Elyn Saks Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
In order to acquire a growing and lasting respect in society, it is a good thing, if you possess great talent, to give, early in your youth, a very hard kick to the right shin of the society that you love. After that, be a snob.
-
A historical romance is the only kind of book where chastity really counts.
-
I worked with the Neville Brothers for 40-some years on the highway, and up and down since I can remember - funk from New Orleans.
-
I've always been interested in family secrets and what happens behind closed doors. I find that fascinating and creepy - that's why I read: because I want to know other people's secrets.
-
Get me well so I can get on television and tell people to stop smoking.
-
Only those ignorant of what poetry means will ask the question: what is it good for?
-
Even before it opened its retail arm, Beigh was renowned among pashmina cognoscenti for the quality and complexity of the work produced in its workshop, a large, airy, sunlit rectangle of a room directly across from its second-floor shop.
-
The willingness to be self-critical in England is much greater than the willingness to be self-critical in America.
-
Most faults are not in our Constitution, but in ourselves.
-
I am a very loyal man and always keep my promises when I commit to something.
-
We believed that to understand literature, you had to understand its place in history and culture.
-
I saw hell. The hospital had divided and conquered pretty successfully.
-
A lot of people can't remember things because they weren't actually there to begin with - they don't take it all in.
-
To understand why dictators have a problem with making peace - or at least a genuine peace - the link between the nature of a regime and its external behavior must be understood.
-
The best way to hold a man is in your arms.
-
I learned that five- and-six-year-old kids have already figured out how to be intolerant.
-
Like most of those who study history, he (Napoleon III) learned from the mistakes of the past how to make new ones.
-
I missed quite a lot of school because I was working from the age of 11.
-
Nor shall derision prove powerful against those who listen to humanity or those who follow in the footsteps of divinity, for they shall live forever. Forever.
-
The paradox is really the pathos of intellectual life and just as only great souls are exposed to passions it is only the great thinker who is exposed to what I call paradoxes, which are nothing else than grandiose thoughts in embryo.
-
I would change policy, bring back natural grass and nickel beer. Baseball is the belly-button of our society. Straighten out baseball, and you straighten out the rest of the world.
-
The most common thing over the years is, 'What's it like to work with David Lynch?' That's absolutely the fascination, whether it's people that are in the industry or it's just diehard fans. Because he's our modern-day master. We're lucky enough to be alive at the time that an absolute master and genius is working.
-
The truth of the matter is that chess is not the game of life because life does not ever happen the way you strategize and plan.
-
Choose your friends wisely, and also choose friends that you can trust.
