Sarah Kane Quotes

To create something beautiful about despair or out of a feeling of despair is for me the most hopeful life affirming thing a person can do

Sarah Kane

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• I work eight hours a day, but I'm not writing all that time. I'm thinking, editing, looking something up. Thinking is what I do a lot of.

  

  Barbara Taylor Bradford
  • Up
  • Time
  • Work

• There are a lot of good men's magazines. In England, you have 'Arena Homme+' and 'Another Man;' and in France we have 'L'Officiel Hommes.' But all are looking similar.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • Good
  • Men
  • Man

• I have lots of friends and, like me, they're not married. So my kids have lots of godparents - men and women, gay and straight. My loft is always filled with people helping me out with them and loving them.

  

  Edie Falco
  • People
  • Men
  • Women

• I am sure that the party system is right and necessary. There must be some scum.

  

  A. P. Herbert
  • Party
  • Right
  • System

• Happiness is a mysterious concept. It seems to work best as futurity: at that point I will be happy, et cetera. I feel like I experience small pieces of joy day to day.

  

  Rachel Kushner
  • Work
  • Experience
  • Happy

• I joke that we're not dissimilar to a rock band in the '70s.

  

  Isaac Hanson Hanson
  • Band
  • Rock
  • Joke

• Dried porcini add a substantial, deep flavour to otherwise more neutral vegetables. I use them in risottos, mashed roots and winter soups.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Deep
  • Winter
  • Roots

• The thing about Moby Dick is that, at heart, it's a very simple plot - there's only one white whale in the ocean. When you're a boy growing up in a hostile home, you imagine it's unique: it's happening only to you.

  

  Gavin O'Connor
  • Up
  • Heart
  • Home

• Humility is an attribute of every good Hindu.

  

  Kapil Sibal
  • Good
  • Humility
  • Hindu

• I'm trying to have some longevity in this business. If that means not working for a while and just picking the right job, so be it.

  

  Aaron Paul
  • Trying
  • Business
  • Job

• The United States has done more for the war crimes tribunal than any other country in the world. We're turning over all the information we have, including intelligence information.

  

  Warren Christopher
  • World
  • Country
  • Done

• You've been entrusted with a lot of money and a lot of careers, and a lot of people put their faith in me, and every director goes through that every time.

  

  Taylor Sheridan
  • People
  • Time
  • Money

• I tell jokes, and I have fun, but I tend to worry about everybody and everything throughout the entire world.

  

  T. C. Boyle
  • World
  • Fun
  • Worry

• As centuries of dictators have known, an illiterate crowd is easiest to rule; since the craft of reading cannot be untaught once it has been acquired, the second-best recourse is to limit its scope.

  

  Alberto Manguel
  • Reading

• Philosophies change by the day while God never changes, simply because, being perfect, He does not have to change!

  

  Jimmy Swaggart
  • God
  • Perfect

• If you're walking with your lady on the sidewalk, I still like to see a man walking street-side, to protect the lady from traffic. I grew up with that, and I hate to see something like that get lost. I still like to see that a man opens the door. I like those touches of chivalry that are fast disappearing.

  

  Betty White
  • Up
  • Hate
  • Lost

• In my mind, there's a time and a place for putting your foot down.

  

  Jay Kay Jamiroquai
  • Time
  • Mind

• Tyler Perry's movies can double what they do domestically with the right plan for selling them around the world.

  

  James Lassiter
  • World

• I want Green Arrow to have fun. I don't want him to be a tortured hero. I mean, I've written plenty of tortured heroes, like Daredevil. But it's all there in Daredevil's origin as to why he'd be a tortured adult. Green Arrow doesn't have that kind of origin. In fact, he's such a clean slate that he doesn't even have an origin anymore.

  

  Ann Nocenti
  • Why
  • Fun
  • Hero

• These times are so hard, and they're getting even harder.

  

  Marshall Bruce Mathers III Bad Meets Evil'
  • Hard
  • Times

• Last week, when I went early into my garden, a rose-breasted grosbeak was sitting on the fence. Oh, he was beautiful as a flower. I hardly dared to breathe, I did not stir, and we gazed at each other fully five minutes before he concluded to move.

  

  Celia Thaxter
  • Beautiful
  • Moving
  • Garden

• People in powerful positions come under scrutiny, and sometimes they get in trouble for things that their underlings did.

  

  Anna Holmes
  • Powerful
  • Trouble
  • Positions

• To create something beautiful about despair or out of a feeling of despair is for me the most hopeful life affirming thing a person can do

  

  Sarah Kane
  • Beautiful
  • Feelings
  • Despair