Quotes May 28, 2025

If we look away long enough to worry about meaning, we’ll miss the moves and the game will vanish. … But if we pay attention, we will be in the game when the final card is thrown.
Elizabeth Pochoda,
journalist
1941-2025
 
 
 
 
I did mostly slice-of-life things. You make it sound real. If people stop believing you, you’re just telling jokes.
Norm is just me with better writing
George Wendt,
actor
1948-2025
 
 
 
 
Change your opinions, keep to your principles; change your leaves, keep intact your roots.
To put everything in balance is good, to put everything in harmony is better.
Victor Hugo,
writer, poet, playwright
 
 
 
 
A little bit of mercy makes the world less cold and more just.
Pope Francis
 
 
 
 
Instruction does much, but encouragement everything.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe,
writer, poet, humanist, scientist, philosopher
 
 
 
 
People who work together will win, whether it be against complex football defenses, or the problems of modern society.
Vince Lombardi,
American football coach, executive
 
 
 
 
If you think you can do better, then do better.
Bob Fosse,
dancer, choreographer, actor, stage director, filmmaker
 
 
 
 
Creativity is a habit, and the best creativity is a result of good work habits.
Twyla Tharp,
dancer, choreographer
 
 
 
 
Nothing is more honest than a dream.
All art is autobiographical; the pearl is the oyster’s autobiography.
Federico Fellini,
filmmaker