Political history is far too criminal and pathological to be a fit subject of study for the young. Children should acquire their heroes and villains from fiction. – W.H. Auden, A Certain World
In the tumult of men and events, solitude was my temptation now it is my friend. What other satisfaction can be sought once you have confronted History? – Charles de Gaulle
When it went on the air, the sales department hated it. It was the highest advertising pullout show in the history of NBC. At the early focus groups, people were saying, Who are these people? Why should we watch them? – Dick Wolf
Whatever I lack in size and strength and speed, I kind of make up for in being grittier. When it comes to something like basketball Im definitely not the best guy on the court, but I love elbowing and pushing people out or boxing them out. – Steven Yeun
Poetry is above all a concentration of the power of language, which is the power of our ultimate relationship to everything in the universe. – Adrienne Rich
