David Rakoff Quotes

Deprived of the opportunity to judge one another by the cars we drive, New Yorkers, thrown together daily on mass transit, form silent opinions based on our choices of subway reading. Just by glimpsing the cover staring back at us, we can reach the pinnacle of carnal desire or the depths of hatred. Soul mate or mortal enemy.

David Rakoff

• Together
• Soul
• Opportunity
• Reading
• Desire
• Choices
• Enemy
• Judge
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• The new meaning of soul is creativity and mysticism. These will become the foundation of the new psychological type and with him or her will come the new civilization.

  

  Otto Rank
  • Soul
  • Creativity
  • Meaning

• It is well known that my husband and Lady Thatcher enjoyed a very special relationship as leaders of their respective countries during one of the most difficult and pivotal periods in modern history. Ronnie and Margaret were political soul mates, committed to freedom and resolved to end Communism.

  

  Nancy Reagan
  • History
  • Soul
  • Political

• I listen to crazy, robust rock music where they sing their faces off, and soul music, which can be similar.

  

  Adam Lambert
  • Music
  • Soul
  • Crazy

• I came up in the theater, and I learned pretty quickly that reading a review, whether it's good or bad, can strangely affect the next performances, because you're reacting to something that's been said about you. So I tend to avoid that stuff pretty studiously.

  

  Dallas Roberts
  • Up
  • Good
  • Bad

• We have a vision of South Africa in which black and white shall live and work together as equals in conditions of peace and prosperity.

  

  Oliver Tambo
  • Work
  • Live
  • Together

• I met in the street a very poor young man who was in love. His hat was old, his coat worn, his cloak was out at the elbows, the water passed through his shoes, - and the stars through his soul.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Love
  • Soul
  • Young

• I can only say that I myself wrote always as I wished, without a tremendous desire to find the latest thing possible.

  

  Samuel Barber
  • Desire
  • Myself
  • Find

• Majesty and love do not consort well together, nor do they dwell in the same place.

  

  Ovid
  • Love
  • For Her
  • Dwell

• Education... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading.

  

  G. M. Trevelyan
  • Education
  • Reading
  • Worth

• If God should desire to raise us to the position of one who is an intimate and shares his secrets, we ought to accept this gladly.

  

  Saint Teresa of Avila
  • God
  • Desire
  • Accept

• Even if you have $20,000 to buy an item, you still try to get a good price at antique stores. I collect furniture, rugs, paintings, frames. It's my hobby to go around to shops and markets.

  

  Ursula Andress
  • Good
  • Try
  • Hobby

• I'm so damn boring. I like reading and writing and making coffee. And walking. Barry Jenkins likes long walks.

  

  Barry Jenkins
  • Long
  • Writing
  • Reading

• I really believe deep in my soul that we're going to have to step up and face these challenges and be tough and pull together and unify and be creative and be willing to sacrifice.

  

  Zach Wamp
  • Up
  • Believe
  • Together

• My friends and I often film videos when we get together and hang out, and they're usually just silly situational videos just for our own amusement.

  

  Ed Oxenbould
  • Friends
  • Together
  • Silly

• I don't know David Cameron very well. I like him. I think you can judge a book by its cover - whoever said you can't is wrong - that's the whole point of nature giving us intuition, instinct and so on. I think the cover is pretty good.

  

  Zac Goldsmith
  • Good
  • Book
  • Nature

• The daily quota I've set for myself is 500 words or approximately a page and a half double-spaced. Which isn't much, except that I'm extremely slow, extremely meticulous. 'Le mot juste' haunts me. On a good day, I will finally secrete the 500th word at about 5 o'clock, and I'll reward myself by going to Housing Works Bookstore to read.

  

  Said Sayrafiezadeh
  • Good
  • Words
  • Day

• Writers really live in the mind and in hotels of the soul.

  

  Edna O'Brien
  • Live
  • Mind
  • Soul

• If you're a pop singer, you don't need to evolve. You just get a set together, have some hit songs and play them over and over.

  

  Van Morrison
  • Together
  • Play
  • Need

• We discussed the history of postwar Japan and how Japan had missed an opportunity to build a more functional democracy because of the focus on fighting communism driven in large part by the American occupation.

  

  Joichi Ito
  • American
  • History
  • Opportunity

• I love road trips. If you haven't been on one in a while, it's time to put a trip on your calendar. Driving can help clear the cobwebs of your mind, and you can learn a lot about your fellow Americans while you're at it.

  

  Dana Perino
  • Time
  • Mind
  • Love

• I just have to proceed as usual. No matter what happens, nothing helps with the writing of the next book.

  

  Frank McCourt
  • Writing
  • Book

• A book is a story, even if it's non-fiction, and once I've read it, I have the story with me inside my head always.

  

  Sara Sheridan
  • Book
  • Stories
  • Fiction

• For lonely people, rain is a chance to be touched.

  

  Simon Van Booy
  • Rain
  • Touched
  • Lonely People

• Deprived of the opportunity to judge one another by the cars we drive, New Yorkers, thrown together daily on mass transit, form silent opinions based on our choices of subway reading. Just by glimpsing the cover staring back at us, we can reach the pinnacle of carnal desire or the depths of hatred. Soul mate or mortal enemy.

  

  David Rakoff
  • Together
  • Soul
  • Opportunity