Heidi Julavits Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
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.
-
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.
-
The highest wisdom adopts the humblest of bodies.
-
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.
-
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.
-
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.
-
More computing sins are committed in the name of efficiency (without necessarily achieving it) than for any other single reason - including blind 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.
-
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.
-
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.
-
Unite for the public safety, if you would remain an 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.
-
The whole idea of equal justice under law is completely incompatible with the idea of judges deciding cases according to "empathy".
-
Thou art a retailer of phrases, and dost deal in remnants of remnants.
-
Towards midnight the rain ceased and the clouds drifted away, so that the sky was scattered once more with the incredible lamps of stars.
-
Will no man ever do something without a why, just like that, for the hell of it?
-
Growing up, I thought wearing a suit was a burden.
-
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.
