Deborah Eisenberg Quotes

I'm a very spoiled writer. I need to be indolent, to waste a lot of paper. I'm inefficient.

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• I don't really take a step back too often to see what's going on.

  

  Gavin DeGraw
  • See
  • Back
  • Step

• Artists are political in the sense that they've subtracted themselves from the structure of the marketplace and are contributing something that's not utilitarian. Even though books get sold, and I get advances, I get to look at society and think for a living.

  

  Rachel Kushner
  • Think
  • Society
  • Political

• You know in the West they support realistic forces.

  

  Eduard Shevardnadze
  • You
  • Know
  • Support

• I was very young during 'Chachi 420' and don't remember much now.

  

  Fatima Sana Shaikh
  • Remember
  • Young
  • Now

• The Founding Fathers of our nation believed in the people. They created a new nation based on the radical notion that the people could be free and trusted - that the nation would be great if you trusted the people to be good.

  

  Sam Brownback
  • People
  • Good
  • Great

• Being able to breathe underwater would be sweet. There is so much life underneath the water that we don't know about. I would love to check out the bottom of the ocean to see what's going on down there.

  

  Cameron Bright
  • Life
  • Know
  • Ocean

• Just as we reject racism, sexism, ageism, and heterosexism, we reject speciesism. The species of a sentient being is no more reason to deny the protection of this basic right than race, sex, age, or sexual orientation is a reason to deny membership in the human moral community to other humans.

  

  Gary L. Francione
  • Age
  • Community
  • Moral

• I describe myself as someone who was always putting on a show, even when I was a little girl. I wanted to be an actress but I liked organizing everybody and putting on plays. I was a producer.

  

  Laura Ziskin
  • Girl
  • Myself
  • Always

• Young women and men who joined the far-left groups did so for the best of reasons. They wanted to change the world. Many fought against the stifling atmosphere in many groups.

  

  Tariq Ali
  • World
  • Men
  • Women

• Learn the lesson that, if you are to do the work of a prophet, what you want is not a sceptre, but a hoe. The prophet does not rise to reign, but to root out the weeds.

  

  Saint Bernard
  • Work
  • Want
  • Learn

• Bigotry should never be sanctioned, whether intentionally or unintentionally.

  

  Barry O'Farrell
  • Never
  • Should
  • Sanctioned

• Well, I don't find glamour and clothing relevant.

  

  Tea Leoni
  • Find
  • Glamour
  • Clothing

• The power of the ADA is that it ended up changing my life long before I ever imagined it would.

  

  Tammy Duckworth
  • Life
  • Up
  • Long

• It is very true that D.C. often operates in the land of caricature.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • True
  • Very
  • Land

• The idea is not enough. And the most annoying thing for me as a writer is that people will come up to me and say, 'Hey, I've got a great idea for a book. I'm not a writer, but I've got a great story.'

  

  Irvine Welsh
  • People
  • Up
  • Great

• I need to complete my homework on time.

  

  Malala Yousafzai
  • Time
  • Education
  • Homework

• I met Kim Kardashian the other week, and she knew who I was! I walked in the room, and she was like, 'I should text Kanye saying you're here; he showed me your music.' It's really hard to digest. Also, I don't think you should digest stuff like that.

  

  Sam Smith
  • Music
  • She
  • Week

• Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Love
  • Wise
  • Fool

• I started to make a study of the art of war and revolution and, whilst abroad, underwent a course in military training. If there was to be guerrilla warfare, I wanted to be able to stand and fight with my people and to share the hazards of war with them.

  

  Nelson Mandela
  • People
  • Art
  • War

• I would say the referees have the toughest game to call. I would say that there's a lot of officiating done by announcers, local announcers. Sometimes you should listen to a game from both feeds, and you'd think you were listening to completely different games.

  

  David Stern
  • Different
  • Done
  • Game

• Always tell the truth - it's the easiest thing to remember.

  

  David Mamet
  • Truth
  • Remember

• We're moving to this integration of biomedicine, information technology, wireless and mobile now - an era of digital medicine. Even my stethoscope is now digital. And of course, there's an app for that.

  

  Daniel Kraft
  • Technology
  • Moving

• What can books of men that wive In a dragon-guarded land, Paintings of the dolphin-drawn Sea-nymphs in their pearly wagons Do, but awake a hope to live...?

  

  William Butler Yeats
  • Life
  • Live
  • Art

• I'm a very spoiled writer. I need to be indolent, to waste a lot of paper. I'm inefficient.

  

  Deborah Eisenberg