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 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

• 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

• Where we have good, testable explanations, they then have to be tested, and we drop the ones that fail the tests.

  

  David Deutsch
  • Good

• When you're just focused on nutrition and hunger, that's a harder, harder lift in isolation.

  

  Jeff Fortenberry

• Go out there and swear to this world your oath, not with your words, but with what you do. Not with your hand over your heart, but with your hand outstretched to a world that desperately needs your hand, your help, your insights, your creativity, your honor, your courage. It needs you.

  

  Cory Booker
  • World
  • Heart
  • Help

• When I was a child, I loved 'The Marble Faun' by Nathaniel Hawthorne. The reason I liked it was because it had a beautiful binding. When you're a kid, you like books because they're pretty to look at, and this one had a white calfskin cover and gold edges. That was enough to make me love it.

  

  Edmund White
  • Love
  • Pretty
  • Beautiful

• In elementary school, I loved the 'Bailey School Kids' series. It was about a group of classmates who would speculate whether adults in their lives were supernatural beings. I read literally every single book in the series.

  

  Tyler Oakley
  • School
  • Book
  • Kids

• I'm not going to put my music up on some little corner of the Internet or give it away for free. What does that do? That's just giving up. I'm not giving up, ever.

  

  Ernest Dion Wilson
  • Music
  • Free
  • Internet

• 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