Kenneth Oppel Quotes

We used to flock to watch gladiators, public torture and executions. In more recent times, our appetite for mortal violence has been sublimated in sports, photorealistic video games, film and literature.

Kenneth Oppel

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• To what extent has each one of us contributed to the rise in violence and hatred?

  

  Laura Esquivel
  • Violence
  • Hatred
  • Rise

• I don't watch a lot of television. Sports and news, that's it.

  

  Larry Hagman
  • Sports
  • Television
  • News

• Delaware is the only state east of the Rockies that is allowed under federal law to offer sports betting.

  

  Jack Markell
  • Law
  • Sports
  • Betting

• Non-violence is the article of faith.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Faith
  • Violence
  • Nonviolence

• Perhaps no other body of literature is as subject to political pressures from within the community as gay fiction.

  

  Edmund White
  • Political
  • Community
  • Body

• Although by 1851 tales of adventure had begun to seem antiquated, they had rendered a large service to the course of literature: they had removed the stigma, for the most part, from the word novel.

  

  Carl Clinton Van Doren
  • Service
  • Literature
  • Adventure

• As a former English major, I have always been fascinated by the connections between literature and history.

  

  Nathaniel Philbrick
  • History
  • Always
  • English

• The idea behind a dish - the delight and the surprise - makes a difference. Great literature surprises and delights, and provokes us. It isn't just 'Here's the facts - boy meets girl, boy loses girl, boy gets girl.' It's how you tell it.

  

  Nathan Myhrvold
  • Great
  • Girl
  • Boy

• Baseball was, is and always will be to me the best game in the world.

  

  Babe Ruth
  • World
  • Game
  • Best

• There are works of literature whose influence is strong but indirect because it is mediated through the whole of the culture rather than immediately through imitation. Wordsworth is the case that comes to mind.

  

  J. M. Coetzee
  • Mind
  • Strong
  • Culture

• I don't know which is more discouraging, literature or chickens.

  

  E. B. White
  • Know
  • Literature
  • More

• I grew up playing video games. And the cool thing about the EA Sports games is they took me through the whole motion-capture thing, where they put little sensors on my body so the video game really is me. It actually moves the way I move.

  

  Landon Donovan
  • Up
  • Game
  • Cool

• When you're a pro athlete, life is very narcissistic - everything relates back to you and how you play. When you are getting out of pro sports, you suddenly have to get a little more mindful of what's going on around you and how you affect the rest of the world.

  

  Abby Wambach
  • Life
  • World
  • Rest

• Life develops, changes, is in motion. The forms of literature are not.

  

  Karl Ove Knausgaard
  • Life
  • Literature
  • Changes

• In the city, a lot of crime happens, a lot of violence happens from time to time.

  

  Victor Cruz
  • Time
  • City
  • Violence

• The word 'geek' today does not mean what it used to mean. A geek isn't the skinny kid with a pocket protector and acne. There can be computer geeks, video game geeks, car geeks, military geeks, and sports geeks. Being a geek just means that you're passionate about something.

  

  Olivia Munn
  • Today
  • Game
  • Sports

• When I first stepped into literature twenty-five years ago, I wanted to work on behalf of the oppressed, the working masses, and it seemed to me, mistakenly, that I would not find them among the Jews.

  

  S. Ansky
  • Work
  • Literature
  • Jews

• Sometimes I wake up and think, 'I want to look like Sherlock Holmes today,' and other times I want to look like a witch from 'Macbeth.'

  

  Edie Campbell
  • Up
  • Think
  • Today

• You can't just buy the sports section of 'The New York Times.' You take the whole paper.

  

  Brian L. Roberts
  • Sports

• This is an extremely ambitious book. In addition to science and mathematics, Byers brings to bear insights from literature, philosophy, religion, history, anthropology, medicine, and psychology. The Blind Spot breaks new ground, and represents a major step forward in the philosophy of science. The book is also a page-turner, which is rare for this topic.

  

  Joseph Auslander
  • Book
  • Literature
  • Philosophy

• The first time at Louis Vuitton was Spring 2009 season, and I remember that the colors of the clothes were very dreamy.

  

  Liu Wen
  • Time
  • Remember
  • Spring

• Nothing's more important than who you love and who loves you back.

  

  Joanna Coles
  • Important

• We used to flock to watch gladiators, public torture and executions. In more recent times, our appetite for mortal violence has been sublimated in sports, photorealistic video games, film and literature.

  

  Kenneth Oppel
  • Sports
  • Violence
  • Literature