Bookshelves Quote by George Plimpton

“Marriage is something we make from available materials. In this sense it’s improvised, it’s almost offhand. Maybe this is why we know so little…

— Don DeLillo

“I’ve never understood what people mean when they say they have to find themselves. We know who we are. The hard part is being…

— Mike McIntyre

I've never understood people who play up the artifice of music.

— Carrie Brownstein

My art, what do you want to say about it? Do you think you can explain the merits of a picture to those who…

— Edgar Degas

In a typical desperation for quick answers, easily understood, people had turned to primitive worship as the solution. With less than success. Not only…

— Richard Matheson

The idea that in the system, if you manage it in an optimum way, all of the constituent parts of the system also win,…

— John Mackey

I could go on and on about how the statements and concepts that used to depress me now bring me joy, but that is…

— Byron Katie

[May] understood people and she let them be whatever way they needed to be. She had faith in every single person she ever met,…

— Cynthia Rylant

To make yourself understood to people, one must first speak to their eyes

— Napoleon Bonaparte

There's just something about being a young, working class, working poor, person of color in New York City in the 80's that needs to…

— Sofia Quintero

“Because the fact of not being understood by other people had become my only real source of pride, I was never confronted by any…

— Yukio Mishima

“I’ve never understood people who grind through a book they don’t really like, determined to finish it for some unknown reason.”

— John Grisham