David Remnick Quotes
The world is a crazy, beautiful, ugly complicated place, and it keeps moving on from crisis to strangeness to beauty to weirdness to tragedy. The caravan keeps moving on, and the job of the longform writer or filmmaker or radio broadcaster is to stop - is to pause - and when the caravan goes away, that's when this stuff comes.
David Remnick
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The networks are not some chicken-coop manufacturing lobby whose calls nobody returns.
Ralph Nader
You might not agree with me, but I always offer a lot of support.
Vincent Bugliosi
All my life I had feared to-morrow, until I decided to have faith and to live to-day in courage.
Vash Young
At what point then is the approach of danger to be expected? I answer, if it ever reach us, it must spring up amongst us. It cannot come from abroad. If destruction be our lot, we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of freemen, we must live through all time, or die by suicide.
Abraham Lincoln
When I was very young, I wanted to be a girl. I was jealous that girls got to be princesses and wear skirts. It tormented me. When I was 6, I even heard that you could change your sex, and I was very intrigued until the moment I realized that if I changed into a girl, I would be an ugly girl, and this is the last thing I wanted to be.
Olivier Theyskens
A man will turn over half a library to make one book.
Samuel Johnson
Before I write a novel, images float around in my head that work like icons - they are meaningless in themselves, but serve as reminders.
Jane Smiley
There is a good principle which created order, light, and man, and an evil principle which created chaos, darkness, and woman.
Pythagoras
I never get the girl. I wind up with a country instead. They said all I was good for was playing Indians.
Anthony Quinn
We have to embrace the good over the bad. That has to be one's personal project.
Yusef Komunyakaa
The Wright brothers' first flight was shorter than a Boeing 747's wing span. We've just begun with heart transplants.
C. Walton Lillehei
The world is a crazy, beautiful, ugly complicated place, and it keeps moving on from crisis to strangeness to beauty to weirdness to tragedy. The caravan keeps moving on, and the job of the longform writer or filmmaker or radio broadcaster is to stop - is to pause - and when the caravan goes away, that's when this stuff comes.
David Remnick
