Mark Kurlansky Quotes

I read pretty well in French and Spanish. I don't want to read a book written in French or Spanish in translation.

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• As a child, I loved fairy tales because the story, the what-comes-next, is paramount. As an adult, I'm fascinated by their logic and illogic.

  

  Gail Carson Levine
  • Child
  • Story
  • Logic

• There's nobody else that can double me - except for a doll.

  

  Verne Troyer
  • Me
  • Nobody
  • Double

• Any artist who aligns themselves with a politician is making a category error because what politicians do is not on a human scale, it is on a geopolitical scale.

  

  Zadie Smith
  • Artist
  • Because
  • Making

• I know where my body's at, know how it feels, you know.

  

  Calvin Johnson
  • You
  • Know
  • Body

• When you begin to write poems because you love language, because you love poetry. Something happens that makes you write poems. And the writing of poems is incredibly pleasurable and addictive.

  

  C. K. Williams
  • Poetry
  • Write
  • Poems

• I think that's one of the most unique and potentially powerful things about reddit - people come for the news, and stay for the community.

  

  Yishan Wong
  • People
  • Community
  • Powerful

• The eye of God ends up inside, so that, in the end, you take care of judgment and punishment yourself.

  

  Karl Ove Knausgaard
  • Up
  • God
  • Eye

• Whenever I did sitcoms, that always happened on your show. Once the show was on the air, it takes on a life of its own. It develops, and it becomes something else.

  

  Larry Wilmore
  • Life
  • Always
  • Air

• All true happiness, pure joy, sweet bounties, and unclouded pleasure are contained within the knowledge and love of God.

  

  Said Nursi
  • God
  • Love
  • True

• Your belief system tends to be a function of how you were raised. Being raised in the Midwest and in a relatively conservative household, my views were shaped by my upbringing, by my Christian faith.

  

  Aaron Schock
  • Faith
  • Christian
  • Belief

• I thought it was a really good contrast to have a really sweet, sincere, church girl sitting next to the church lady who seemed kind of, you know, over the top.

  

  Victoria Jackson
  • Good
  • Girl
  • Church

• I used to always buy clothes too big, but I should have showed off instead of covering up.

  

  Carey Lowell
  • Up
  • Always
  • Clothes

• I have many debates now with friends on the changes, and the continuing confusion over bringing up your children, instilling values, letting them make the right choices.

  

  Olivia Williams
  • Up
  • Children
  • Friends

• There are far too many people in university in Britain. If you want to make money, be a plumber.

  

  Felix Dennis
  • People
  • Money
  • Want

• The president of the United States is not a king. You know? Barack Obama was elected by the American people.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • People
  • American
  • Know

• An awful lot of Republicans, both in Washington and outside Washington, are resigned to leaving Obamacare in effect.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • Leaving
  • Washington
  • Outside

• They call me Fearless Felix.

  

  Felix Baumgartner
  • Me
  • Fearless
  • Call

• The real problem with the art world is not the money men scavenging in its wake - they've always been there - but the pirates who've taken over the ship. I am thinking, of course, of that awful art world species: the curator.

  

  Waldemar Januszczak
  • World
  • Men
  • Thinking

• What worries me is the professionalism of everything.

  

  Irvine Welsh
  • Me
  • Worries
  • Professionalism

• Today, the paparazzi are not just photographers: everyone has a cell phone with a camera. If they see an actor, they click pictures to show it to their friends or have it on their phones and, as an actor, I don't see anything wrong with it. Having said that, there is a limit that has been crossed, but there is nothing right or wrong.

  

  Ranbir Kapoor
  • Friends
  • Today
  • Cellphone

• Globalization - and I think we share this conviction - is that globalization needs to be shaped politically. It needs to be given a human face. But we cannot allow to fall back into pre-globalization times. So this conclusion of trade agreements that go beyond the scope of mere tariff agreements, customs agreements, are most important.

  

  Angela Merkel
  • Important
  • Fall

• I was in Boots buying contact lens solution, and my mobile went off. It was Jay-Z's partner at Roc Nation asking me what I was up to. He asked if I'd been to America, and I said, 'No.' Then he said, 'I'm putting you on a flight to New York tomorrow.'

  

  Rita Ora
  • Up
  • America
  • Partner

• I don't like to fly. What's it called when the plane shakes? Turbulence, takeoffs... I grab my chair, close my eyes, count to 30, breathe, and pray.

  

  Chanel Iman
  • Eyes
  • Fly
  • Breathe

• I read pretty well in French and Spanish. I don't want to read a book written in French or Spanish in translation.

  

  Mark Kurlansky
  • Book
  • Pretty
  • Spanish