Heidi Julavits Quotes

I spend far too much time on eBay buying lamps and upholstery remnants.

Heidi Julavits

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• I would never say no to anything that sounded interesting! The thing I like about making films is that the adventure just begins when you pick up the camera.

  

  D. A. Pennebaker
  • Up
  • Interesting
  • Adventure

• I can't help detesting my relations. I suppose it comes from the fact that none of us can stand other people having the same faults as ourselves.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • People
  • Faults
  • Relations

• The highest wisdom adopts the humblest of bodies.

  

  Antoni Tapies
  • Wisdom
  • Bodies
  • Adopts

• I suppose I'd have to say that my favourite author is Homer. After Homer's Ilaid, I'd name The Odyssey, and then I'd mention a number of plays of Euripides.

  

  William Golding
  • Names
  • Favourite
  • Odyssey

• I set many of my stories in a gritty "realist" world, but one that is plagued by an overuse of technology, which is akin to the world we find ourselves living in now.

  

  Alexander Weinstein
  • World
  • Technology
  • Living

• Good design, like good painting, cooking, architecture or whatever you like, is a manifestation of the capacity of the human spirit to transcend its limitations.

  

  George Nelson
  • Design
  • Spirit
  • Architecture

• More computing sins are committed in the name of efficiency (without necessarily achieving it) than for any other single reason - including blind stupidity.

  

  William Wulf
  • Reason
  • Computer
  • Stupidity

• I just can't afford to get bored, because if you've been blessed with a generous imagination, which a lot of actors have, to be engaged, to be stimulated, is to liberate your imagination.

  

  John C. McGinley
  • Imagination
  • Bored
  • Stimulated

• Over time, I've come to recognize what others bring to the table, and I've developed a much more team-based approach. There's the saying that there is no end to what one can achieve if one doesn't have to take the credit for what was achieved.

  

  Melanne Verveer
  • Saying
  • Recognize
  • Achieved

• The poet, like the lover, is a person unable to reconcile what he knows with what he feels. His peculiarity is that he is under a certain compulsion to do so.

  

  Babette Deutsch
  • Certain
  • Poet
  • Lovers

• Unite for the public safety, if you would remain an independent nation.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • Safety
  • Unite
  • Independent Nation

• Obama's rhetorical overtures to democracy, it turned out, were just a decoy to conceal his unwavering determination to govern from the far left.

  

  Sean Hannity
  • Democracy
  • Determination
  • Rhetorical

• The whole idea of equal justice under law is completely incompatible with the idea of judges deciding cases according to "empathy".

  

  Thomas Sowell
  • Justice
  • Ideas
  • Empathy

• When you put things together, things that other people have thrown out, you’re really bringing them to life – a spiritual life that surpasses the life for which they were originally created.

  

  Louise Berliawsky Nevelson
  • People
  • Together
  • Spiritual

• We waste our lights in vain, like lamps by day.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Light
  • Waste
  • Vain

• I'm a big fan of the American Tapes label. But that's very hard to keep a grip on that because you blink your eyes and they've released three records, all of which are limited edition, all sold at one show. So you have to follow in drips and drops on eBay, which I do.

  

  Henry Rollins Black Flag
  • Eye
  • Fans
  • Bigs

• Nowadays people talk about PayPal's founders as prescient geniuses who would inevitably change the world. It was, however, not so obvious that PayPal would taste its first major success by helping people sell Beanie Babies on eBay. But they had a vision, a hope, and the perseverance to try multiple iterations until they got it right.

  

  Eric Ries
  • Hope
  • Founders
  • Geniuses

• Will no man ever do something without a why, just like that, for the hell of it?

  

  Anthony Quinn
  • Men
  • Why
  • Decision

• I spend far too much time on eBay buying lamps and upholstery remnants.

  

  Heidi Julavits
  • Lamps
  • EBay
  • Remnants