Lydia Davis Quotes
Ordering is difficult. It's like arranging pieces of music in a concert: What do you put first? What do you put after the intermission? I want the reader to be sort of surprised, to come to each story freshly.Lydia Davis
Quotes to Explore
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I'm so intrigued by women throughout history where the significance of what they were representing at that time is obscured by the fact a man saved them or they were prostitutes.
Zoe Saldana -
I don't know what's with me and the 'of God' shows. It's hard to tweet about, because I guess 'God' triggers some kind of filter.
Garrett Dillahunt -
If I must choose between healthy and tasty, I go for the second: having only one life to waste, it might as well be a pleasurable one.
Yotam Ottolenghi -
Thoughts without content are empty, intuitions without concepts are blind.
Immanuel Kant -
I don't like to practice; I like spontaneity. When I don't play guitar for a week and I pick it up again, I play better.
Ace Frehley Kiss -
They got word that the Japanese planes were coming back, so we sunk her ourselves so the Japanese wouldn't get it. We didn't want the Japanese to get it intact.
Barney Ross
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If we were truly in the studio making a record, it would have been more time consuming, and certainly I would have been more involved in the writing process.
Taylor Dayne -
I don't know if I have a brand. I just see myself as an athlete and a competitor, someone who just works really hard at trying to get better at golf. I guess I'm kind of the feel-good story who's seen every level of professional golf.
Zach Johnson The Fray -
Splendid architecture, the love of your life, an old friend... they can all go drifting by unseen if you're not careful.
Ian Mckellen -
I've always been working just to be a world champion and it's a dream come true.
Yohan Blake -
In the summer we graduated we flipped out completely, drinking beer, cruising in our cars and beating up each other. It was a crazy summer. That's when I started to be interested in girls.
Ed O'Neill -
I look up to Rihanna and Rita Ora. They obviously wear a lot of gold jewelry and have this urban feel to them.
Becky G
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I suppose that every one of us hopes secretly for immortality; to leave, I mean, a name behind him which will live forever in this world, whatever he may be doing, himself, in the next.
A. A. Milne -
You must enjoy the journey because whether or not you get there, you must have fun on the way.
Kalpana Chawla -
The United States Senate wasn't designed to be a majority-rule institution. It was designed to include and accommodate the rights of the minority in small states as well as large states.
Olympia Snowe -
I think I am less of a prankster and more of a jokester.
Taye Diggs -
Almost all of us growing up have played baseball on some level. It has an inside track with people. It has a unifying effect.
Vin Scully -
I'm not a person who embraces challenges. I run from challenges. I break world records running from challenges.
Larry David
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I hated the fact that I had to read 'Moby-Dick' as a senior in high school.
Nathaniel Philbrick -
Greatness has nothing to do with results or with success.
Georg Brandes -
When works of art are presented like rare butterflies on the walls, they're decontextualized. We admire their beauty, and I have nothing against that, per se. But there is more to art than that.
Hans Haacke -
I don't think when I'm doing music. Things just happen. I've even taken my clothes off while performing. But then I'm so shy that I can't even take my clothes off in the dressing room, even though it's just the other guys in the band in here with me. It's really weird.
Daron Malakian System Of A Down -
Ordering is difficult. It's like arranging pieces of music in a concert: What do you put first? What do you put after the intermission? I want the reader to be sort of surprised, to come to each story freshly.
Lydia Davis