John Crowley Quotes
I've always had a compassion for characters in novels - the sense that they are, whatever they might think, living in a world that has a shape they don't know and can't finally alter.John Crowley
Quotes to Explore
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The only thing that matters is what happens on the little hump out in the middle of the field.
Earl Weaver -
You have to find out how to become the character.
Kara Hayward -
I was mostly an indoor girl at university. Where other students did drama or music or sport alongside their degrees, I wrote. I used to work on essays and classwork during the day and 'The Bone Season' in the evenings.
Samantha Shannon -
We have almost succeeded in leveling all human activities to the common denominator of securing the necessities of life and providing for their abundance.
Hannah Arendt -
Schizophrenia beats dining alone.
Oscar Levant -
The more laws and order are made prominent, the more thieves and robbers there will be.
Lao Tzu
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Eventually somebody will want me, and there will be a role that is mine.
Rachel Brosnahan -
What I always say to people is dress from the feet up. If you don't normally wear colour, try some colour on your feet; it's the place, I think you can have fun and update your outfit.
Edgardo Osorio -
I see many black males grasping for some thread of hope. There are so many destructive practices, glimpses into a psychic abyss. That must be very frightening.
Yusef Komunyakaa -
When you go to jail, there's so much simple stuff missing. You just want some good toilet paper or a real toothbrush, a real blanket and a real bed to lay in.
Ja Rule -
Sometimes you have to exercise your insanity, to really make it strong.
Flula Borg -
If we all band together against extremism and spend a few minutes a day using tools that have been proven to work, we can make a big difference in defending those values we share as Americans.
Laura Moser
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Commercials capture your attention, that's all.
Calvin Klein -
I think if you are creative then it's an unstoppable thing. It just keeps coming throughout your entire life.
Gary Numan -
The world is a beautiful book, but of little use to him who cannot read it.
Carlo Goldoni -
I've had people call me from bands that are very popular, and they're like, 'What do we do? We want to do what you do.' It's almost impossible to do what I do, because you would have to start in 1980. You can't just do it.
Ian MacKaye -
When you're going through a breakup, you should just let yourself feel everything so you can get over it as opposed to pretending everything's okay and dragging it out.
Hannah Simone -
I listen to all kinds of music, honestly.
Victoria Justice
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What does being a woman today mean? Is there a right way of doing it? Is there a wrong way of doing it? Different kinds of women, female friendships: It's all pretty funny, and worth making fun of.
Elizabeth Meriwether -
This summer, we need to let our kids go play and we need to stop worrying about whether or not it's going to ruin their chances of getting into college.
Darell Hammond -
I am in the world feeling my way to light 'amid the encircling gloom.'
Mahatma Gandhi -
Hope is a state of mind independent of the state of the world. If your heart's full of hope, you can be persistent when you can't be optimistic. You can keep the faith despite the evidence, knowing that only in so doing has the evidence any chance of changing. So while I'm not optimistic, I'm always very hopeful.
William Sloane Coffin -
It's always good to be around nice-looking people.
Ed Westwick -
I've always had a compassion for characters in novels - the sense that they are, whatever they might think, living in a world that has a shape they don't know and can't finally alter.
John Crowley