years nonstop in theater and films. That's a lot of work. — Armand Assante Copy Share Image
I live a very quiet life, although I'm very urban and a diehard New Yorker — Armand Assante Copy Share Image
I do not want to act unless I have a a great intimacy with the people I'm working with. — Armand Assante Copy Share Image
My dream as a youngster was to be like Olivier. To be a great stage actor. To be a great Shakespearean actor. To me… — Armand Assante Copy Share Image
The Italian gangster thing has become a form of the modern-day Western — Armand Assante Copy Share Image
I will be a tireless advocate for our District's defense priorities including Sheppard Air Force Base, Pantex, Bell Helicopter, universities conducting important research, and… — Ronny Jackson Copy Share Image
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The cooler days have brought a wistful mood upon him. The smell of coalsmoke in the air at night. Old times, dead years. For… — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share Image
It's easy to say, let's go in and get the bad guys. But you have a divided country of Sunnis and Shias. The United… — Tulsi Gabbard Copy Share Image
I'm a candle flame that sways in currents of air you can't see. You need to be the one who steadies me to burn. — Nadine Gordimer Copy Share Image
It is sometimes said that scientists are unromantic, that their passion to figure out robs the world of beauty and mystery. But is it… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
Just between you and me, shouldn’t the World Bank be encouraging MORE migration of the dirty industries to the LDCs [Less Developed Countries]?... I… — Lawrence Summers Copy Share Image
After a few mouthfuls of moon-flavored air, even the stubbornly drowsy can find themselves wide-eyed.. All the normal noises of life were gone, leaving… — N.D. Wilson Copy Share Image
There was a little nook on Air Force Two that contained the vice presidential seal, and I would sort of wedge myself in there… — Jill Biden Copy Share Image
Words are substance strange. Speak one and the air ripples into another's ears. Write one and the eye laps it up. But the sense… — Dan Beachy-Quick Copy Share Image
[A]s you partake of the world's bill of fare, that's darned good advice to follow. Do a lot of spitting out the hot air.… — Dr. Seuss Copy Share Image