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 love paint. I like watercolours. I like acrylic paint... a little bit. I like house paint. I like oil-based paint, and I love oil paint. I love the smell of turpentine and I like that world of oil paint very, very, very much.

  

  David Lynch The Platters
  • World
  • House

• From a personal standpoint, I'd say that, yeah, seeing how quickly children grow, you realize how fast life goes by.

  

  Mark Romanek
  • Life
  • Children

• I love having beautiful furniture and things, but I don't want my space to look like a showroom.

  

  Brad Goreski
  • Beautiful
  • Space

• I get satisfaction of three kinds. One is creating something, one is being paid for it and one is the feeling that I haven't just been sitting on my ass all afternoon.

  

  William Francis Buckley
  • Work
  • Kind
  • Feelings

• Words are such small things, like confetti in the brain, and yet they are color and clarify everything, they can stain the mind or warp the feelings.

  

  Diane Ackerman
  • Mind
  • Brain
  • Feelings

• 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