Mary Gordon Quotes

My favorite dish is bibimbap, which is composed of various vegetables, steamed and pickled, and meat toppings over a bed of rice.

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• If you wish to forget anything on the spot, make a note that this thing is to be remembered.

  

  Edgar Allan Poe
  • You
  • Wish
  • Forget

• Our parents came home one day and heard us, and they thought it was the radio, but our grandfather told them it was us.

  

  Barry Gibb Bee Gees
  • Home
  • Parents
  • Day

• I don't have specific music for when I'm writing. I'm usually listening to the same playlist or 'artist' before I arrive at the computer as when I'm walking somewhere after leaving the computer.

  

  Tao Lin
  • Music
  • Writing
  • Listening

• Out of all the clubs who were interested, I got the feeling that, deep down, Chelsea showed that they really wanted me. There were lots of reasons I came to Chelsea. They showed a real desire to get me to come here. I didn't have to think about it too much.

  

  Eden Hazard
  • Feeling
  • Desire
  • Wanted

• I took classes taught by an elderly woman who wrote children's stories. She was polite about the science fiction and fantasy that I kept handing in, but she finally asked in exasperation, 'Can't you write anything normal?'

  

  Octavia E. Butler
  • Children
  • She
  • Science

• I went to school at night in L.A. to brush up on my engineering while I applied to the astronaut program. I really did not know if I would get in. It was the year after the Challenger accident in 1987.

  

  Mae Jemison
  • Up
  • School
  • Night

• I have been chastised by a president, I have antagonized and angered presidents, and I have taken on my own leadership.

  

  Xavier Becerra
  • Taken
  • Leadership
  • President

• Everybody in their own imagination decides what scary is.

  

  Yvonne Craig
  • Imagination
  • Scary
  • Own

• Tradition is an element that enters into play with destiny, because you are born into a particular family - Jewish or Islamic or Christian or Mexican - and your family determines to some extent what you are expected to become. And society is always there attempting to determine the role we will play within it.

  

  Laura Esquivel
  • Family
  • Society
  • Christian

• Monopoly and privilege must be destroyed, opportunity afforded, and competition encouraged. This is Liberty's work, and 'Down with Authority' her war-cry.

  

  Benjamin Tucker
  • Work
  • War
  • Opportunity

• Looks didn’t last forever and she wasn’t ready for religion yet. Money was kind of a good compromise, staked up somewhere between cosmetics and eternity.

  

  Edward St Aubyn
  • Up
  • Good
  • Money

• Part of a writer's job is just spacing out, looking into the air and imagining things.

  

  Kelly Sue DeConnick
  • Job
  • Air

• The devices that our kids use are shipped from the factory with every possible audio, visual or vibration alert switched on. Each new app, website, tweet and message adds another layer of intrusion - each intrusion is cynically designed to get a response, and each response creates an appetite for another intrusion.

  

  Beeban Kidron
  • Kids

• I went to art school, and I wanted to be an artist since I was 5. I basically moved to New York to do art, and I just sort of fell into doing music at an early age.

  

  Kim Gordon Sonic Youth
  • Music
  • School
  • Art

• Stephen King once told me he liked my writing. And that was great.

  

  Nelson DeMille
  • Great
  • Writing
  • King

• I love all types of music. Jazz, classical, blues, rock, hip-hop. I often write scripts to instrumentals like a hip-hop artist. Music inspires me to write. It's either music playing or completely silent. Sometimes distant sound fuels you. In New York there's always a buzzing beneath you.

  

  Chadwick Boseman
  • Music
  • Rock

• I was fascinated by movies from age 12.

  

  Jean Paul Gaultier
  • Age

• I'm a filmmaker. I'm always searching for the truth in everything I do. I demand it from my writing partner and my crew, actors, and so hopefully, we're making people think.

  

  Lee Daniels
  • People
  • Writing
  • Truth

• When I go forwards, you go backwards And somewhere we will meet.

  

  Thomas Edward Yorke Atoms for Peace
  • Backwards

• If the genius of invention were to reveal to-morrow the secret of immortality, of eternal beauty and youth, for which all humanity is aching, the same inexorable agents which prevent a mass from changing suddenly its velocity would likewise resist the force of the new knowledge until time gradually modifies human thought.

  

  Nikola Tesla
  • Knowledge
  • Humanity
  • Changing

• I am reading Jonson's verses to the memory of Shakespeare; an insolent, sparing, and invidious panegyric...

  

  John Dryden
  • Reading

• It's bad timing, but a lot of kids become teenagers just as their parents are hitting their mid-life crisis. So everybody's miserable and confused and seeking that new sense of identity.

  

  Laurie Halse Anderson
  • Life
  • Kids
  • Bad

• From Matthew Brady and the Civil War through, say, Robert Capa in World War II to people like Malcolm Brown and Tim Page in Vietnam. There was, seems to me, a kind of war-is-hell photography where the photographer is actually filming from life.

  

  David Shields
  • People
  • Life
  • World

• My favorite dish is bibimbap, which is composed of various vegetables, steamed and pickled, and meat toppings over a bed of rice.

  

  Mary Gordon