J.V. Cunningham Quotes

My mind is vacant on names, but I know him as well as anything. When I need names they drop out of my head; when I don't need them they drop back.

When People magazine called me, I did the job on Ansel. I'm older than Ansel and he has to mind me.

I don't resent anything.

I don't know what love means.

What I wanted to do seemed simple. I wanted something alive and shocking enough that it could be a morning in somebody's life. The most ordinary morning. Imagine, trying to do that.

As writers we must, from our very opening sentence, speak with authority to our readers.

A writer should always feel like he's in over his head

People are more than you think they are. And they're less, as well. The trick lies in negotiating your way between the two.

What does it mean to regret when you have no choice? It's what you can bear. And there it is... It was death. I chose life.

A certain slightly cruel disregard for the feelings of living people is simply part of the package. I think a writer, if hes any good, is not an entirely benign entity in the world.

What a thrill, what a shock, to be alive on a morning in June, prosperous, almost scandalously privileged, with a simple errand to run.

Virginia Woolf's great novel, 'Mrs. Dalloway,' is the first great book I ever read. I read it almost by accident when I was in high school, when I was 15 years old.

We Floridians have always assumed an arrogant mastery over our natural environment. And we have always presumed ourselves capable of obliging the water that is all around us to behave itself.

The power is that which generated and maintains the universe... the life-force, the stuff of creation. It is the very substance of existence itself.

Wicca has been, up until the past decade or so, a closed religion, but no more.

The shortest path to exceeding expectations doesn't generally pass through meeting expectations.

There is still that singular perfection, and it's perfect in part because it seemed, at the time, so clearly to promise more.

Friendship is the most constant, the most enduring, the most basic part of love.

Through my grandmother's eyes, I can see more clearly the way things used to be, the way things ought to be, and most important of all, the way things really are.

You practice with wet balls all the time.

This is a passion story: my passion, his, ours — yours.

Anybody is influenced by where and how he lives.

I find the growing intervention by the football authorities in strictly footballing matters a rather worrying trend.

In countries around the world, waistlines are expanding so rapidly that health experts recently coined a term for the epidemic: globesity.

If people are worried about unfair advancement, they should look at the sons-in-law of the world running companies. They've truly slept their way to the top.

What do you do when you're no longer the hero of your own story?

I think writing is, by definition, an optimistic act.

I seem to produce a novel approximately once every three years.

There's just this for consolation: an hour here or there when our lives seem, against all odds and expectations, to burst open and give us everything we've ever imagined.

But, when it comes to global warming, the public- at-large really doesn't know whom to believe anymore. And NASA has contributed to that confusion.

A wiki works best where you're trying to answer a question that you can't easily pose, where there's not a natural structure that's known in advance to what you need to know.

I told the students that whatever they did in class was for the wastebasket.

This Humanist whom no beliefs constrained Grew so broad-minded he was scatter-brained.

Silly humans. Banging on a tub to make a bear dance when we would move the stars to pity.

Global collaboration is something that Wiki mastered in a small way and here we can master it in a big way.

Dead, we are revealed in our true dimensions, and they are surprisingly modest.

I don't think two people could have been happier than we have been.

You want to give him the book of his own life, the book that will locate him, parent him, arm him for the changes.

What she wants to say has to do not only with joy but with the penetrating, constant fear that is joy's other half.

Here is the world, and you live in it, and are grateful. You try to be grateful.

This is what you do. You make a future for yourself out of the raw material at hand.

Love is deep, a mystery - who wants to understand its every particular?

I became kind of a drop-out in science after I came back to America. I wanted to photograph.

I'm blessed and proud and privileged to have played two wonderful characters on television.

If you have to, take a break, go to your corner, get some sleep but don't ever give up. You will get there.

I just want to see a good movie. Fortunately, good movies come in all sorts of genres.

I look forward to every script that comes down the pike.

Making films is hard. Awesome, but hard.

You can always go back and reconstruct stuff in a documentary, but it's so much cooler when you're there as it happens.

I don't talk about success. I don't know what it is. Wait until I'm dead.