Elizabeth Strout Quotes

If you get divorced in New York, you go into therapy and will talk to anybody you meet on the sidewalk about it.

Elizabeth Strout

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• Believe in something larger than yourself... get involved in the big ideas of your time.

  

  Barbara Bush
  • Time
  • Believe
  • Yourself

• I know that people in fashion and people in general hate to be filmed.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • People
  • Hate
  • Fashion

• Writers are so important.

  

  Adam Driver
  • Important
  • Writers

• Sunseeker is well placed to take full advantage of opportunities in China, one of the world's fastest growing luxury yacht markets.

  

  Wang Jianlin
  • World
  • Growing
  • Opportunities

• A number of people in the United States, almost everyone, is using plastic cards to pay for things, but it's extremely difficult to accept these cards. So let's make it's easy and take more and more of the friction out as we can.

  

  Jack Dorsey
  • People
  • Easy
  • Cards

• 'Baahubali's success augurs well for the Telugu film industry as a whole. It has opened up new markets.

  

  Mahesh Babu
  • Up
  • Success
  • Film

• It's fun being paid to read stuff and air your opinion about it - pretty much a dream job for a writer.

  

  Patrick Ness
  • Job
  • Fun
  • Pretty

• Holidays have been commercialized. It has become about material things. But the holidays are about sharing stories and being in each other's presence.

  

  Malcolm D. Lee
  • Presence
  • Holidays
  • Sharing

• If you real from the heart, you real from the heart. That ain't got nothing to do with no sex or gender.

  

  Quavo Migos
  • Real
  • Heart
  • Sex

• Somebody might get criticized for doing some movie that totally sucks, then turn around and be incredible. Every actor goes through that, not just musicians who act.

  

  Lance Bass NSYNC
  • Movie
  • Doing
  • Act

• I played sports year around: basketball, soccer, softball and I ran track year around, from the time I was, like, six, seven.

  

  Gabrielle Union
  • Time
  • Sports
  • Basketball

• I think sometimes my controlling instincts came out of a fear of other people.

  

  Gary Kemp Spandau Ballet
  • People
  • Think
  • Fear

• The human animal differs from the lesser primates in his passion for lists.

  

  H. Allen Smith
  • Passion
  • Animal
  • Human

• As far as I am concerned, poetry is a statement concerning the human condition, composed in verse.

  

  N. Scott Momaday
  • Poetry
  • Human
  • Condition

• There's always been a relationship between the film world and fashion.

  

  Eddie Redmayne
  • World
  • Relationship
  • Fashion

• The black man should seek to be, and he should be encouraged to be, the best possible black man and not the best possible imitation of a white man.

  

  Warren G. Harding
  • Black

• 'I would define ‘avarice’ as a consequence of the human estate: a condition arising from turbulence and inequality. In none of the paradises, where conditions are no doubt optimum, does ‘avarice’ exert force. Here, we are men struggling toward perfection and ‘avarice’ is a station along the way.'

  

  Jack Vance
  • Men
  • Doubt

• The less we show our love to a woman,Or please her less, and neglect our duty,The more we trap and ruin her surelyIn the flattering toils of philandery.

  

  Alexander Pushkin

• I am SHADOW, and my dwelling is near to the Catacombs of Ptolemais, and hard by those dim plains of Helusion which border upon the foul Charonian canal." And then did we, the seven, start from our seats in horror, and stand trembling, and shuddering, and aghast, for the tones in the voice of the shadow were not the tones of any one being, but of a multitude of beings, and, varying in their cadences from syllable to syllable fell duskly upon our ears in the well-remembered and familiar accents of many thousand departed friends.

  

  Edgar Allan Poe
  • Shadow
  • Dwelling
  • Catacombs of Ptolemais

• I love tennis more than designing because it's actually easier and I don't get nearly as nervous.

  

  Serena Williams
  • Design
  • Tennis
  • Nervous

• My interest is always to get as deeply as I can into the minds and spirits of the characters and let the readers empathize or judge as they will.

  

  Adam Haslett
  • Judge
  • Interest
  • Readers

• So, the emerging church is about a re-imagining: re-imagining our preaching, our evangelism, and our worship services. A re-imagining of new types of churches and an opportunity to be rethinking all we do because we recognize that the next generation is at stake if we don't.

  

  Dan Kimball
  • Opportunity
  • Church
  • Worship

• In so far as a scientific statement speaks about reality, it must be falsifiable; and in so far as it is not falsifiable, it does not speak about reality.

  

  Karl Popper
  • Reality
  • Speak
  • Statement

• If you get divorced in New York, you go into therapy and will talk to anybody you meet on the sidewalk about it.

  

  Elizabeth Strout