James Howard Kunstler Quotes

I'm serenely convinced that we are heading into what will amount to a 'time out' from technological progress as we know it.

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• Time and time again, truly basic studies of simple experimental organisms have proved directly relevant to human biology and human disease. An investment in such basic studies is an effective investment indeed.

  

  H. Robert Horvitz
  • Time
  • Simple
  • Investment

• I had to let my ego go a long time ago.

  

  Sally Field
  • Time
  • Long
  • Ego

• There have been periods of my career that I haven't worked for a really long time, like seven or eight months.

  

  Parker Posey
  • Time
  • Long
  • Career

• I still think reading something like 'Ulysses' takes a tremendous investment of time, but it repays all of it with so much interest.

  

  D. B. Weiss
  • Time
  • Think
  • Reading

• I time everything. I'm a scientist at heart.

  

  Ina Garten
  • Time
  • Heart
  • Everything

• Little progress can be made by merely attempting to repress what is evil. Our great hope lies in developing what is good.

  

  Calvin Coolidge
  • Good
  • Great
  • Hope

• The fact of leaving one's country, one's family, one's roots, can be painful. My father had already found his place, but for us, for my mother, it was very difficult to get our bearings.

  

  Najat Vallaud-Belkacem
  • Country
  • Family
  • Mother

• We don't spend so much time on the opponent that we forget it's really about us.

  

  Dan Quinn
  • Time
  • Forget
  • Opponent

• I was lucky enough to have an older brother who shared the splatter flicks with me, and I had parents who were cool and involved enough in my life to allow me to see them. I think my folks appreciated that I looked at these movies as a creative outlet... almost like magic shows, if you will.

  

  Adam Green
  • Life
  • Parents
  • Cool

• This has been a trend for a long time; the days of lifetime employment are long since over.

  

  Marc Andreesen
  • Time
  • Long
  • Employment

• Hip-hop is really standoffish. It's really competitive and it's really about who's number one all the time. Sometimes it gets out of hand.

  

  Nas
  • Time
  • Hand
  • Sometimes

• Time dissolves in summer anyway: days are long, weekends longer. Hours get all thin and watery when you are lost in the book you'd never otherwise have time to read. Senses are sharper - something about the moist air and bright light and fruit in season - and so memories stir and startle.

  

  Nancy Gibbs
  • Time
  • Long
  • Book

• I don't work with Sia every day; it depends what we do, whether we do performances or music videos, so the schedule is weird, but when we're off, we always try to see each other in between. We just hang out; we went to brunch one time, but for the most part I go to her house, and we eat and watch TV.

  

  Maddie Ziegler
  • Time
  • Work
  • Music

• Slater's a big star and he's been in the business a long time. He's always in a good mood and easygoing but he takes his character very seriously.

  

  Uwe Boll
  • Time
  • Good
  • Long

• As a woman, you spend so much time either cooking or getting ready to go somewhere. I like to have music when I'm doing either of these things.

  

  Zoe Saldana
  • Time
  • Music
  • Woman

• When you pick up a novel from the bed side table, you put down your own life at the same time and you become another person for the duration.

  

  Barbara Kingsolver
  • Life
  • Up
  • Time

• Music is given to us with the sole purpose of establishing an order in things, including, and particularly, the coordination between man and time.

  

  Igor Stravinsky
  • Time
  • Music
  • Man

• When you play a lead role, you're in pretty much every scene. It's incredibly tiring. You really have to disappear into the film because you have no time to do anything else. You are either awake and playing the character, or you are trying to catch up on sleep.

  

  Gabriella Wilde
  • Up
  • Time
  • Trying

• Time is timelessness for you; Calendars for the human; What's a year, or thirty, to Loveliness made woman?

  

  Ogden Nash
  • Time

• The thing about 'On the Doll,' I was doing 'Nip/Tuck' at the time, and I was doing only 5 or 6 scenes an episode. So I had some free time, and I wanted to do something completely different than what I've ever done before.

  

  Brittany Snow
  • Time
  • Different
  • Done

• You can go out feet first, and that's not my desire, or you can say, I think we've served with distinction, and this is the time to go home and seek a new challenge.

  

  Jerry Kleczka
  • Time
  • Home
  • Desire

• In the time that I have been acquainted with this region I have become increasingly aware of it as a testament of water, the origin and guide of its contours and gradients and of all the lives - the plants and small creatures, and the culture - that evolved here. That was always here to be seen, of course, and the recognition has forced itself, in one form or other, upon people in every part of the world who have been directly involved with the growing of living things. The gardener who ignores it is soon left with no garden.

  

  W. S. Merwin
  • People
  • Time
  • World

• Who needs MGM? Who needs any of these places?

  

  D. B. Sweeney
  • Needs
  • Places
  • MGM

• I'm serenely convinced that we are heading into what will amount to a 'time out' from technological progress as we know it.

  

  James Howard Kunstler
  • Time
  • Progress