Delmore Schwartz Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
In writing 'The Satanic Verses,' I think I was writing for the first time from the whole of myself. The English part, the Indian part. The part of me that loves London, and the part that longs for Bombay. And at my typewriter, alone, I could indulge this.
-
I feel pressure, but my emotions just don't show that much in my face.
-
I personally think Beyonce's a strong feminist. What she's done in music and for women is unprecedented. I love her. She definitely makes me feel like more of a woman.
-
I don't have business with any politicians.
-
I'm not into the attention thing so much.
-
If I was a condiment, I'm gonna go ahead and say I would be Sriracha, because I go well with other things. I'm too much for some people, and hipsters like me.
-
Every day is like Halloween or Christmas eve for me. I go to bed, and I'm so excited to get back to work. I'm very lucky that I have a career like that 'cause not many people do.
-
I like freedom. I wake up in the morning and say, 'I don't know, should I have a popsicle or a donut?' You know, who knows?
-
English football is so physical and fast that when you see a space, you have to go into it with all your speed.
-
Jordan is the only Arab state that has provided citizenship to Palestinian refugees and integrated them. But something has to be done about the Palestinians living in refugee camps in Syria and Lebanon.
-
I haven't been to a movie since somebody gave me free tickets to Star Wars, which I went to.
-
And also I didn't want my future to be just sitting in a room and be imprisoned in my four walls and just cooking and giving birth to children. I didn't want to see my life in that way.
-
The human mind evolved to believe in the gods. It did not evolve to believe in biology.
-
Novel writing wrecks homes.
-
I did not come to NASA to make history.
-
I never believed that India could win a medal in badminton because the competition is so tough.
-
I think people would be most surprised to know that I love scary movies.
-
We need to internalize this idea of excellence. Not many folks spend a lot of time trying to be excellent.
-
Both need each other: The agnostic cannot be content to not know, but must be in search of the great truth of faith; the Catholic cannot be content to have faith, but must be in search of God all the time, and in the dialogue with others, a Catholic can learn more about God in a deeper fashion.
-
When I started writing, I did have some idealised notion of my dad as a writer. But I have less and less of a literary rivalry with him as I've gone on. I certainly don't feel I need his approval, although maybe that's because I'm confident that I've got it.
-
I have no trouble with my enemies. I can take care of my enemies all right. But my damn friends, my god-damned friends, White, they're the ones who keep me walking the floor nights!
-
Utility is when you have one telephone, luxury is when you have two, opulence is when you have three - and paradise is when you have none.
-
We lay down a fundamental principle of generalization by abstraction: The existence of analogies between central features of various theories implies the existence of a general theory which underlies the particular theories and unifies them with respect to those central features.
-
Sometimes even paranoids have enemies.
