“Sidney Lumet's chief preoccupation wasn't art. It was right and wrong in the American city, nearly always in New York.” ArtCitiesNew YorkChiefsPreoccupationAmerican Cities Author:Wesley Morris
“Sidney Poitier became a star in part by helping black and white Americans negotiate their new relationship in the post-Civil Rights era.” HelpingStarsBlackWhiteRightsCivil RightsErasPostsBlack And WhiteNew Relationship Author:Wesley Morris
“There comes a point in your moviegoing life where you look at the screen and then you look at the world and you ask, 'What is going on?' You want the movies to show you the chaos and mess and risk and failure that are normal for a lot of us. Generally, the movies hide all of that.” WorldWantLooksShowsAsksRiskNormalChaosScreensMessRisk And Failure Author:Wesley Morris
“The fish is not so much your quarry as your partner.” SeaRiversFishesPartnersBoatLakesFishingFly FishingGreat FishingQuarry Author:Arnold Gingrich
“I now believe that fishing is far more important than the fish.” BelieveImportantFishesFishing Author:Arnold Gingrich
“I’m not much of a fly tier. I can do it—my friend calls it 'ham and eggs tying'—and I tie some cool flies that I can’t buy in a fly shop, but other than that, I would no more sit down and tie a dozen hopper patterns than I would do something absolutely insane, like build a rod.” I CanCan DoSeaMy FriendsRiversDown AndPatternsFishesInsaneBoatTiesShopsLakesFishingEggsDozenI Can Do ItHam Author:Jack Ohman
“Terrorism really doesn't strike at physical structures as much as it strikes at ideas, and its main fear is ideas. And cartoonists are particularly effective at distilling ideas.” IdeasStructureTerrorismStrikesCartoonist Author:Jack Ohman
“Really, the only thing a psychiatrist can do that a good (fishing) guide can't is write prescriptions.” WritingCan DoGuidesFishingPsychiatristPrescriptions Author:John Gierach
“Cell phones have changed us from a nation of self-reliant pioneer types into a bunch of men standing alone in supermarkets saying, ‘Okay, I’m in the tampon aisle, but I don’t see it.'” MenSelfNationsChangedTypeStandingOkayPhonesBunchCellsCell PhonePioneersSupermarketsAisleStanding AloneSelf ReliantTampons Book:Fool's Paradise Source: Fool's Paradise
“If we carry purism to it's logical conclusion, to do it right {fishing} you'd have to live naked in a cave, hit your trout on the head with rocks, and eat them raw. But, so as not to violate another essential element of the fly-fishing tradition, the rocks would have to be quarried in England and cost $300 each.” IfsRocksCostEssentialsElementsTraditionEnglandNakedConclusionFishingLogicalCavesTroutFly FishingTrout Fishing Author:John Gierach