Elizabeth Janeway Quotes

it is through the ghost [writer] that the great gift of knowledge which the inarticulate have for the world can be made available.

Elizabeth Janeway

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• Although I grew up as a fan of the culture from the disco D.J. era as a young kid and hearing the beginnings of hip-hop, I'm hearing it all from another borough in Brooklyn.

  

  Fab Five Freddy
  • Up
  • Culture
  • Hip Hop

• I don't mind talking about 'what might have been,' but I am not one to doubt or regret most of my decisions.

  

  Larry Wilcox
  • Mind
  • Doubt
  • Regret

• There's guys like me who aren't going to the theater, so distributors are leaving money on the table.

  

  Dana Brunetti
  • Money
  • Leaving
  • Guys

• It is something where I think that people need to take a step back and realize how bad these things we are doing really are for our ears. But nobody really thinks about it. We're playing shows every night with music in our ears. That's just the industry.

  

  Taylor Dye
  • People
  • Music
  • Bad

• If you stop being scared, that's when entropy sets in, and you may as well go home.

  

  Tamsin Greig
  • May
  • Home
  • You

• The reason a poet is a poet is to write poems, not to advertise himself as a poet.

  

  Yehuda Amichai
  • Reason
  • Poet
  • Himself

• Adding 'just kidding' doesn't make it okay to insult the Principal.

  

  Nancy Cartwright
  • Insult
  • Okay
  • Principal

• I would definitely like to start a family because it's the most important thing in the world and what you should take care of, along with your friends and the people you love.

  

  Irina Shayk
  • World
  • Family
  • Love

• Our minds are like our stomaches; they are whetted by the change of their food, and variety supplies both with fresh appetite.

  

  Quintilian
  • Food
  • Change
  • Like

• It's not like I didn't do anything for 10 years and chose a new profession. I've been on the ice a lot. I'm not an outsider.

  

  Katarina Witt
  • Years
  • New
  • Ice

• I detest flying anywhere. Left to my own devices, I'd never leave my keyboard.

  

  Kage Baker
  • Flying
  • Own
  • Leave

• Vain hopes are like certain dreams of those who wake.

  

  Quintilian
  • Like
  • Dreams
  • Hopes

• My first book, 'Radical Acceptance', grew out of the suffering of feeling personally deficient and unworthy. Because most of us are so quick to turn against ourselves, the teachings and practices of radical acceptance continue as a strong current in 'True Refuge': nurturing a forgiving, understanding heart is a basic step on the path.

  

  Tara Brach
  • Heart
  • Book
  • True

• It is totally unacceptable that there are countries with no paediatric cardiac surgeries.

  

  Magdi Yacoub
  • Countries
  • Unacceptable

• Conflict is very much a state of mind. If you're not in that state of mind, it doesn't bother you.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Mind
  • You
  • Conflict

• Give news a little more time, and don't request that they also, in their news time, entertain. We're not entertainers. We're journalists. And we need more time to do our job well.

  

  Walter Cronkite
  • Time
  • Job
  • News

• When I think of the most beautiful women, they're not supermodels.

  

  Becki Newton
  • Women
  • Think
  • Beautiful

• I was the only Christian on the cast, but that was cool because we all respected each others talent and mostly they respected me a lot even though I was the only Christian.

  

  Victoria Jackson
  • Cool
  • Christian
  • Talent

• To the Puritan all things are impure, as somebody says.

  

  D. H. Lawrence

• I feel like I'm calmer, I'm kinder, I'm more patient the more I do my own meditation.

  

  Jim Yong Kim
  • Meditation

• 'Brave New World' dealt with a kind of proto-genetic engineering of the unborn, through really, as many dystopias do, it dealt with totalitarianism. The 1997 film 'Gattaca' updated 'Brave New World,' bringing us to a future where genetic testing determined your job, your wealth, your status in life.

  

  Ramez Naam
  • Life
  • World
  • Job

• It's funny, in some of the interviews I've seen that were done for the film, some people say things like, 'Oh, I was never a very big Jim Woodring fan. I've never thought his work was that great.'

  

  Jim Woodring
  • People
  • Work
  • Great

• What makes a book great, a so-called classic, it its quality of always being modern, of its author, though he be long dead, continuing to speak to each new generation.

  

  Lawrence Clark Powell
  • Great
  • Long
  • Book

• it is through the ghost [writer] that the great gift of knowledge which the inarticulate have for the world can be made available.

  

  Elizabeth Janeway
  • World
  • Great
  • Knowledge