#to

A child's fear is a world whose dark corners are quite unknown to grownup people; it has its sky and its abysses, a sky without stars, abysses into which no light can ever penetrate. ↗

— Julien Green

#corners #dark #ever #fear #grownup

What matters here are the works - finally without them his life would be uninteresting. What matters, that is, are the astonishing things that he left behind. If we can get the life in relation to the works, then it can take off. ↗

— Stephen Greenblatt

#behind #finally #get #here #his

First of all, there was a volcano of words, an eruption of words that Shakespeare had never used before that had never been used in the English language before. It's astonishing. It pours out of him. ↗

— Stephen Greenblatt

#been #before #english #english language #eruption

My father who in this case was an obsessive life-long storyteller, and by a very peculiar trick of my father's. My father would tell a very, very long story, and the punch line would be in Yiddish. ↗

— Stephen Greenblatt

#father #life-long #line #long #long story

What I wanted to do was to get that sense of being in touch with this lost world while holding onto what draws readers and audiences there in the first place. ↗

— Stephen Greenblatt

#being #draws #first #get #holding

If you're asking your kids to exercise, then you better do it, too. Practice what you preach. ↗

— Bruce Jenner

#asking #better #exercise #kids #practice

The meat-and-potatoes work of world journalism is performed by the wire service reporters. ↗

— Bob Greene

#meat-and-potatoes #performed #reporters #service #wire

Why are people saying it's too soon? Like the people on that flight, we need to agree about what to do about terrorism. And I think we need to have that conversation now. ↗

— Paul Greengrass

#agree #conversation #flight #i #i think

I could see flames from the windows of my chambers. For the next three or four days we had major rioting here in Washington and I stayed at the court day and night. ↗

— Harold H. Greene

#could #court #day #days #flames

I got into television because I hated it so. I thought, there's some way of using this fabulous instrument to be of nurture to those who would watch and listen. ↗

— Jeff Greenfield

#fabulous #got #hated #i #instrument