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

• Better be," Eve said. She mock-bit at his finger. "I could totally date somebody else, you know." "And I could rent out your room." "And I could put your game console on eBay." "Hey," Shane protested. "Now you're just being mean.

  

  Rachel Caine
  • She
  • Game
  • Console

• Anything that's signed by me on EBay is a forgery and not authentic.

  

  Brett Hull
  • Authentic
  • EBay
  • Signed

• 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

• He who has no light in his heart, what will he gain from the festival of lamps.

  

  Wasif Ali Wasif
  • Heart
  • Light
  • Gains

• I lived most of my life with a Charlie Brown or Murphy’s Law attitude that said, “It’s normal for things to go wrong, so if anything goes right, it must be a mistake.

  

  Charles H. Kraft
  • Mistake
  • Right
  • Wrong

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

  

  Heidi Julavits
  • Lamps
  • EBay
  • Remnants