Marina Warner Quotes

The vocabulary of pleasure depends on the imagery of pain.

Marina Warner

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• The society Shakespeare knew was heading for tremendous change, and he seems to have recognized that and written about it in a coded way. I understand those codes, I think.

  

  Vanessa Redgrave
  • Think
  • Society
  • Change

• The man who has his millions will want everything he can lay his hands on and then raise his voice against the poor devil who wants ten cents more a day.

  

  Samuel Gompers
  • Man
  • Day
  • Voice

• I've performed Schoenberg's 'Pierrot lunaire' many times.

  

  Barbara Sukowa
  • Times
  • Many
  • Performed

• I just use intuition - would I wear that? Would it feel okay? It's pretty simple, nothing too complicated.

  

  Yoon Ahn
  • Pretty
  • Simple
  • Nothing

• The junior senator from Wisconsin, by his reckless charges, has so preyed upon the fears and hatreds and prejudices of the American people that he has started a prairie fire which neither he nor anyone else may be able to control.

  

  J. William Fulbright
  • People
  • May
  • American

• At the Oscars, if you didn't vote for '12 Years a Slave,' you were a racist. You have to be very careful about what you say. I do have particular views and opinions that most of this town doesn't share, but it's not like I'm a fascist or a racist. There's nothing like that in my history.

  

  Gary Oldman
  • History
  • Vote
  • Opinions

• Not all lies are harmful. Sometimes we're willing participants in deception for the sake of social dignity, maybe to keep a secret that should be kept secret, secret. We say, 'Nice song.' 'Honey, you don't look fat in that, no.'

  

  Pamela Meyer
  • Song
  • Nice
  • Lies

• The familiar trope of the woman in peril doesn't really interest me.

  

  Karin Slaughter
  • Me
  • Woman
  • Interest

• In reality I have said very little things; I didn't point out many things to Geoffrey, I trusted very much not only his understanding of what I was doing, or what I wanted to do, in that moment.

  

  Victoria de los Angeles
  • Reality
  • Understanding
  • Moment

• The government is so out of control. It is so bloated and infested with fraud and deceit and corruption and abuse of power.

  

  Ted Nugent
  • Power
  • Control
  • Government

• I am formless and everywhere. I am in everything. I am in everything and beyond. I fill all space. All that you see, taken together, is Myself. I do not shake or move.

  

  Sai Baba
  • Together
  • Space
  • Myself

• I'm a weird dichotomy of nerd, sports fan, and musical theater, so I'd love to do a superhero musical on Broadway. But all the good superheroes are claimed.

  

  Taran Killam
  • Good
  • Love
  • Sports

• You don't want to influence the same system you are trying to forecast.

  

  Nate Silver
  • Trying
  • Same
  • Influence

• The Negroes have little invention, but strong powers of imitation, so that they readily acquire mechanic arts. They have a great talent for music, and all their external senses are remarkably acute.

  

  Samuel George Morton
  • Great
  • Music
  • Strong

• There's apparently soccer leagues that they've set up with young Indian girls.

  

  Parminder Nagra
  • Up
  • Young
  • Soccer

• My retail partners, they are my brand ambassadors. They're the ones who are selling the shoes to women.

  

  Edgardo Osorio
  • Women
  • Shoes
  • Brand

• Sometimes you want a Part Two in your life.

  

  Valerie Simpson
  • Life
  • Want
  • Sometimes

• I see that I am to wait for what will be exhibited by death.

  

  Walt Whitman
  • Death

• I got thrown out of music school for even listening to Fats Domino and Ray Charles. I was asked, 'What kind of music do you like to listen to?' and I said, 'Well, I do like Paul Hindemith and Igor Stravinsky but I also like Fats Domino and Ray Charles,' and they literally said, 'Either forget about that or leave.'

  

  Steve Winwood Blind Faith
  • Music
  • School
  • Listening

• Blues and soul and jazz music has so much pain, so much beauty of raw emotion and passion.

  

  Christina Aguilera
  • Music
  • Soul
  • Pain

• Probably the most satisfying soup in the world for people who are hungry, as well as for those who are tired or worried or cross or in debt or in a moderate amount of pain or in love or in robust health or in any kind of business huggermuggery, is minestrone.

  

  M. F. K. Fisher
  • People
  • World
  • Business

• I consider myself a blue-collar actor, just chugging away.

  

  Aaron Stanford
  • Myself
  • Actor
  • Blue

• Beware of flattery! 'tis a flowery weed, Which oft offends the very idol-vice, Whose shrine it would perfume.

  

  Elijah Fenton
  • Flattery
  • Perfume
  • Idol

• The vocabulary of pleasure depends on the imagery of pain.

  

  Marina Warner
  • Pain