Rachel Cusk Quotes

We who were born were not witnesses to our birth: like death, it is something we are forever after trying to catch sight of.

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• The most striking development of the great depression of 1929 is a profound skepticism of the future of contemporary society among large sections of the American people.

  

  C. L. R. James
  • People
  • Great
  • American

• Gossip can be entertaining: occasionally, I've heard the most fascinating things about myself I never knew.

  

  Vanna Bonta
  • Myself
  • Never
  • Gossip

• 'The Larry Sanders Show,' it's actually about love, which would sound like a paradox at first. But if that love didn't exist, the darker attitudes would not play. You would have a one-dimensional, cynical show, which I don't think the show was.

  

  Garry Shandling
  • Play
  • Like
  • Paradox

• Women always excel men in that sort of wisdom which comes from experience. To be a woman is in itself a terrible experience.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Men
  • Women
  • Experience

• A liberal public is interesting to have as an audience. It is for that very reason that corporations make such an effort to ally themselves with cultural institutions.

  

  Hans Haacke
  • Interesting
  • Effort
  • Liberal

• Having refuted, then, as well as we could, every notion which might suggest that we were to think of God as in any degree corporeal, we go on to say that, according to strict truth, God is incomprehensible, and incapable of being measured.

  

  Origen
  • God
  • Truth
  • Think

• I thought what would be really just choice for a revamp and a reboot is 'The Greatest American Hero.' I think I'd be just that kind of perfect not prepared for this kind of thing, but thrust into circumstances he's not prepared for... that's another niche of mine. Unpreparedness. Not knowing what to do. I'm good at being that guy.

  

  Nathan Fillion
  • Good
  • American
  • Guy

• You're allowed to make things for women on television, and there's not like... you don't have to go through the humiliation of having made something directed at women. There it's just accepted, whereas if it's a feature, it's like 'So, talk to me about chick flicks.' It's like... I don't think you want to hear my opinion about this.

  

  Callie Khouri
  • Women
  • Think
  • Me

• I need to have something else going on. I'm able to write a lot if I have an episode of 'Friday Night Lights' going on my computer.

  

  Hannibal Buress
  • Night
  • Need
  • Friday

• I don't think there's anything worse than your parents being alive and telling you to go give them some money and just act like they're dead.

  

  T-Pain
  • Money
  • Think
  • Parents

• Hollywood so often likes to make movies that are just about itself. I felt there were a lot of stories that were yet to be told in the middle of the country, and I wanted to capture some of that beauty.

  

  Sam Jaeger
  • Country
  • Beauty
  • Movies

• Shaming people into being virtuous doesn't change behaviour.

  

  Jaan Tallinn
  • People
  • Change
  • Being

• I live in a rural part of Virginia surrounded by farms and farmers.

  

  Barbara Kingsolver
  • Live
  • Surrounded
  • Rural

• I'm not very technically minded. I mean, I don't know how to do e-mail on computers.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • Know
  • Very
  • Computers

• The world depends on fungi, because they are major players in the cycling of materials and energy around the world.

  

  E. O. Wilson
  • World
  • Energy
  • Players

• I enjoy building something good and having a successful product and making money.

  

  Wayne Huizenga
  • Good
  • Money
  • Building

• Look, all this is about is utilizing the rules of the Senate, using a majority of the senators, to make sure that we get health reform done. We cannot wait another day.

  

  Barbara Boxer
  • Done
  • Health
  • Day

• There is no winning or losing, but rather the value is in the experience of imagining yourself as a character in whatever genre you're involved in, whether it's a fantasy game, the Wild West, secret agents or whatever else. You get to sort of vicariously experience those things.

  

  Gary Gygax
  • Character
  • Experience
  • Game

• When I was 3, my parents strapped on a pair of Playskool plastic roller skates to my feet, and that's where the story begins.

  

  J. R. Celski
  • Parents
  • Story
  • Feet

• You can't invent something you have no epistemological access to. In a way, it's all recombination.

  

  Elif Batuman

• I try to come in with a focus to stop my man and win the game. I'm always trying to be ready to catch them off their strides by being physical enough without getting fouls.

  

  Kawhi Leonard
  • Trying
  • Game
  • Stop

• Jesus' death was seen by Jesus himself ... as the ultimate means by which God's kingdom was established. The crucifixion was the shocking answer to the prayer that God's kingdom would come on earth as in heaven.

  

  N. T. Wright
  • God
  • Death
  • Earth

• Anything an artist does is to show ourselves as we really are, which is a complex thing. I don't think that one work of Philosophy or Art, or Letters, or Acting, or Middle Playing, or Tightrope Walking, or Flea Circuses has made mankind better, if by better you mean kinder, wiser, more tolerant of each other. One thing self knowledge. Knoticayton: know thyself.

  

  Peter O'Toole
  • Thinking
  • Art
  • Mean

• We who were born were not witnesses to our birth: like death, it is something we are forever after trying to catch sight of.

  

  Rachel Cusk
  • Trying
  • Death
  • Forever