Russell Banks Quotes

One of the most difficult things to say to another person is, 'I hope that you will love me for no good reason.' But it is what we all want and rarely dare to say to one another, to our children, to our parents and mates, to our friends, and to strangers, especially to strangers who have neither good, nor bad reasons to love us.

Russell Banks

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• Remember when Jay-Z wore a Che Guevara T-shirt? Nobody knew who Che was. Then Jay-Z wears it, and it's everywhere.

  

  Lamar Odom
  • Remember
  • Nobody
  • T-shirt

• There are times, especially when I was just getting into PC gaming, where I spent way less time playing than obsessing about the quality of the play.

  

  Palmer Luckey
  • Time
  • Quality
  • Gaming

• Usually, it's the guys who want to get better so they can get more playing time who are always in the gym.

  

  J. R. Smith
  • Time
  • Want
  • Better

• There is simply no room for racial, hurtful language spoken to your colleagues or anyone else.

  

  Pam Bondi
  • Language
  • Colleagues
  • Racial

• I think the art world heightens the intensity of desires for inclusion, and the humiliations of exclusion, which is why it's a great place to circulate when you are in the lucky position, as I am, of not wanting or needing anything from anyone.

  

  Rachel Kushner
  • World
  • Great
  • Why

• The Indian story has never been written. Maybe I am the man to do it.

  

  Zane Grey
  • Story
  • Indian

• It was so strange. I knew that Josephine Baker had performed on the same stage but that night I felt it. Many of the same people who worked with Josephine Baker are still here. They know what they're doing. And that was a very comfortable feeling.

  

  LaToya Jackson
  • People
  • Night
  • Feeling

• Cursing is highly effective in person - someone kicks his car in rage, forgetting he's wearing flip-flops, flames pour from his mouth, and it's impressive. But you see it in print, and it's just ugly.

  

  Garrison Keillor
  • Car
  • See
  • Ugly

• What's done to children, they will do to society.

  

  Karl A. Menninger
  • Children
  • Done
  • Society

• I like being outside and working with the elements. The elemental aspects of it. The physicality of it.

  

  Maggie Smith
  • Like
  • Working
  • Outside

• NATO's brutal military alliance has become the most perfidious instrument of repression known in the history of humankind.

  

  Fidel Castro
  • History
  • Military
  • Alliance

• Do you know most of the Jewish songs have the same trend of sadness as Negro spirituals?

  

  Mahalia Jackson
  • Know
  • Same
  • Sadness

• I try to get that across in the work, to try to, if I'm lucky, to make this world a little bit better for all of us before I check out. And that's if I'm lucky, I don't always get to have that privilege but I try always.

  

  Mandy Patinkin
  • World
  • Work
  • Better

• People in Toronto love to watch fights.

  

  Daniel Cormier
  • People
  • Watch
  • Fights

• Reader, you may ask this question; in fact, you must ask this question: Is it ridiculous for a very small, sickly, big-eared mouse to fall in love with a beautiful human princess named Pea? The answer is... yes. Of course, it's ridiculous. Love is ridiculous.

  

  Kate DiCamillo
  • May
  • Beautiful
  • Small

• Our aim may be as high as the endless sky, but we should have a resolve in our minds to walk ahead, hand-in-hand for victory will be ours.

  

  Atal Bihari Vajpayee
  • May
  • High
  • Hand

• Está atado a ellos y no comprendes cómo, porque ellos no están atados a ti.

  

  Antonio Porchia

• There's no greatest moment in the arts. It's a life, it's a continuity thing. You can't have a great moment because it's spiritual. It's a belief, it's a calling. If you're an artist, doing your own thing on your own, it's while you're doing it that counts. It's a process. If you get too elated, you can get too depressed.

  

  LeRoy Neiman
  • Life
  • Great
  • Spiritual

• Next time you have a bad day, remember that it is amazing that you are alive at all, much less a member of a self-aware species living at the height of human technological progress.

  

  Hank Green
  • Human technological progress
  • Self-aware species

• I guess rumors are more exciting than the truth.

  

  Venus Williams
  • Truth
  • More
  • Rumors

• I don't know if I will be acting all my life, honestly.

  

  Marion Cotillard
  • Life

• Use the losses and failures of the past as a reason for action, not inaction.

  

  Charles J. Givens
  • Past
  • Action

• To try and to pretend that there's no difference between where we come from is so dumb.

  

  Allison Williams
  • Dumb

• One of the most difficult things to say to another person is, 'I hope that you will love me for no good reason.' But it is what we all want and rarely dare to say to one another, to our children, to our parents and mates, to our friends, and to strangers, especially to strangers who have neither good, nor bad reasons to love us.

  

  Russell Banks
  • Children
  • Reason
  • Difficult