Extra Point Attempts

Famous quotes containing the words extra, point and/or attempts:

“Celebrity is a mask that eats into the face. As soon as one is aware of being “somebody,” to be watched and listened to with extra interest, input ceases, and the performer goes blind and deaf in his overanimation. One can either see or be seen.”
—John Updike (b. 1932)

“Point me out the happy man and I will point you out either egotism, selfishness, evil—or else an absolute ignorance.”
—Graham Greene (1904–1991)

“Because the soul is progressive, it never quite repeats itself, but in every act attempts the production of a new and fairer whole.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)