Jeff Vandermeer Quotes

I do believe very much in the idea of unexpected or 'convulsive' beauty - beauty in the service of liberty.

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• The mirror to the beautiful is beautiful.

  

  Said Nursi
  • Beautiful
  • Mirror

• I'd rather learn from one bird how to sing than teach ten thousand stars how not to dance.

  

  e. e. cummings
  • Learning
  • Dance
  • Stars

• Just because I have two world records, everyone assumes that means automatically it is two guaranteed gold medals, but it isn't like that, and anything can happen in a race.

  

  Adam Peaty
  • World
  • Gold
  • Race

• It is the spirit and not the form of law that keeps justice alive.

  

  Earl Warren
  • Law
  • Justice
  • Spirit

• You make knowledge relevant to life and you make it important for children to learn things that will really relate to things going on in their lives, and not abstract.

  

  Talib Kweli Black Star
  • Life
  • Important
  • Children

• I never had crushes on anybody when I was younger; I really didn't.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • Never
  • Younger
  • Anybody

• In my state, over 17,000 households are going hungry on a regular basis.

  

  Patrick J. Kennedy
  • Going
  • Hungry
  • Over

• Before every show, we get into a circle, hold hands, and someone makes a speech. Most bands are too cool for that.

  

  Flea Red Hot Chili Peppers
  • Cool
  • Hands
  • Speech

• The shows at the Hilton are the most exciting shows I've ever done. The stage is huge, but the theater is intimate, so we can have a magnificent production and still connect with the audience.

  

  Barry Manilow
  • Done
  • Most
  • Connect

• I crave attention and adventure.

  

  Eddie Cibrian
  • Attention
  • Adventure
  • Crave

• No, I worked a lot for European television, doing documentaries in Brazil.

  

  Walter Salles
  • Doing
  • Television
  • Brazil

• I was told that, when 'Betrayal' was being produced by one of the provincial companies in England, the two actors playing those roles actually went into a pub one day and played that scene as if it were really happening to them. The people around them became very uncomfortable.

  

  Harold Pinter
  • People
  • Day
  • Betrayal

• I like writers who seem to write because they have to. You get the feeling of this burning desire to tell a story. I find it in Peter Carey, Nicola Barker, Ali Smith and David Foster Wallace.

  

  Patrick Ness
  • Feeling
  • Desire
  • Write

• War used to be something you could stand on the nearby hill and watch. Now we have total war; everybody's in it. We have total economics as well. Everything affects everybody. The Malaysian currency shakes, and people around the world are seriously affected.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • People
  • World
  • War

• A fine world in which man reproaches woman with fulfilling his heart's desire!

  

  Karl Kraus
  • World
  • Heart
  • Man

• There's a rule of thumb in politics. If you're at a point where you're complaining about the other guy being mean and unfair and uncivil, that's probably a sign that you're losing.

  

  Laura Ingraham
  • Guy
  • Mean
  • Politics

• I never trusted good-looking boys.

  

  Frances McDormand
  • Good
  • Trust
  • Never

• The fixed stars signify the angel in man. That is why man orients himself by them; and that is why women have no appreciation for the starry sky; because they have no sense of the angel in man.

  

  Otto Weininger
  • Women
  • Why
  • Sky

• We signed up for Showtime, which I think put us on a Homeland Security list somewhere.

  

  Kate Clinton
  • Up
  • Think
  • Security

• Pitch tip: Speak confidently about your product, but be able to admit when you need more information, and get it to the people you're pitching quickly after the meeting.

  

  Alexis Ohanian
  • People

• The most common cause of unanswered prayer is prayerlessness.

  

  Bill Hybels
  • Prayer

• Pride counterbalances all our miseries, for it either hides them, or, if it discloses them, boasts of that disclosure. Pride has such a thorough possession of us, even in the midst of our miseries and faults, that we are prepared to sacrifice life with joy, if it may but be talked of.

  

  Blaise Pascal
  • Pride
  • Faults
  • Possession

• It's a beautiful religion and I wish I understood it more. No, I don't want to understand it all. It's beautiful because it's always a mystery. Sometimes I say I don't believe in God and Jesus and Mary. I'm a bad Catholic because I miss mass once in a while and I grumble when, at confession, I get a heavy penance for something I couldn't help doing. But good or bad, I am a Catholic and I'll never be anything else. Of course, I didn't ask to be born Catholic, no more than I asked to be born American. But I'm glad it turned out that I'm both these things.

  

  Betty Smith
  • Good
  • God
  • Believe

• I do believe very much in the idea of unexpected or 'convulsive' beauty - beauty in the service of liberty.

  

  Jeff Vandermeer
  • Believe
  • Service