Ertharin Cousin Quotes

I'm lucky. As soon as I open my mouth, people see I know what I'm talking about, and when I leave the room, I think most say, 'She's OK.'

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• Work on good prose has three steps: a musical stage when it is composed, an architectonic one when it is built, and a textile one when it is woven.

  

  Walter Benjamin
  • Good
  • Work
  • Three

• I love entertaining and doing Martha Stewart stuff.

  

  Laura Prepon
  • Love
  • Doing
  • Entertaining

• If I were president, I am not sure that I would offer Ed Rendell the job of chief of staff.

  

  Ed Rendell
  • Job
  • President
  • Ed Rendell

• I love the road, and I love coming in contact with the fans. They talk to me and that's irreplaceable. But when I get tired, I head to the studio and I am in there for a long time.

  

  Yiannis Chryssomallis
  • Time
  • Long
  • Love

• I don't know that I'll ever get to make my ideal film, because Frank Capra is dead.

  

  Haley Bennett
  • Know
  • Film
  • Dead

• My dad is Scottish, and he read in the newspaper about the plight of the Scottish Freshwater Mussel, which is a real thing - like, a very real, serious conservation issue. And he's a writer, and he was going to do a film about a Glaswegian gangster, and then I stole the idea and turned it into a romantic comedy.

  

  Talulah Riley
  • Real
  • Dad
  • Comedy

• Barbarism is needed every four or five hundred years to bring the world back to life. Otherwise it would die of civilization.

  

  Edmond de Goncourt
  • Life
  • World
  • Die

• I'm not just a normal guy. I'm a gymnast.

  

  Action Bronson
  • Guy
  • Just
  • Normal

• I condemn what happened in Madrid, but it is suspicious. If tomorrow there will be another bombing, in France for example, who will gain power? Of course not Jacques Chirac, but Le Pen.

  

  Walid Jumblatt
  • Power
  • Tomorrow
  • Pen

• You can almost judge how screwed up somebody is by the kind of toilet paper they use. Go in any rich house and it's some weird coloured embossed stuff.

  

  Captain Beefheart
  • Up
  • House
  • You

• No matter where you are from, no matter what your background is, no matter what your socioeconomic status is, every person can achieve his or her dreams.

  

  Ileana Ros-Lehtinen
  • Dreams
  • Achieve
  • Her

• A transposable aphorism is a malaise of the urge to be witty, or in other words, a maxim that is untroubled by the fact that the opposite of what it says is equally true so long as it appears to be funny.

  

  Umberto Eco
  • Long
  • True
  • Words

• Any writer who gives a reader a pleasurable experience is doing every other writer a favor because it will make the reader want to read other books. I am all for it.

  

  S. E. Hinton
  • Experience
  • Books
  • Writer

• I get used to my fountain pens and my clothes, and I can never throw them away. I replace them only when I see that they are broken or embarrassing to wear.

  

  Orhan Pamuk
  • Never
  • Broken
  • Clothes

• I'm probably the most negative person around.

  

  Natalie du Toit
  • Person
  • Negative
  • Most

• The plastic surgery issue is really looming because girls in the U.S. are getting it in their teens.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Surgery
  • Plastic Surgery

• I worry a lot about taking care of my dependents, all those perfectly ordinary middle-class preoccupations.

  

  Orson Welles
  • Care
  • Worry
  • Ordinary

• I support the Civil Rights Act and the Voting Rights Act.

  

  Rand Paul
  • Support
  • Rights
  • Voting

• We ran a lap in practice that I screwed up on but will still ran a decent lap.

  

  Bobby Labonte
  • Practice
  • Lap
  • Screwed Up

• I agree with Proust in this, he says, that books create their own silences in ways that friends rarely do. And the silence that grows palpable when one has finished a canto of Dante, he says, is quite different from the silence that grows palpable when one has reached the end of Oedipus at Colonus. The most terrible thing that has happened to people today, he says, is that they have grown frightened of silence. Instead of seeking it as a friend and as a source of renewal they now try in every way they can to shut it out... the fear of silence is the fear of loneliness, he says, and the fear of loneliness is the fear of silence. People fear silence, he says, because they have lost the ability to trust the world to bring about renewal. Silence for them means only the recognition that they have been abandoned... How can people find the strength to be happy if they are so terrified of silence?

  

  Gabriel Josipovici
  • People
  • Friend
  • Silence

• Forgiveness is no longer an option but a necessity for healing.

  

  Caroline Myss
  • Healing
  • Positivity

• I'm lucky. As soon as I open my mouth, people see I know what I'm talking about, and when I leave the room, I think most say, 'She's OK.'

  

  Ertharin Cousin
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