Eve Bunting Quotes

Titles are very hard. Sometimes a title comes before I start to write the book, but often I finish the book and I still don't have a title. I have to go through the book again and then sometimes I hope a title jumps out at me from what I've written.

Eve Bunting

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• I think the next president needs to lead on cultural issues and experience, particularly on foreign policy.

  

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• The reality in which a camera turns up is always posed, e.g., the moon landing.

  

  Hans Magnus Enzensberger
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• Whatever you do, don’t wake up at 65 years old and think about what you should have done with your life.

  

  George Clooney
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• I learned through my body and soul that it was necessary for me to sin, that I needed lust, that I had to strive for property and experience nausea and the depths of despair in order to learn not to resist them, in order to learn to love the world.

  

  Hermann Hesse
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• We're going to be able to ask our computers to monitor things for us, and when certain conditions happen, are triggered, the computers will take certain actions and inform us after the fact.

  

  Steve Jobs
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• The spiritual life is indeed a life of struggle; but it is also a life of well grounded hope. Hope is grounded in freedom, and freedom is grounded in all the high purposes and powers of spirit, human and divine. The last word of spirit is Victory.

  

  Edgar S. Brightman
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• “It does not seem possible to me to conceive anything sadder than a monument composed of a smooth, naked and unadorned surface, of a light absorbent material, absolutely bare of details, and of which the decoration is formed by a composition of shadows, drawn by shadows still darker.”

  

  Aldo Rossi
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• When you run out of hope, everything is backwards. Your heart wants the opposite of what it needs.

  

  Andrew Peterson
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• What intrigues me most about the human voice, is its ability to make all things transparent through its power of transformation. The voice is not just a conduit for words. For me it is like an abstract dream in which everything makes perfect sense.

  

  Azam Ali
  • Voice
  • Sense
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• Educate a man and you educate an individual. Educate a woman and you educate a family.

  

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• Men experience many passions in a lifetime. One passion drives away the one before it.

  

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• Public schools helped create the idea of America and inculcate Americans with a few rudiments of knowledge. To judge by that very American item, the Internet, a few rudiments is all anyone cares to have.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • American
  • America
  • Knowledge

• I won't go to a restaurant to eat with friends, always join them afterwards for coffee. In company I always get over enthusiastic, and this leads to indigestion.

  

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• Hither, thither, masterless Ship upon the sea, Wandering through the ways of air, Go the birds like me. Bound am I by ne’er a bond, Prisoner to no key, Questing go I for my kind, Find depravity.

  

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• Titles are very hard. Sometimes a title comes before I start to write the book, but often I finish the book and I still don't have a title. I have to go through the book again and then sometimes I hope a title jumps out at me from what I've written.

  

  Eve Bunting
  • Title
  • Jumps
  • Write A Book