Isak Dinesen Quotes

I think all sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story or tell a story about them.

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• My mom is from Cuba, my dad is from Spain, and I grew up in Miami. So there's maybe a little more flair in me than typical Silicon Valley types.

  

  Eddy Cue
  • Me
  • Dad
  • Mom

• When I started out, there was so much work that I couldn't think of doing anything else. I would go for recordings by 8.30 A.M., that, too, in trains. I used to come home at night. I was travelling alone everywhere.

  

  Lata Mangeshkar
  • Work
  • Home
  • Night

• One thing that we decided very early in the relationship is that when he goes, we all go - the whole family.

  

  Camila Alves
  • Family
  • Relationship
  • Early

• I like to look at 'A Place in the Sun' every now and get inspired by it.

  

  Randa Haines
  • Sun
  • Inspired
  • Look

• I've come to the conclusion that the average person can do about four things a day, like four real things a day.

  

  Questlove
  • Real
  • Day
  • Person

• I so never went through a bad-girl period.

  

  Maggie Siff
  • Bad
  • Girl
  • Never

• To have real knowledge, one must understand the essence of things and not only their manifestations.

  

  Daniel Barenboim
  • Real
  • Knowledge
  • Understand

• How much does it really matter whether your child will soon be enjoying a first year at Harvard or Yale or will instead end up at her third or fourth or fifth choice? Probably much less than you think.

  

  Barry Schwartz
  • Up
  • Child
  • End

• Our intent of how we're going to play doesn't change.

  

  Dan Quinn
  • Change
  • Play
  • Intent

• But however measurable, there is much more life in music than mathematics or logic ever dreamed of.

  

  Gabriel Marcel
  • Life
  • Music
  • Logic

• When I grew up, I thought I was Jewish. Now I don't consider myself Jewish. I consider myself a Kabbalist.

  

  Yehuda Berg
  • Up
  • Myself
  • Thought

• Writing a novel is one of those modern rites of passage, I think, that lead us from an innocent world of contentment, drunkenness, and good humor, to a state of chronic edginess and the perpetual scanning of bank statements.

  

  J. G. Ballard
  • World
  • Good
  • Writing

• Fear of a name increases fear of the thing itself.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • Fear
  • Name
  • Increases

• Every time I sit for a song, I feel I am finished. It's like a beggar sitting waiting for God to fill your bowl with the right thought. In every song, I ask help from Him. Everybody around is so good, so to create music that will connect with so many people is not humanly possible without inspiration.

  

  A. R. Rahman
  • Music
  • God
  • Help

• I've never been one to bet on the weather.

  

  J. Paul Getty
  • Never
  • Weather
  • Bet

• Love, whether newly born, or aroused from a deathlike slumber, must always create sunshine, filling the heart so full of radiance, this it overflows upon the outward world.

  

  Nathaniel Hawthorne
  • World
  • Love
  • For Her

• Do not be afraid to make decisions, do not be afraid to make mistakes.

  

  Carly Fiorina
  • Mistakes
  • Afraid
  • Decisions

• I can't stand on a podium and beat my chest saying I'm the best. I just think I've been the luckiest of all. Yes, I'm talented. The movies that I've chosen and the way they've fared have also helped. I've always done films I would love to watch. I have stayed away from films which I thought were depressing.

  

  Kajol
  • Way
  • Best
  • Talented

• Life is beautiful in all it's colors, even the darker ones, they're here for a reason.

  

  Chris Martin Coldplay
  • Life
  • Beautiful
  • Reason

• The free man cannot be long an ignorant man.

  

  William McKinley
  • Men
  • Long
  • Ignorant

• It's necessary to track characters all the way through an opera. If you're dealing with more than one or two characters, it's very easy to forget that the others have lives of their own that feed into the story.

  

  Carlisle Floyd
  • Story
  • Forget
  • Easy

• There's a story... a legend, about a bird that sings just once in its life. From the moment it leaves its nest, it searches for a thorn tree... and never rests until it's found one. And then it sings... more sweetly than any other creature on the face of the earth. And singing, it impales itself on the longest, sharpest thorn. But, as it dies, it rises above its own agony, to outsing the lark and the nightingale. The thorn bird pays its life for just one song, but the whole world stills to listen, and God in his heaven smiles.

  

  Colleen McCullough
  • Life
  • World
  • God

• I think all sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story or tell a story about them.

  

  Isak Dinesen
  • Story
  • Sorrows
  • Borne