Elizabeth McCracken Quotes
I can't imagine not joking even at the worst of times. And for me, it's sort of automatic.Elizabeth McCracken
Quotes to Explore
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In the world of words, the imagination is one of the forces of nature.
Wallace Stevens -
The only difference between the Republican and Democratic parties is the velocities with which their knees hit the floor when corporations knock on their door. That's the only difference.
Ralph Nader -
People are obsessed with my haircut; everyone wants to do something with my hair before the ceremony. Very senior figures tell me their hairstylist wants to do my hair for free. It's surprising. People from television are interested almost exclusively in aspects of my hair and my hairdresser.
Ada Yonath -
The use of travelling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are.
Samuel Johnson -
I appreciate the response and the support of fans, of people who actually don't mind watching me on screen... I just don't ever want to jeopardize that.
Ian Somerhalder -
With all due respect to the people who made the motorcycle movies during the '60s, I felt the sophistication level could be a bit higher, and I felt I could raise the bar on that, too.
Larry Bishop
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Even when I am writing I usually take a break around lunchtime and go for a little walk to clear out my head.
Patricia Cornwell -
I don't necessarily love the sports per se, I love the stories behind them. Also in a kind of perverse way I like to study what it does to us, why we care so much. It's caring about something that's utterly meaningless.
Harlan Coben -
The truth is I'm not actually an expert programmer! I really don't consider myself to be an expert at anything. For me, it's more about having a well-rounded and broad horizon. I think that's where a lot of the more interesting things come from - mashing up completely disparate aspects of life to create something new and original.
Aaron Koblin -
Flannery O'Connor's brief life and slim output were nonetheless marked by piercing powers of observation.
Floyd Skloot -
I left school at 16 and my mother got me a job as a trainee wine taster. But one day I followed some girls into St Martin's art school and saw a voluptuous woman sitting on a stool being sketched. I decided to get myself fired.
Malcolm Mclaren -
Net-a-porter is an environment where a woman can really indulge, browsing through more than 160 brands in our fashion playground.
Natalie Massenet
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'The Three Stooges' is great. And I was worried, just because there's so many things that have to go right. All three of those guys have to be amazing - everything has to be amazing. And everything went right.
Carly Craig -
Most people understand life expectancy has changed since Social Security started in 1937 when folks lived to be 59 years old. Today, they live to be 77 years old.
Jack Kingston -
I think that when people who've had success from a young age go through a train-wreck cycle, it's usually because they're working on someone else's terms, so they feel the need to rebel. But when it's something you've built, you don't have that same kind of resentment or angstiness. But it's also difficult to keep those standards for yourself.
Tavi Gevinson -
I want people to remember that Pakistan is my country. It is like my mother, and I love it dearly. Even if its people hate me, I will still love it.
Malala Yousafzai -
I used to give up writing like some people would give up smoking.
Octavia E. Butler -
We will walk on our own feet; we will work with our own hands; we will speak our own minds...A nation of men will for the first time exist, because each believes himself inspired by the Divine Soul which also inspires all men.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Our country as a whole, no less than the Hastings College of Law, values tolerance, cooperation, learning, and the amicable resolution of conflicts. But we seek to achieve those goals through 'a confident pluralism that conduces to civil peace and advances democratic consensus-building,' not by abridging First Amendment rights.
Samuel Alito -
A day of worry is more exhausting than a week of work.
John Lubbock -
I don't have a religion, but I respect them.
Paul Watson -
It isn't a calamity to die with dreams unfulfilled, but it is a calamity not to dream.
Benjamin E. Mays -
By and large, the world wants to move away from the nuclear era. The question is how fast and how far. In a world of sovereign nation-states, I can't rationalize any number above zero. If it's more than zero, you have to acknowledge every nation has the right to have them.
George Lee Butler -
I can't imagine not joking even at the worst of times. And for me, it's sort of automatic.
Elizabeth McCracken