#quest

A city is a place where there is no need to wait for next week to get the answer to a question, to taste the food of any country, to find new voices to listen to and familiar ones to listen to again. ↗

— Margaret Mead

#answer #any #city #country #familiar

The march of conquest through wild provinces, may be the march of Mind; but not the march of Love. ↗

— Herman Melville

#love #march #may #mind #provinces

Unquestionably, there is progress. The average American now pays out twice as much in taxes as he formerly got in wages. ↗

— H. L. Mencken

#average #average american #formerly #got #much

Whenever a husband and wife begin to discuss their marriage they are giving evidence at a coroner's inquest. ↗

— H. L. Mencken

#coroner #discuss #evidence #giving #husband

To die for an idea; it is unquestionably noble. But how much nobler it would be if men died for ideas that were true! ↗

— H. L. Mencken

#died #how #idea #ideas #men

That actually is one of my huge challenges right now because I write best at night, no question. I can focus. You know you're not getting any phone calls, I can shut everything down, and I'm just more creative at night. ↗

— Stephenie Meyer

#any #because #best #calls #challenges

The war on terrorism has made national security a legitimate concern, and a rising deficit, changes brought on by globalization and even the price of oil have thrown the nation's economic health into question. ↗

— Roger Mahony

#changes #concern #deficit #economic #even

Obsession is the single most wasteful human activity, because with an obsession you keep coming back and back and back to the same question and never get an answer. ↗

— Norman Mailer

#answer #back #because #coming #get

By the time I was at college, I became very alert to the question of racial discrimination, and I remember one of my first writing attempts had to do with a lynching. ↗

— Albert Maltz

#attempts #became #by the time #college #discrimination

The main question in drama, the way I was taught, is always, 'What does the protagonist want?' That's what drama is. It comes down to that. It's not about theme, it's not about ideas, it's not about setting, but what the protagonist wants. ↗

— David Mamet

#always #comes #does #down #drama