Any time you get two people in a room who disagree about anything, the time of day, there is a scene...
AARON SORKIN The Internet, in general, I find troubling. The anonymity has made us all meaner and dumber. This th...
AARON SORKIN I've got plenty of quirks. I go to an office early in the morning. Early in the morning is reall...
AARON SORKIN I've never written anything that I haven't wanted to write again. I want to, and still am, w...
AARON SORKIN I'm very physical. When I'm writing, I'm playing all the parts; I'm saying the lines...
AARON SORKIN Writing never comes easy. The difference between Page 2 and Page Nothing is the difference between l...
AARON SORKIN I am all for everyone having a voice; I just don't think everyone has earned the microphone. And...
AARON SORKIN It seems to me that more and more we've come to expect less and less from each other, and I thin...
AARON SORKIN Don't try to guess what it is people want and give it to them. Don't ask for a show of hands...
AARON SORKIN It's a combination of life being unpredictable, and you being super dumb.
AARON SORKIN Good writers borrow from other writers. Great writers steal from them outright.
AARON SORKIN It's populated by people who, by and large, have terrific communication skills. Every day is an ...
AARON SORKIN Heroes in drama are people who try hard to reach a virtuous ideal. And whether they succeed or fail ...
AARON SORKIN You know, one of the things I like about this world, or at least I like about the way we're pres...
AARON SORKIN Decisions are made by those who show up.
AARON SORKIN I have all of the Apple products. Everything I've ever written, I've written on a Mac. My fi...
AARON SORKIN Don't ever forget that a small group of thoughtful people can change the world, it's the onl...
AARON SORKIN There are some screw-ups headed your way. I wish I could tell you that there was a trick to avoiding...
AARON SORKIN I think socializing on the Internet is to socializing what reality TV is to reality.
AARON SORKIN I've always thought that there is a great female James Bond movie to be done. I'm not litera...
AARON SORKIN I send them a lot of 'West Wing' hats, and they send me a lot of White House T-shirts and that kind ...
AARON SORKIN If I were running a television network, I would do a terrible job. That said, it would have been nic...
AARON SORKIN I have to allow for the possibility that I'm not just writing the season finale, that I'm writing th...
AARON SORKIN A Few Good Men
AARON SORKIN The play was written before a lot of things that have informed how we feel about the military, but I...
AARON SORKIN The play was written before 9/11 and July 7 and Abu Ghraib and a lot of things that have informed ho...
AARON SORKIN I grew up in the theatre. It's where I got my start. Writing a television drama with theatrical dial...
AARON SORKIN The problem with getting actors of this caliber is that if the show doesn't work, Tommy and I can be...
AARON SORKIN I love writing but hate starting. The page is awfully white and it says, "You may have fooled some o...
AARON SORKIN More than any time in recent history, America's destiny is not of our own choosing. We did not seek ...
AARON SORKIN We're about to shoot an episode on Air Force One, for instance, and we're going to take libe...
AARON SORKIN There's a great tradition in storytelling that's thousands of years old, telling stories abo...
AARON SORKIN Certainly, last year we did an episode about the census and sampling versus a direct statistic. You ...
AARON SORKIN Can you say why America is the greatest country in the world?
It’s not the greatest country i...
AARON SORKIN I have a lot of respect for people who are great at ad-libbing and for writers and directors who are...
AARON SORKIN As long as you keep one foot in the real world while the other foot's in a fairy tale, that fair...
AARON SORKIN The rules are all in a sixty-four-page pamphlet by Aristotle called 'Poetics.' It was writte...
AARON SORKIN I am truly at my happiest not when I am writing an aria for an actor or making a grand political or ...
AARON SORKIN I had a lot of survival jobs. One was for the Witty Ditty singing-telegram company. I was in the red...
AARON SORKIN When I write something, I want the best director to direct it. And that's not going to be me. So...
AARON SORKIN I have a big problem with people who glamorize dumbness and demonize education and intellect. And I&...
AARON SORKIN With 'The Social Network,' I got into it at first because frankly I thought there was a cool...
AARON SORKIN Not all paintings are abstract; they're not all Jackson Pollock. There's value in a photogra...
AARON SORKIN First scenes are super-important to me. I'll spend months and months pacing and climbing the wal...
AARON SORKIN I do not diminish the incredible symbolic importance of a black man getting elected president. But m...
AARON SORKIN I consider plot a necessary intrusion on what I really want to do, which is write snappy dialogue.
AARON SORKIN I find television, and particularly live television, very romantic: the idea that there is this smal...
AARON SORKIN Trying to guess what the (mass) audience wants and then trying to satisfy that is usually a bad reci...
AARON SORKIN 'Molly's Game' was a true story about a remarkable young woman named Molly Bloom. She wa...
AARON SORKIN Believe me, for a 28-year-old writer, getting a check for $200,000 was a big deal indeed,
AARON SORKIN I can kind of put any piece of red meat out on the table -- census, proportional response, slavery r...
AARON SORKIN My way of getting the best from people on a set is to notice their work, to make every prop master, ...
AARON SORKIN While I was doing 'The Newsroom,' I always had the news on on different networks on differen...
AARON SORKIN There have been times - and not just on 'The Newsroom,' but on 'The West Wing,' '...
AARON SORKIN I love writing but hate starting. The page is awfully white, and it says, 'You may have fooled s...
AARON SORKIN I get nervous before openings or premieres or when someone's reading a new script, and I get ner...
AARON SORKIN I'm more comfortable writing traditional protagonists. But 'Steve Jobs' and 'The Soc...
AARON SORKIN I like how you call homosexuality an abomination."
"I don't say homosexuality's an abomination,...
AARON SORKIN I spend most of my days pacing around, muttering that I have no ideas, feeling like I'm walking ...
AARON SORKIN I do not speak through my characters; it's not a ventriloquist act.
AARON SORKIN I desperately need the love of complete strangers. That's one reason I overtip. I love when skyc...
AARON SORKIN Whether it's 'The West Wing' or anything else, my first thought is always, 'What'...
AARON SORKIN When I wrote 'The West Wing,' the juice behind it was that in popular culture, our leaders i...
AARON SORKIN When we were doing 'The West Wing,' the hardest thing about doing 'The West Wing' wa...
AARON SORKIN If the characters on 'The West Wing' were watching a TV show wherein a character like Trump ...
AARON SORKIN It's important to remember that, first and foremost, if not only, this is entertainment. 'Th...
AARON SORKIN I've loved every minute I've spent in television. And I've had much more failure, as tra...
AARON SORKIN Stupid people surround themselves with smart people. Smart people surround themselves with smart peo...
AARON SORKIN This is a time for serious people, Bob, and your fifteen minutes are up.
AARON SORKIN My parents took me to see plays, starting from when I was very little. Oftentimes, I was too young t...
AARON SORKIN I get the 'The New York Times' and 'Los Angeles Times' thrown at my door every morni...
AARON SORKIN Television is a visual medium. You have to create some kind of visual interest. And it's enterta...
AARON SORKIN Well, I must tell you I write the scripts very close to the bone. So I'm writing episode seven n...
AARON SORKIN The upside of web-based journalism is that everybody gets a chance. The downside is that everybody g...
AARON SORKIN I like writing idealistically, romantically and swashbucklingly.
AARON SORKIN I grew up in the theatre. It's where I got my start. Writing a television drama with theatrical ...
AARON SORKIN A news organization has a much different responsibility. I might not be telling you the whole story....
AARON SORKIN I'm not on Facebook, and I don't tweet, but I know plenty of people who love both.
AARON SORKIN I think I would have done very well as a writer in the Forties. I think the last time America was a ...
AARON SORKIN I'll get cast occasionally as sort of the jerk version of myself, and I have fun doing that. But...
AARON SORKIN The first thing I wrote was a one-act play that got accepted at a one-act play festival, and I was i...
AARON SORKIN When a movie is being rolled out, the studio publicists and all our individual publicists get togeth...
AARON SORKIN I'm crazy about 'Breaking Bad,' but I wouldn't know how to write an episode of it.
AARON SORKIN I can't remember my dreams more than a couple of seconds after I wake up. It's frustrating b...
AARON SORKIN I feel like the better version of myself is on paper... I'd rather have people know me on paper.
AARON SORKIN 'Steve Jobs' is my seventh movie. I believe, if you added them up, I don't think there i...
AARON SORKIN The rules of drama are very much separate from the properties of life. I think that's especially...
AARON SORKIN If I am writing a movie and I am stuck, I can call the studio and tell them it's delayed. You ca...
AARON SORKIN I don't have a great instrument. I don't have the kind of ungodly control over my voice and ...
AARON SORKIN But HBO is less interested in how many people are watching than in how much the people who are watch...
AARON SORKIN Our responsibility is to captivate you for however long we've asked for your attention. That sai...
AARON SORKIN When I create a TV show, it's so that I can write it. I'm not an empire builder; my writing ...
AARON SORKIN Everything can be going well, but if I'm not writing, I'm not happy. When I'm writing we...
AARON SORKIN All my heroes wore coats and ties to work. What happened to men wearing hats? Maybe I should bring b...
AARON SORKIN It's nice that HBO is in business with the audience and not with the advertisers. There's a ...
AARON SORKIN There really isn't a story that you can't tell inside of it. It's very much a clearingho...
AARON SORKIN And my friends, you ain't seen nothin' yet.
AARON SORKIN A song in a musical works best when a character has to sing - when words won't do the trick anym...
AARON SORKIN The properties of people and the properties of character have almost nothing to do with each other. ...
AARON SORKIN I was sitting on a bench having a bagel, but from where I was both jogging and scullng looks good to...
AARON SORKIN The SEC would have to give them a waiver.
IRA SORKIN Sometimes juries think the judge is part of the government.
IRA SORKIN As I understand the law, all the jury has to do is find is that somebody at Andersen engaged in ille...
IRA SORKIN The longer the jury is out the worse it is for the defense. If the government doesn't have the evide...
IRA SORKIN We're not yet at that point [for a dynamite charge]. They are still talking and not killing each oth...
IRA SORKIN I'm not sure this is a linchpin. He will have to point a finger at a much larger control group at An...
IRA SORKIN Judge Harmon can then give Duncan whatever she likes.
IRA SORKIN Hard paywalls will never work because, just like at a newsstand, the reader likes to browse the cove...
ANDREW ROSS SORKIN The euphoria around economic booms often obscures the possibility for a bust, which explains why lea...
ANDREW ROSS SORKIN Perhaps the biggest economic shift during Obama's presidency came from a piece of legislation th...
ANDREW ROSS SORKIN Debt, we've learned, is the match that lights the fire of every crisis. Every crisis has its own...
ANDREW ROSS SORKIN Corporate tax reform is nice in theory but tough in practice. It most likely requires lower tax rate...
ANDREW ROSS SORKIN If I have a spare second, I usually catch up on the many magazines I'm behind on or watch the la...
ANDREW ROSS SORKIN There is a long list of psychology research demonstrating that appearances matter more than most us ...
ANDREW ROSS SORKIN The moment a large investor doesn't believe a government will pay back its debt when it says it ...
ANDREW ROSS SORKIN In September 2008 - as Lehman Brothers filed for bankruptcy and AIG, the world's biggest insuran...
ANDREW ROSS SORKIN The blowback against a bailout of Lehman would have been fierce. It is often forgotten, but the prev...
ANDREW ROSS SORKIN I think, with Hank Paulson, the concept of a bailout was anathema to him from day one. He was a Repu...
ANDREW ROSS SORKIN In truth, in the fairy-tale version of bailing out Lehman, the next domino, A.I.G., would have falle...
ANDREW ROSS SORKIN What if the slowdown in merger activity isn't cyclical, but secular? What if corporations have l...
ANDREW ROSS SORKIN Here's the perversity of Wall Street's psychology: The more Wall Street is convinced that Wa...
ANDREW ROSS SORKIN TARP became so politicized that having money from it was almost like a scarlet letter. There were de...
ANDREW ROSS SORKIN There's a good argument to be made that companies that are private, where they're run by par...
ANDREW ROSS SORKIN No one suggested Lehman deserved to be saved. But the argument has been made that the crisis might h...
ANDREW ROSS SORKIN Some billionaires like cars, yachts and private jets. Others like newspapers.
ANDREW ROSS SORKIN The greatest economic power might in fact remain in the hands of the Federal Reserve. Economists cre...
ANDREW ROSS SORKIN I don't want to put words in Geithner's mouth, but I think he is generally against the revol...
ANDREW ROSS SORKIN In many ways, education is a lousy business. Teachers are not normal economic actors; almost all of ...
ANDREW ROSS SORKIN Several companies have explicit policies against cronyism, with good reason. Hiring a family member ...
ANDREW ROSS SORKIN Hank Paulson, obviously, had spent his career on Wall Street, had a deep knowledge of the Street, an...
ANDREW ROSS SORKIN Why do we have financial crises? Why do banks lose money? If history is any guide, it hasn't oft...
ANDREW ROSS SORKIN Tiptoeing on a tightrope past insider trading laws may be deft and clever, but it doesn't make i...
ANDREW ROSS SORKIN The genre of narrative business books that I love so much - the ones that have a you-are-there quali...
ANDREW ROSS SORKIN By now, it seems as if everyone has already read Thomas L. Friedman's 'The World Is Flat: A ...
ANDREW ROSS SORKIN Wall Street is littered with clever plans to use financial instruments to change behavior - carbon t...
ANDREW ROSS SORKIN In truth, Wall Street is in for a radical makeover. Fewer people, lower margins, lower risk, lower c...
ANDREW ROSS SORKIN I have always looked at the world through the prism of money to some degree. If you could follow the...
ANDREW ROSS SORKIN Unemployment in Florida peaked at 11.2 percent in 2009, higher than the national average, and the st...
ANDREW ROSS SORKIN Unfortunately, I think it's very difficult to separate policy from politics. In a perfect world,...
ANDREW ROSS SORKIN There's something called, 'resolution authority,' which gives the government the power t...
ANDREW ROSS SORKIN What keeps me up at night? Waking up to a scoop at another newspaper or on TV. I'm probably comp...
ANDREW ROSS SORKIN The Saft America plant, a giant 235,000-square-foot mass of concrete, is a modern marvel: its roof c...
ANDREW ROSS SORKIN I got my start in the 'New York Times' because I used to read Stuart Elliot, the advertising...
ANDREW ROSS SORKIN There are those on Wall Street and in the plutocracy who feel that Geithner is a hero who deftly ste...
ANDREW ROSS SORKIN While the financial crisis destroyed careers and reputations, and left many more bruised and battere...
ANDREW ROSS SORKIN Touch is more important than arm strength. You want to really allow the receiver to run underneath t...
AARON RODGERS Geniuses come in many shapes and colors, and they often run in packs. If you can find one, it may le...
AARON KOBLIN Kevin Systrom of Instagram used to work for us as a consultant in the early days of Mint. I knew him...
AARON PATZER Never do today what you can do tomorrow. Something may occur to make you regret your premature actio...
AARON BURR Five letters here just for everybody out there in Packer-land: R-E-L-A-X, Relax. We're going to ...
AARON RODGERS I grew up in the church. I was raised in the church.
QUINTON AARON Having a chance to be someone other than yourself and to act out stuff that makes people look at you...
QUINTON AARON I like to be someone else. I like to be someone other than myself. I grew up watching movies and bei...
QUINTON AARON Being a fan of the business for years and wanting to be an actor for years, I knew, if ever the oppo...
QUINTON AARON Growing up, I was not used to good things happening to me.
QUINTON AARON If I have to degrade myself or do something that I'm not willing to do as a Christian to get som...
QUINTON AARON I feel like if I live the Christian life, then the people should be able to see it in my everyday ac...
QUINTON AARON I do believe in sending positive messages. I am a Christian, so I do believe in a lot of positive me...
QUINTON AARON My workday begins around 11 A.M., with a cup of black coffee in each hand. If I had more hands, ther...
AARON LEVIE I'm hoping someday that some kid, black or white, will hit more home runs than myself. Whoever i...
HANK AARON I've had problems with my throat over the years, playing with loud bands for years, and I've...
AARON NEVILLE I think I watched a movie about it.
AARON EDWARDS He came prepared to play. He fulfilled the author's intention. It's his movie. He's the man in it.
AARON ECKHART I think people could come out of this movie thinking, although all of these are very serious subject...
AARON ECKHART Audiences like both savory and unsavory characters, and [even] unsavory elements can be attractive. ...
AARON ECKHART All these people are so firm on their positions. That's where the humor in the movie comes from, ......
AARON ECKHART For Nick, the game, basically, is convincing people. It's getting people to look at things your way....
AARON ECKHART Nick is a tobacco lobbyist who loves his job and doesn't apologize for it, which [as a role] is exci...
AARON ECKHART I think Jason's going to have a huge career,
AARON ECKHART Thank You for Smoking.
AARON ECKHART the highest regard you can receive. That photo can describe an entire life, just an honor, as well a...
AARON ECKHART I'm going to have to stick with the 300 hurdles. There's not a lot of people who can do it and do it...
AARON DOBSON The indoor season is definitely going to give me a good jump for outdoor because I'm starting my tra...
AARON DOBSON I thought about how disappointed I was. I would admit that after that race I was broken in half. It ...
AARON DOBSON Medical amnesty is a good thing. They should always be thinking how to make the code better.
AARON DOBSON They (Dublin Scioto) look pretty big. And, it should be a real battle.
AARON DOBSON With this being our first home game of the season, everybody was really pumped and ready to play.
AARON DOBSON I was just feeling it tonight.
AARON DOBSON It is criminal that the Democratic elected officials allowed this country to invade Iraq, and it is ...
AARON DIXON Maria pays such little attention to issues affecting the black community. She's coming in here with ...
AARON DIXON I do not look at myself as a spoiler.
AARON DIXON The people are tired and they want change.
AARON DIXON West Nile Virus is here to stay. It's not something to be afraid of, but something to be concerned w...
AARON DEVENCENZI We're trying to create a behavioral change.
AARON DEVENCENZI One little 5-gallon bucket can create enough mosquitoes for an entire city block.
AARON DEVENCENZI With abundant rain and warmer temperatures, mosquito populations could be large.
AARON DEVENCENZI Pallets are no longer allowed because they have too many chemicals in them.
AARON COSTIC Twenty degrees is perfect for us. When it gets into the high 20s and the sun is out, it starts to af...
AARON COSTIC It's one of the cultural events. They give out Olympic medals. There will be eight blocks of ice and...
AARON COSTIC Most pieces just depict the finished product. This piece shows the beginning stages, too, and the fo...
AARON COSTIC There were 100 ice sculptors there from all over the world. We were given 10,000 pounds of ice and t...
AARON COSTIC We have a tower built of ice, and we fill it with wood and light it on fire.
AARON COSTIC Don't ever let him near a microphone.
AARON COPLAND Listening to the Fifth Symphony of Ralph Vaughan Williams is like staring at a cow for forty-five mi...
AARON COPLAND When I speak of the gifted listener, I am thinking of the nonmusician primarily, of the listener who...
AARON COPLAND There is something about music that keeps its distance even at the moment that it engulfs us. It is ...
AARON COPLAND A melody is not merely something you can hum
AARON COPLAND To stop the flow of music would be like the stopping of time itself, incredible and inconceivable.
AARON COPELAND The whole problem can be stated quite simply by asking, 'Is there a meaning to music?' My answer w...
AARON COPELAND I'm able to use this spring training to really prepare for the season, where normally I'd have to co...
AARON COOK