These Days Quotes - Page 31

• People haven't got the interest in long long works these days. A lack of interest which I share.

  Norman MacCaig

  Long, People, Literature

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• I wonder if that's hurt me at the box office. Maybe audiences these days want to know exactly what to expect when they go into a movie, and my movies are hard to explain in just one way.

  Paul Mazursky

  Hurt, Office, Want

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• I'm pretty excited about the state of TV these days. There's great opportunity for really complicated relationships, in a way that I don't really see as much in movies anymore.

  Paula Malcomson

  Opportunity, Complicated Relationship, Way

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• I realize that I'm a mature woman and one of these days, incredible diet or not, I'll be a little old lady.

  Victoria Moran

  Littles, Realizing, Mature

  "Veg and the City: The Life Changing Effects of a Raw Food Diet" by Victoria Moran, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 18, 2010.

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• TV is a different animal these days. You can bring together really smart writing and directing, in-depth character development and really meaty political and emotional stories.

  Connie Nielsen

  Smart, Writing, Character

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• I really have paid my dues! When I get to stay in fancy hotel suites these days I remind myself of that.

  Rita Ora

  Fancy, Hotel, Dues

  "The suite life of Rita Ora" by Gordon Smart, www.thesun.co.uk. October 4, 2012.

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• These days kids get paid enough that they probably don't need to work too much. The problem is when the person is old enough that they need to work to make a living, and the only thing that they know how to do is what they are already washed up in.

  Susan Olsen

  Kids, Needs, Too Much

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• Lust, Pride, Sloth, and Gluttony, or, as we call them these days, "getting in touch with your sexuality," "raising your self-esteem," "relaxation therapy," and "being a recovered bulimic."

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Self Esteem, Pride, Lust

  P. J. O'Rourke (2007). “The CEO of the Sofa”, p.105, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• I love writing in longhand. Writing in longhand, I think, is a marvelous thing to do for a writer these days. If you have a notebook and a nice pen you can go off somewhere, you can write that's solar powered. You can drop it or get it wet and pretty much all of your work will continue to be there. If you suddenly decide to look up a word or check a reference you will not look up four hours later, blinking, finding yourself somehow in the middle of an Ebay auction you never had any plans to be part of.

  Neil Gaiman

  Notebook, Nice, Writing

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• People are doing what they can these days and looking for creative ways to sell music.

  Greg Laswell

  People, Creative, Way

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• Impulses are hard to come by these days.

  Jack Levine

  Impulse, Hard

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• For me, I feel like reality TV is anything but these days.

  Aubrey O'Day

  Reality, Tvs, Feels

  "Aubrey O’Day: I wanted to make a real reality show". Interview with Jarett Wieselman, pagesix.com. April 11, 2011.

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• I would rather not know about how one gets parts in movies these days.

  Christopher Plummer

  Knows

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• All that a university or final highest school. can do for us is still but what the first school began doing--teach us to read. We learn to read in various languages, in various sciences; we learn the alphabet and letters of all manner of books. But the place where we are to get knowledge, even theoretic knowledge, is the books themselves. It depends on what we read, after all manner of professors have done their best for us. The true university of these days is a collection of books.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Education, Book, School

  Thomas Carlyle (1852). “On Heroes, Hero-worship, and the Heroic in History: Six Lectures, Reported, with Emendations and Additions”, p.255

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• I have sometimes wondered also whether in people like me who come to the boil fast (soupe au lait, the French call this trait, like a milk soup that boils over) the tantrum is not a built-in safety valve against madness or illness. ... The fierce tension in me, when it is properly channeled, creates the good tension for work. But when it becomes unbalanced I am destructive. How to isolate that good tension is my problem these days. Or, put in another way, how to turn the heat down fast enough so the soup won't boil over!

  May Sarton

  Anger, People, Safety

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• Among all the complaints you hear these days about the crimes of the media, it seems to me the critics miss the big one. It is that especially TV, but also we of the print press, tend to reduce mess and complexity and ambiguity to a simple story line that doesn't reflect reality so much as it distorts it. ... What bothers me about the journalistic tendency to reduce unmanageable reality to self-contained, movielike little dramas is not just that we falsify when we do this. It is also that we really miss the good story.

  Meg Greenfield

  Drama, Simple, Reality

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• Every thing, even the so-called timesaving device and energy-efficient machine, comes these days with an elaborate set of instructions for its care and feeding. Buying a machine has become more and more like buying a pet. ... We are time-crunched. Not just by the number of things we have to do, but the number of things we have. In the late twentieth century, things have become our new dependents.

  Ellen Goodman

  Numbers, Pet, Energy

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• We hear a great deal of lamentation these days about writers having all taken themselves to the colleges and universities where they live decorously instead of going out and getting firsthand information about life. The fact is that anybody who has survived his childhood has enough information about life to last him the rest of his days. If you can't make something out of a little experience, you probably won't be able to make it out of a lot. The writer's business is to contemplate experience, not to be merged in it.

  Flannery O'Connor

  Taken, College, Childhood

  Flannery O'Connor (1969). “Mystery and Manners: Occasional Prose”, p.84, Macmillan

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• In these days people take up with each other and drop each other too easily. Pleasure is practiced like a sport, and the easy game of love leads to the dissolution of the feeling of love.

  Jeanne Moreau

  Sports, Games, People

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• I never talk about what I'm writing about currently, never. It's private work on your own, no need or obligation to talk about it. Writers are made into performers these days, including myself, but there are some instances in which I will not perform.

  Nadine Gordimer

  Writing, Needs, Made

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• As I do not live in an age when rustling black skirts billow about me, and I do not carry an ebony stick to strike the floor in sharp rebuke, as this is denied me, I rap out a sentence in my note book and feel better. If a grandmother wants to put her foot down, the only safe place to do it these days is in a note book.

  Florida Scott-Maxwell

  Book, Rap, Grandmother

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• Leading from the front: It's what built America. But these days, the federal government isn't at the front - it's cowering in the back corner of the room, ducking responsibility and hoping no one notices.

  Michael Bloomberg

  Responsibility, Government, America

  Michael Bloomberg's Opening Address at Ceasefire Bridging the Political Divide Conference, annenberg.usc.edu. June 20, 2007.

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• It is not the business of religion in these days to isolate herself from the world like John the Baptist. She must go down into the world like Jesus Christ.

  Hugh Reginald Haweis

  Jesus, Religion, Baptists

  Hugh Reginald Haweis (1875). “Speech in Season”, p.18

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• Technology is at the forefront of everything these days - communication, work. Its amazing and scary at the same time how robots have evolved, but I find it hard to believe that robots will completely rule the world. Not in my lifetime anyway.

  Graham McTavish

  Believe, Communication, Technology

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• Five golden years, Heart of Mine, have we walked the way of life together, and there is not an hour I would have changed; there is no moment when I would have you other than you have been. It is the fashion these days, I know, to say that love ends at the altar, but it is not so. You and I have found the old dream of the world divinely true. It is neither a poet's fancy nor a trick of the imagination, but a thing of fadeless and unending beauty.

  Myrtle Reed

  Dream, Fashion, Heart

  Myrtle Reed (1906). “Later Love Letters of a Musician”

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