Mary Karr Quotes
I think being tortured as a virtue is a kind of antiquated sense of what it is to be an artist. It comes out of that Symbolist idea, back to Rimbaud and all that disordering of the senses and all of that being some exalted state. When I've been that way, I've always been less exalted than I would have liked.Mary Karr
Quotes to Explore
-
I am a Muslim. I am born to Muslim parents. I have a Muslim son. I have been imprisoned and witnessed torture for my previous understanding of my religion.
Maajid Nawaz -
I've met Michael Keaton, John Favreau, Marisa Tomei - they're all really amazing people and really, really professional. I've learned so much from just watching them operate on set.
Jacob Batalon -
Homer's work hits again and again on the topos of the inexpressible. People will always do that.
Umberto Eco -
I'm a professional actor, not a celebrity.
Pam Ferris -
If I weren't a performer, I would be still be writing and songwriting. Plus, I also really want to get into producing.
Manika -
Training a puppy is like raising a child. Every single interaction is a training opportunity.
Ian Dunbar
-
It's true what people say - that actors are the closest thing there is to children. They play.
Nastassja Kinski -
Every passion borders on the chaotic, but the collector's passion borders on the chaos of memories.
Walter Benjamin -
It was when I found out I could make mistakes that I knew I was on to something.
Ornette Coleman -
The purest joy for the human spirit and the sheerest delight for man's heart are the rapture of the spirit contained within the love of God.
Said Nursi -
Indeed, we must foster cost-saving competition. And that means joining the marketplace of other industrialized countries - not just for the manufacturers who sell drugs, but for consumers as well.
Olympia Snowe -
I've joked that I would have either become schizophrenic or an actress, but as an actress you can do both.
Carla Gugino
-
I'm nothing without God.
Taraji P. Henson -
You alone are enough.
Oprah Winfrey -
I was very happy being a secretary. I loved working for the government. I was very happy with my life.
Fawn Hall -
No men who really think deeply about women retain a high opinion of them; men either despise women or they have never thought seriously about them.
Otto Weininger -
Pooh said good-bye affectionately to his fourteen pots of honey, and hoped they were fifteen; and he and Rabbit went out into the Forest.
A. A. Milne -
The emphasis on religion as a basis of defining majorities and minorities in a secular state is quite misplaced and contradiction in terms. You all understand, I am sure, that religion does not aim at dividing. On the other hand, all true religions have a basic unity.
Lal Bahadur Shastri
-
Judaism’s campaign to make divinity invisible has never fully succeeded. Images are always eluding moral control, creating the brilliant western art tradition. Idolatry is fascism of the eye. The western eye will be served, with or without the consent of conscience.
Camille Paglia -
Actors are always looking for actor-proof parts. A part so good you can't screw it up!
John Rhys-Davies -
Human history is not the product of the wise direction of human reason, but is shaped by the forces of emotion-our dreams, our pride, our greed, our fears, and our desire for revenge.
Lin Yutang -
Already at sixteen, my mind was a battlefield: my love of pagan beauty, the male nude, at war with my religious faith. A polarity of themes and forms: one spiritual, the other earthly.
Michelangelo -
I think being tortured as a virtue is a kind of antiquated sense of what it is to be an artist. It comes out of that Symbolist idea, back to Rimbaud and all that disordering of the senses and all of that being some exalted state. When I've been that way, I've always been less exalted than I would have liked.
Mary Karr