Etty Hillesum Quotes

Here, beside this great black surface that is my desk, I feel as though I am on a desert island.

Etty Hillesum

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• Thankfully I'm not endlessly ambitious, but I have done some crazy ambitious things like buying an island off the west coast of Scotland in the late Sixties.

  

  Jack Bruce Cream
  • Done
  • Crazy
  • Island

• A desert is a place without expectation.

  

  Nadine Gordimer
  • Place
  • Desert
  • Expectation

• I'm surprised how hot it gets in the Moab Desert. I knew it got hot, but I didn't think it got, like, Mercury-hot.

  

  Adam Ferrara
  • Think
  • Desert
  • Hot

• I've had a love affair with the desert ever since I can remember. No matter what I wrote - contemporary romance, spy thriller, high fantasy - it was going to have a desert in it.

  

  Rae Carson
  • Remember
  • Desert
  • Fantasy

• Style is the substance of the subject called unceasingly to the surface.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Style
  • Surface
  • Substance

• The odd thing about 'Cripple of Inishmaan' is it's never actually been performed on the island.

  

  Garry Hynes
  • Never
  • Odd
  • Island

• A father may turn his back on his child, brothers and sisters may become inveterate enemies, husbands may desert their wives, wives their husbands. But a mother's love endures through all.

  

  Washington Irving
  • Love
  • May
  • Mother

• In the future, I expect to see bitcoin mining in places where electricity is free or cheap. You could put solar array in the Arizona desert attached to bitcoin miners, and instead of trying to ship that electricity all over world, you could ship Bitcoin all over the world.

  

  Gavin Andresen
  • World
  • Trying
  • Future

• I was a young kid from Long Island who wanted to do something large with her life, so I can relate to that.

  

  Edie Falco
  • Life
  • Long
  • Island

• A child raised on a desert island, alone, without social interaction, without language, and thus lacking empathy, is still a sentient being.

  

  Daniel Dennett
  • Alone
  • Child
  • Desert

• The larger the island of knowledge, the longer the shoreline of wonder.

  

  Ralph W. Sockman
  • Knowledge
  • Wonder
  • Island

• Without music, life is a journey through a desert.

  

  Pat Conroy
  • Life
  • Music
  • Journey

• When you live on cash, you understand the limits of the world around which you navigate each day. Credit leads into a desert with invisible boundaries.

  

  Anton Chekhov
  • World
  • Live
  • Desert

• Abraham, a simple farmer, at a word from the Invisible God, marched, with family and stock, through the terrible desert to a distant land to live among a people whose language he could neither speak nor understand! Not bad, that!

  

  Charles Studd
  • People
  • God
  • Live

• My mother's English, and she always was fascinated by the desert.

  

  Arizona Muse
  • She
  • Mother
  • English

• The self-driving car revolution was kicked off by The 'DARPA' Grand Challenge to make an autonomous car traverse 132 mi. of a desert.

  

  Fred Ehrsam
  • Challenge
  • Car
  • Revolution

• The vast sage desert undulates with almost imperceptible tides like the oceans.

  

  Frank Waters
  • Desert

• Nevada has a world-class economy. It will only build a world-class culture with world-class research universities coupled with the Desert Research Institute.

  

  James E. Rogers
  • World
  • Culture
  • Desert

• It's very different to have this kid that I'm truly responsible for.

  

  Laura Lippman
  • Different
  • Kid
  • Responsible

• Quickness and momentum. You take the whole last generation of sports, listening to them, even reading about them, watching the games, analyzing them, arguing about them, instant-replaying them, second-guessing them, and all you'll distill from them is quickness and momentum.

  

  Frank Deford
  • Reading
  • Sports
  • Listening

• I've always tried to keep in mind that I'm in grass-roots country and I'm grass-roots-born and -reared. I don't use the so-called 'sophisticated approach' to broadcasting that is used in other parts of the country.

  

  Jack Brickhouse
  • Country
  • Mind
  • Approach

• One day a long time from now you'll cease to care anymore whom you please or what anybody has to say about you. That's when you'll finally produce the work you're capable of.

  

  J. D. Salinger
  • Time
  • Work
  • Long

• A sense of humour is a sense of proportion.

  

  Kahlil Gibran

• Here, beside this great black surface that is my desk, I feel as though I am on a desert island.

  

  Etty Hillesum
  • Desert
  • Surface
  • Island