Jill Lepore Quotes

Desktop computers - boxes inside boxes - began appearing in those cubicles in the mid-eighties, electrical cords curling on the floor like so many ropes.

Jill Lepore

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• I want to love life.

  

  Zoe Saldana
  • Life
  • Love
  • Love Life

• 'The Unity Band' project has been life-changing for me. I have led many groups of talented musicians, but this is unlike anything else.

  

  Pat Metheny
  • Life
  • Me
  • Band

• You put high heels on and you change.

  

  Manolo Blahnik
  • High
  • You
  • Change

• I never thought I would actually become a professional actor. I just kept going with it. One thing led to another.

  

  Laura Harrier
  • Never
  • Thought
  • Professional

• God was going to be to me the father that I never had, the father that I didn't have enough of, enough time with.

  

  Natalie Cole
  • Time
  • God
  • Father

• To do something funny, you have to have experienced it in real life and digested it in a way that amuses you.

  

  Ted Danson
  • Life
  • Real
  • You

• Telling stories has been a compulsion of mine since I could physically say, 'Once upon a time...' But in high school, I realized I could study creative writing in college and actually pursue it as a viable career.

  

  Victoria Aveyard
  • Time
  • Writing
  • School

• The advent of the digital age and the immediacy and convenience of digital video and photography allows people to become an integral part of the feedback loop which actively shapes the content we are fed.

  

  Damian Loeb
  • People
  • Age
  • Photography

• Find out how much God has given you and from it take what you need; the remainder is needed by others.

  

  Saint Augustine
  • God
  • Find
  • Need

• The benefit of film is that you're shooting something for an intense period of time - and then it's over, and you move on to something else. In TV, you're doing the same thing over and over.

  

  Nat Faxon
  • Time
  • Film
  • Period

• I should as soon think of swimming across Charles River when I wish to go to Boston, as of reading all my books in originals when I have them rendered for me in my mother tongue.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Mother
  • Reading
  • Wish

• If anyone did that, I absolutely apologize. … Because everything we do is based at adults. We're asking adults be responsible. You were telling me about giving your children meat and milk. They're going to be to grow up to be tubs of lard. They're getting heart attacks.

  

  Ingrid Newkirk
  • Up
  • Children
  • Heart

• He isn't insane, he's simply as trapped in his life as I am in mine. That makes us friends.

  

  Orson Scott Card
  • Life
  • Friends

• And, as the Cock crew, those who stood before The Tavern shouted - 'Open then the Door! You know how little while we have to stay, And, once departed, may return no more'.

  

  Omar Khayyam
  • May
  • Door

• All traditional logic habitually assumes that precise symbols are being employed. It is therefore not applicable to this terrestial life but only to an imagined celestial existence... logic takes us nearer to heaven than other studies.

  

  Bertrand Russell
  • Life
  • Heaven
  • Logic

• The rabble closed in; I was encircled; grit flew in my face like shrapnel.  Tall girls with frizzled hair, and huge boys with sharp elbows, began to prod me with hideous interest.  They plucked at my scarves, spun me round like a top, screwed my nose and stole my potato.

  

  Laurie Lee
  • Hair
  • Grit

• I don't know anybody who walks through life all the time in the doldrums, constantly serious and morose. But that's become what we generalize as drama.

  

  Matt Bomer
  • Life
  • Time
  • Serious

• I have an amazing family. I was raised in a wonderful mid-west family.

  

  Jana Kramer
  • Family
  • Amazing

• If Christ had not gone to the cross and suffered in our stead, the just for the unjust, there would not have been a spark of hope for us. There would have been a mighty gulf between ourselves and God, which no man ever could have passed.

  

  J. C. Ryle
  • God
  • Men
  • Hope

• From December to March, there are for many of us three gardens - the garden outdoors, the garden of pots and bowls in the house, and the garden of the mind's eye.

  

  Katharine Sergeant Angell White
  • House
  • Garden
  • Winter

• We have millions of users around the globe who do amazing things with our technology every day.

  

  Jack Dangermond
  • Technology
  • Day
  • Amazing

• You sail into the harbor, and Staten Island is on your left, and then you see the Statue of Liberty. This is what everyone in the world has dreams of when they think about New York. And I thought, 'My God, I'm in Heaven. I'll be dancing down Fifth Avenue like Fred Astaire with Ginger Rogers.'

  

  Frank McCourt
  • World
  • God
  • Heaven

• Desktop computers - boxes inside boxes - began appearing in those cubicles in the mid-eighties, electrical cords curling on the floor like so many ropes.

  

  Jill Lepore