Russell Banks Quotes

We are the planet, fully as much as water, earth, fire and air are the planet, and if the planet survives, it will only be through heroism. Not occasional heroism, a remarkable instance of it here and there, but constant heroism, systematic heroism, heroism as governing principle.

Russell Banks

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• I created 'The Guild' because nobody was offering me the roles I thought I could do best at in Hollywood.

  

  Felicia Day
  • Me
  • Best
  • Thought

• It is often easier to become outraged by injustice half a world away than by oppression and discrimination half a block from home.

  

  Carl T. Rowan
  • World
  • Home
  • Injustice

• Michael Jordan and Magic and myself all learned how to play the game in college programs that emphasized the team.

  

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
  • Game
  • Team
  • College

• Everyone agrees to that; but when we come to define truth, dissension starts.

  

  Samuel E. Morison
  • Truth
  • Everyone
  • Define

• There's something extremely bizarre about the way people consume media now.

  

  Gaby Hoffmann
  • People
  • Media
  • Now

• Beware how you take away hope from another human being.

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
  • Hope
  • You
  • Human

• I never said I wanted to be a lead actress; I never said I wanted to be a film actress. This need to trump everyone bewilders me. I'm only 25. I'm not better than anyone. I just want to watch other people and learn to be good.

  

  Carey Mulligan
  • People
  • Good
  • Learn

• What's hardest for me to swallow is when there is a love story, say, with a really high-profile male star and there's no reason I can't play the part. They say, 'Oh, we love Halle, we just don't want to go black with this part.'

  

  Halle Berry
  • Reason
  • Star
  • Story

• If you realize too acutely how valuable time is, you are too paralyzed to do anything.

  

  Katharine Butler Hathaway
  • Time
  • You
  • Realize

• I want people to be able to give their voice.

  

  Sam Graves
  • People
  • Want
  • Voice

• I do think grand gestures are a hit and miss, especially for girls.

  

  Carly Rae Jepsen
  • Think
  • Hit
  • Gestures

• I always had a curiosity about Texas. I had a curiosity about small-town life, although, granted, Odessa's not a tiny town.

  

  H. G. Bissinger
  • Life
  • Small
  • Curiosity

• I think sometimes writers can get themselves into trouble trying to exert a totally controlled and super-knowing tone. This kind of knowingness is not the most promising tone to be sustained throughout a novel, to have a young woman who understands everybody and is always reading a room perfectly.

  

  Rachel Kushner
  • Trying
  • Reading
  • Woman

• It is our experience that political leaders do not always mean the opposite of what they say.

  

  Abba Eban
  • Experience
  • Political
  • Always

• As neither reason requires nor religion permits the contrary, every man living in or out of a state of civil society has a right peaceably and quietly to worship God according to the dictates of his conscience.

  

  Samuel Adams
  • God
  • Society

• I've tried several varieties of sex, all of which I hate. The conventional position makes me claustrophobic; the others give me a stiff neck and/or lockjaw.

  

  Tallulah Bankhead
  • Hate
  • Sex

• Relax for a moment my Jerry Come out of your dark monastery While Venus is beaming above. Darling, let's talk about love.

  

  Cole Porter
  • Dark
  • Relax

• I have fun just about everywhere I go.

  

  Mavis Staples
  • Fun

• To recognize that head injuries were as essential a part of football as they are of boxing would be to erase the fine distinction on which the game's respectability rested.

  

  Charlie Pierce
  • Game
  • Football
  • Boxing

• I am not a labor hater.

  

  Eddie Rickenbacker
  • Labor
  • Hater

• All these other creatures have an equal right to exist here. We have no prior rights to the Earth than anybody else, and if they're here, let's give them a chance to survive.

  

  Prince Philip
  • Earth

• The soul is a fire that darts its rays through all the senses; it is in this fire that existence consists; all the observations and all the efforts of philosophers ought to turn towards this ME, the centre and moving power of our sentiments and our ideas.

  

  Madame de Stael
  • Power
  • Soul
  • Moving

• I have had bullets flying at concerts, but I don't want to talk about that.

  

  Zubin Mehta
  • Want
  • Flying
  • Talk

• We are the planet, fully as much as water, earth, fire and air are the planet, and if the planet survives, it will only be through heroism. Not occasional heroism, a remarkable instance of it here and there, but constant heroism, systematic heroism, heroism as governing principle.

  

  Russell Banks
  • Earth
  • Water
  • Air