In 1952, I had gone to England on a literary pilgrimage, but what I also saw, even at that distance ...
CYNTHIA OZICK To say that such-and-such a circumstance is 'Kafkaesque' is to admit to the denigration of a...
CYNTHIA OZICK Novelists go about the strenuous business of marrying and burying their people, or else they send th...
CYNTHIA OZICK One reason writers write is out of revenge. Life hurts; certain ideas and experiences hurt; one want...
CYNTHIA OZICK Wondrous hole! Magical hole! Dazzlingly influential hole! Noble and effulgent hole! From this hole e...
CYNTHIA OZICK In saying what is obvious, never choose cunning. Yelling works better.
CYNTHIA OZICK I'm not afraid of facts, I welcome facts but a congeries of facts is not equivalent to an idea. This...
CYNTHIA OZICK After a certain number of years our faces become our biographies. We get to be responsible for our f...
CYNTHIA OZICK The usefulness of madmen is famous: they demonstrate society's logic flagrantly carried out down to ...
CYNTHIA OZICK In saying what is obvious, never choose cunning. Yelling works better.
CYNTHIA OZICK An essay is a thing of the imagination. If there is information in an essay, it is by-the-by, and if...
CYNTHIA OZICK To be a Jew is an act of the strenuous mind as it stands before the fakeries and lying seductions of...
CYNTHIA OZICK After a certain number of years, our faces become our biographies.
CYNTHIA OZICK Early in the 1990s, I flew alone in a dandelion-yellow, single-engine, 180-horsepower Piper Cherokee...
CYNTHIA OZICK An article can be timely, topical, engaged in the issues and personalities of the moment; it is like...
CYNTHIA OZICK I think about fanaticism - oblivion awaits, especially for minor writers, so you have to be a fanati...
CYNTHIA OZICK I think a fictional invention grows according to its own development, not the author's. Characte...
CYNTHIA OZICK My first encounter with James was when I was seventeen. My brother brought home from the public libr...
CYNTHIA OZICK To imagine the unimaginable is the highest use of the imagination.
CYNTHIA OZICK Nothing is so awesomely unfamiliar as the familiar that discloses itself at the end of a journey.
CYNTHIA OZICK I'm not afraid of facts, I welcome facts but a congeries of facts is not equivalent to an idea. This...
CYNTHIA OZICK Heir to the Glimmering World
CYNTHIA OZICK There was a period... when I used to say, with as much ferocity as I could muster, 'I hate Henry...
CYNTHIA OZICK I'm a fiction writer, and I do write essays, but I am not a poet. And I absolutely reject the ph...
CYNTHIA OZICK No one can teach writing, but classes may stimulate the urge to write. If you are born a writer, you...
CYNTHIA OZICK I'm not afraid of facts, I welcome facts but a congeries of facts is not equivalent to an idea. This...
CYNTHIA OZICK I don't like to read contemporary fiction while writing - I need a sense of isolation, a kind of...
CYNTHIA OZICK If I've ever regretted anything, it was putting all my eggs in one basket, holing up and kneelin...
CYNTHIA OZICK Whoever utters 'Kafkaesque' has neither fathomed nor intuited nor felt the impress of Kafka&...
CYNTHIA OZICK The novelist's intuition for the sacred differs from the translator's interrogation of the s...
CYNTHIA OZICK I had the idea in my twenties that a writer could immediately become the late Henry James. Henry Jam...
CYNTHIA OZICK Hebrew in America has a bemusing past. The Puritans, out of scriptural piety, once dreamed of establ...
CYNTHIA OZICK If an essay has a 'motive,' it is linked more to happenstance and opportunity than to the dr...
CYNTHIA OZICK [The prolific generosity of Dylan's talent down the years has been a wonder to behold.] Industry... ...
CYNTHIA OZICK I find that writing comes from the three fingers. The thumb, the index and middle fingers. It flows ...
CYNTHIA OZICK When something does not insist on being noticed, when we aren't grabbed by the collar or struck on t...
CYNTHIA OZICK To imagine the unimaginable is the highest use of the imagination
CYNTHIA OZICK We carry it with us and it goes in and out.
CYNTHIA OZICK If the soul is the mind at its purest, best, clearest, busiest, profoundest, ... then Bellow's charg...
CYNTHIA OZICK Traveling is seeing; it is the implicit that we travel by.
CYNTHIA OZICK In saying what is obvious, never choose cunning, yelling works better
CYNTHIA OZICK Travelers are fantasists, conjurers, seers - and what they finally discover is that every round obje...
CYNTHIA OZICK The engineering is secondary to the vision.
CYNTHIA OZICK Who owns Anne Frank?
CYNTHIA OZICK I think at this moment, in the absence of Bellow, that Roth is the most courageous American writer. ...
CYNTHIA OZICK Nothing is so awesomely unfamiliar as the familiar that discloses itself at the end of a journey
CYNTHIA OZICK I don't agree with the sentiment 'write what you know.'... I think one should write what...
CYNTHIA OZICK Among contemporaries, I hugely admire Alice Munro, our Chekhov, Saul Bellow, Philip Roth, and John U...
CYNTHIA OZICK Profound subject matter can be encompassed in small space - for proof, look at any sonnet by Shakesp...
CYNTHIA OZICK What we remember from childhood we remember forever - permanent ghosts, stamped, inked, imprinted, e...
CYNTHIA OZICK Everything looks cute when it's small.
CYNTHIA ROWLEY Voter caging and voter ID laws exist to disfranchise voters.
CYNTHIA MCKINNEY While I don't often use the word, the technically precise term for my orientation is bisexual. I...
CYNTHIA NIXON The combat exclusion policy was adopted during the Clinton Administration in 1994 and says women can...
CYNTHIA DILL It now becomes clear why the Bush Administration has been vigorously opposing congressional hearings...
CYNTHIA MCKINNEY A good time to keep your mouth shut is when you're in deep water.
CYNTHIA HEIMEL When in doubt, make a fool of yourself. There is a microscopically thin line between being brilliant...
CYNTHIA HEIMEL When in doubt, make a fool of yourself. There is a microscopically thin line between being brilliant...
CYNTHIA HEIMEL We don't really know who killed Martin Luther King. We don't really know who killed Bobby Ke...
CYNTHIA MCKINNEY It was kind of like songwriter's boot camp. You had to produce. You had to produce fast. You had...
CYNTHIA WEIL There are lots of different strategies that an animal can use to survive. What a worm does is try to...
CYNTHIA KENYON If it weren't for women, men would still be wearing last week's socks.
CYNTHIA NELMS The secret to a happy marriage is to tell your spouse everything, but the essentials.
CYNTHIA NELMS Tucker: "But she gave me the perfect gift."
Clara: "What?"
Tucker: "You.
CYNTHIA HAND She couldn’t get any farther away inside from her skin. She couldn’t get away.
CYNTHIA VOIGT I sneaked out to his house a couple times in the middle of the night to watch over him while he slep...
CYNTHIA HAND Never judge someone by who he's in love with; judge him by his friends. People fall in love with the...
CYNTHIA HEIMEL Beware of men on airplanes. The minute a man reaches thirty thousand feet, he immediately becomes co...
CYNTHIA HEIMEL Beware of men on airplanes. The minute a man reaches thirty thousand feet, he immediately becomes co...
CYNTHIA HEIMEL Nobody really cares if you're miserable, so you might as well be happy.
CYNTHIA NELMS I know it does make people happy, but to me it is just like having a cup of tea.
CYNTHIA PAYNE All men are not slimy warthogs. Some men are silly giraffes, some woebegone puppies, some insecure f...
CYNTHIA HEIMEL Abortion is a hard thing for Hollywood to deal with because it is so controversial and you don't...
CYNTHIA NIXON We have gone through some difficult times like everyone else and perhaps our working together and re...
CYNTHIA WEIL Americans are gathering the courage to just say no. We are saying no to addictive consumer lifestyle...
CYNTHIA MCKINNEY By the time I started high school, I knew I wanted to be a writer. After graduating from Smith Colle...
CYNTHIA VOIGT If you look at the field of robotics today, you can say robots have been in the deepest oceans, they...
CYNTHIA BREAZEAL Motherhood is the only thing in my life that I've really known for sure is something I wanted to...
CYNTHIA NIXON When in doubt, make a fool of yourself. There is a microscopically thin line between being brilliant...
CYNTHIA HEIMEL I didn't figure things out, either, you know. So if you'e an idiot, I guess that makes two of us." CYNTHIA HAND One of my favourite pieces is 'Antony and Cleopatra' - I'd love to be in that. Or an alt...
CYNTHIA ERIVO Most child actors, once they hit 18, once they hit 21, that's it. Even teenage kids often don...
CYNTHIA NIXON Unlike me, a lot of child actors are very short, which is why they work. So when they're 15 they...
CYNTHIA NIXON The business today is completely different and it's very producer driven, so that a songwriter n...
CYNTHIA WEIL Carbohydrates, and especially refined ones like sugar, make you produce lots of extra insulin. I'...
CYNTHIA KENYON You and I have a connection that nothing, not on heaven or earth, or even hell, could ever break. If...
CYNTHIA HAND What I want to see is more mixed casts. We need it. People need to be brave - in the real world, eve...
CYNTHIA ERIVO There are days when I'm completely obsessed with Kate Bush, and there are days when I'm comp...
CYNTHIA ERIVO Barry and I were in the middle of building a house, and I was in the midst of having a nervous break...
CYNTHIA WEIL Your good friend has just taken a piece of cake out of the garbage and eaten it. You will probably n...
CYNTHIA NIXON I was one of those kids who was always seeking the truth, and I first looked for truth by reading no...
CYNTHIA KENYON What's amazing with 'The X Factor' is that it gives people a chance who wouldn't nor...
CYNTHIA ERIVO For a seed to achieve its greatest expression, it must come completely undone. The shell cracks, its...
CYNTHIA OCCELLI I don't define myself. I'm just a woman in love with another woman.
CYNTHIA NIXON I do tend to be an analyzer. I'm an old English major from way back, so I do have fun tearing ap...
CYNTHIA NIXON She looked at her hand: Just some hand, holding a cheap pen. Some girls’ hand. She had nothing to ...
CYNTHIA VOIGT The only element still surprising was how rapidly Sherman was moving: for whichever direction I look...
CYNTHIA BASS We are the yin and the yang of the creative process.
CYNTHIA WEIL I don't think it's different to be a black girl in England than it is to be a black girl fro...
CYNTHIA ERIVO The situation in the United States is becoming more dire for average ordinary Americans and the last...
CYNTHIA MCKINNEY It's a different format. Classes are open and inviting.
CYNTHIA ANDERSON Are they reducing the number of 'Nutcrackers' because people are either canceling subscriptions or n...
CYNTHIA ANDERSON We're here because we want the board of trustees and ballet management to respond to their audience,...
CYNTHIA ANDERSON I think it's Harris Ferris who made the difference. His vision is that what makes a successful balle...
CYNTHIA ANDERSON I can't be calm when I drive through sections of Atlanta that look more like Kinshasa, Democrati...
CYNTHIA MCKINNEY Women are not ladies. The term connotates females who are simultaneously put on a pedestal and patro...
CYNTHIA HEIMEL When in doubt, make a fool of yourself. There is a microscopically thin line between being brillian...
CYNTHIA HEIMEL I can't go on anymore bad dates. I would rather be home alone than out with some guy who sells socks...
CYNTHIA NIXON With the new regulations, forgetting is no excuse. You have to adhere to deadlines. If you miss a de...
CYNTHIA GREEN What are answering machines for if not to break up woth someone who bores you?
CYNTHIA HEIMEL You know what we can be like: See a guy and think he's cute one minute, the next minute our brains h...
CYNTHIA HEIMEL A woman needs a man like a fish needs a net.
CYNTHIA HEIMEL The message is, we don't care about being part of the Anglican Communion.
CYNTHIA BRUST The problem is that most male adolescents don't have discussions about reproductive health-care issu...
CYNTHIA ROSENGARD I tell families frankly that I don't see [chelation] as benign and it's really very scary to me,
CYNTHIA JOHNSON I'm an old English major from way back, so I do have fun tearing apart texts and trying to find ...
CYNTHIA NIXON We've been busy all afternoon since the snow started. Lots of people were buying milk, bread, drinks...
CYNTHIA COLE In fact, most told us that companies are very reluctant to allow frequent telecommuters to manage ot...
CYNTHIA MORGAN Seventy-two percent said they'd use their ex-supervisor as a reference in finding a new job,
CYNTHIA MORGAN I'm a restaurant person, so I want the variety (of bistro row).
CYNTHIA DAVIS Many people don't realize that we actually produce six different newspapers and the HCN (Houston C...
CYNTHIA CALVERT The opposite of corporate greed is personal generosity. Government policies that enable the former a...
CYNTHIA DILL [Like] most lads at the time, [John] was horrified by the idea of homosexuality.
CYNTHIA LENNON Sharing a triumph with someone you love is an incredible high.
CYNTHIA WEIL I tell families frankly that I don't see (chelation) as benign and it's really very scary to me,
CYNTHIA JOHNSON I became a fitness fiend when I was about 17 or 18.
CYNTHIA ERIVO Oh, yes. Rings, lots of rings. I'm like really into this ring thing with big chunky rings.
CYNTHIA ROWLEY We need to stop viewing them as a choice. The patients feel guilty; the providers tell them things l...
CYNTHIA BULIK This gives us a lot of insights we wouldn't be able to make using static images.
CYNTHIA MOSS We're asking the judge in this case to stop the promoter from promoting their particular scam. We al...
CYNTHIA MAGNUSON Never judge someone by who he's in love with; judge him by his friends. People fall in love with...
CYNTHIA HEIMEL Kids love robots. They're this fanciful, cool thing.
CYNTHIA BREAZEAL I don't have Steve. There is no having the Steve.
CYNTHIA NIXON There's good news and bad news. We're definitely nowhere near being out of the woods.
CYNTHIA OGDEN Just about everyone wants to strike out on their own sometime. But they won't do it for the money --...
CYNTHIA MORGAN My nature is to be linear, and when I'm not, I feel really proud of myself.
CYNTHIA WEIL I know, it's so unfair ! So if (you're a woman and) you match your partner's intake by splitting a p...
CYNTHIA SASS We've seen an increase in obesity in men and we've seen an increase in overweight in both boys and g...
CYNTHIA OGDEN I was particularly concerned about seeing the increase in children, because we know that children wh...
CYNTHIA OGDEN About 17 percent of children are overweight and about a third of adults are obese.
CYNTHIA OGDEN It's mixing everything. So, it's like, there's maybe like this linen burlap jacket car coat with a l...
CYNTHIA ROWLEY If men liked shopping, they'd call it research.
CYNTHIA NELMS Some friends of mine who are actors feel directing shuts them down and kills all their impulses, but...
CYNTHIA NIXON I may have two in the tub at a time. The little ones get in together. But the other ones take a show...
CYNTHIA LONG In a lot of Western science fiction, you need some form of conflict, whether it's aliens or robo...
CYNTHIA BREAZEAL Hey, you feel like driving today?" he asks. "I don't want to walk to the bus stop. It's too cold." CYNTHIA HAND Tucker," I say. "I'm so glad you're still here."
I throw myself into his arms. He hugs me tight...
CYNTHIA HAND Once you trigger the sexual harassment then it almost always goes to the authorities. Had it been a ...
CYNTHIA MCNALLY Tucker: Why would you tell me now if it's against the rules?
Clara: Because I love you.
CYNTHIA HAND Just living longer and being sick is the worst. But the idea that you could have fewer diseases, and...
CYNTHIA KENYON The idea of making access to safe abortions harder and more expensive and more difficult, having to ...
CYNTHIA NIXON You made a lot of mistakes, and you wrote a lot of crap. But it was all part of the learning process...
CYNTHIA WEIL Hey, Carrots," he says.
CYNTHIA HAND Tucker: "Today we ran into a mama grizzly with two cubs at the ridge off Colter Bay and Clara sang t...
CYNTHIA HAND Have you ever been to a place you're supposed to love, but all you can think about is home?
CYNTHIA HAND So I'm in love. That crazy, forget to eat, float around in a daze, talk on the phone all night and b...
CYNTHIA HAND He grins. Unbelievable how gorgeous he is. And that he's mine. He loves me and I love him and how ra...
CYNTHIA HAND Because I love you.'

There. I said it. I can't believe I actually said it. People cast a...
CYNTHIA HAND Sam: "I always thought you were the most beautiful of all the Nephilim."
Meg: "That's ironic be...
CYNTHIA HAND What do you see in a guy like Christian Prescott?" he asked me that night when he dropped me off fro...
CYNTHIA HAND So often we only do what we think is expected of us, when we are capable of so much more.
CYNTHIA HAND I was never conscious of any distractions other than hearing an incredible Goffin and King lyric and...
CYNTHIA WEIL I said people nowadays are doing some crazy stuff and that's why I teach you to not talk to stranger...
CYNTHIA WILLIAMS Both of us have a lot of experience in our fields, and our work styles are very complementary. I'm a...
CYNTHIA DEROSIER I think we'd be hard-pressed to find many people with the generosity of Curt Gowdy. He did whatever ...
CYNTHIA PRICE If you find out what their intentions are, you may be able to prevent them from causing a pregnancy.
CYNTHIA ROSENGARD I feel like we wrote a road map or a handbook to help them navigate this particularly challenging ti...
CYNTHIA GRAUBART Through our evolution, we're so specialized for social interaction. So, if you can really design...
CYNTHIA BREAZEAL We'd surf together, then go straight to the coffee shop and have our meetings. It's amazing how much...
CYNTHIA DEROSIER We all have fertile creative periods and times when we can't figure out how we ever did it.
CYNTHIA WEIL It is our policy that all detainees are treated humanely and to report any suspected detainee mistre...
CYNTHIA SMITH They would have not suspended the child without doing an investigation.
CYNTHIA MCNALLY The 9/11 Omission: Did the Commission Get it Wrong?
CYNTHIA MCKINNEY This event was really set up for the writing students at Pitt. The past winners are conducting stude...
CYNTHIA MILLER Here in the scripture is a woman who is downright no good, ... That's what people called her. She's ...
CYNTHIA PRATT Bishop Smith is trying to force his theology on to these six churches.
CYNTHIA BRUST In November 2000, the Republicans stole from America our most precious right of all: the right to fr...
CYNTHIA MCKINNEY Two years ago I found out about Tate Publishing. Actually, I called them about my children's stories...
CYNTHIA VELENO None of the tobacco prevention programs designed by tobacco companies have been effective at prevent...
CYNTHIA HALLETT The United States has far more to offer the world than our bombs and missiles and our military techn...
CYNTHIA MCKINNEY So you're still in love with my brother."

-Wendy Avery
CYNTHIA HAND How did you do that?”
I shrug. “I click my heels three times and say, ‘There’s no plac...
CYNTHIA HAND It's clear that the United States has more to give the world than military bases.
CYNTHIA MCKINNEY There's nothing more inspiring than the complexity and beauty of the human heart.
CYNTHIA HAND U.S. tech workers, ... are increasingly nervous about employers' use of temporary non-U.S. citizens ...
CYNTHIA MORGAN I felt that the world itself had changed and that it would never be steady under my feet again. I f...
CYNTHIA VOIGT It's never been today before.
CYNTHIA VOIGT Like I said in my election manifesto - why don't they legalise the whole thing and let people li...
CYNTHIA PAYNE In the early '90s, we discovered mutations that could double the normal life span of worms.
CYNTHIA KENYON Generally, older people in their fifties, sixties, and seventies are running most countries and are ...
CYNTHIA KENYON It's possible that we could change a human gene and double our life span. I don't know if th...
CYNTHIA KENYON One of the criticisms of 'work first' is that it's really good at getting people jobs, but not as su...
CYNTHIA HINCKLEY We want to maintain a customer-oriented focus to our programs. It reminds staff that we're in a serv...
CYNTHIA HINCKLEY If I spent all of my time worrying about how I was going to live up to their standards, I don't thin...
CYNTHIA HINCKLEY I am following two great directors.
CYNTHIA HINCKLEY It sounds like a very high squeak.
CYNTHIA PERRINE The girlfriend and boyfriend were arrested for corruption and defeating the ends of justice.
CYNTHIA KLEINHANS We found the bat, using its sonar 'beam,' looks ahead of where it flies, and that there is a relatio...
CYNTHIA MOSS Caffeine might make you feel energized.
CYNTHIA SASS Mr. Secretary, if the nursing home owners are arrested for negligent homicide, why shouldn't you als...
CYNTHIA MCKINNEY