Scarlett Thomas Quotes

Everything I know I imagine everyone else knows as well. And then everything that everyone else knows I imagine they know on top of what I know, so I'm constantly anxious about what everyone else knows.

Scarlett Thomas

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• I can't imagine working without and audience.

  

  Bea Arthur
  • Working
  • Imagine
  • Without

• When I was a little kid, I loved imagining things. I'd go outside and put on a cape and just imagine I was somebody else.

  

  Haley Joel Osment
  • Imagine
  • Loved
  • Kid

• In some countries, no one knows who Idris Elba is.

  

  Idris Elba
  • Knows
  • Countries
  • Some

• He to whom the present is the only thing that is present, knows nothing of the age in which he lives.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Age
  • Present
  • Knows

• The man who is a pessimist before 48 knows too much; if he is an optimist after it, he knows too little.

  

  Mark Twain
  • Man
  • Knows
  • Optimist

• You know, I've been playing with my hair color ever since I was nine.

  

  Cyndi Lauper Blue Angel
  • Hair
  • Color
  • Knows

• I don't know karate, but I know ka-razy!

  

  James Brown
  • Knows
  • Karate

• I imagine myself as the broadcaster for a Cubs-White Sox World Series, a Series that would last seven games, with the final game going extra innings before being suspended because of darkness at Wrigley Field.

  

  Jack Brickhouse
  • World
  • Game
  • Imagine

• I pretty much know what I'm doing.

  

  Garry Winogrand
  • Pretty
  • Knows

• The best criticism is the sort that tells you what you already know but had been reluctant to accuse yourself of.

  

  J. D. McClatchy
  • Knows
  • Criticism
  • Reluctant

• I don't play well enough to be allowed to throw my clubs.

  

  Lou Holtz
  • Play
  • Enough
  • Wells

• Vaisey said, "Is it because your parents don't understand you?" Charlie said, "No, it's because our parents understand us very well, and that is why they wanted us to go away.

  

  Louise Rennison
  • Why
  • Parents
  • Said

• The fly in her argument is that when she says, 'they' will feel like lemons, we don't know who 'they' are. And 'they' might BE lemons.

  

  Louise Rennison
  • She
  • Feels
  • Knows

• Well, subconsciously I suppose some things must stick but I'm not influenced consciously by them.

  

  Ian Curtis Joy Division
  • Wells
  • Sticks

• When Gerard took over, he was trying to get us back on track, but he was also trying to ease our pain. Now, it's a fresh start for everyone and it's time for us to make a move. He knows that and he's not letting anything slide.

  

  Luke Richardson
  • Time
  • Trying
  • Pain

• The best way to enjoy your job is to imagine yourself without one.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Job
  • Best
  • Enjoy

• Well, you're expelling us aren't you?" said Ron. "Not today, Mr. Weasley." Snape looked as though Christmas had been canceled.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • Today
  • Said
  • Christmas

• I do feel that, generally, people will see me and go, "He knows where the good food is," which is an awesome correlative. It's an awesome simplification.

  

  Adam Richman
  • People
  • Good
  • Food

• You can't sweeten the well by painting the pump.

  

  Adrian Rogers
  • Painting
  • Wells
  • Pumps

• Well, do you know what I hope for, once I allow myself to begin to hope? [...] That you find in your love for people something not only to work for, but to comfort and restore you when there is a need.

  

  Vincent Van Gogh
  • People
  • Needs
  • Wells

• In my life there were a lot of situations where I could have been killed or some officer might have been killed chasing me, a lot of things could be different. Now, you know that's experience you can't buy. And it's there in my rearview mirror and I can refer to it in my writing. I have the experience to talk about things some people only imagine.

  

  Merle Haggard
  • People
  • Different
  • Writing

• We ask the leaf, "Are you complete in yourself?" And the leaf answers, "No, my life is in the branches." We ask the branch, and the branch answers, "No my life is in the root." We ask the root, and it answers, "No my life is in the trunk and the branches and the leaves. Keep the branches stripped of leaves, and I shall die," So it is with the great tree of being. Nothing is completely and merely individual.

  

  Harry Emerson Fosdick
  • Answers
  • Branches
  • Leaf

• Everything I know I imagine everyone else knows as well. And then everything that everyone else knows I imagine they know on top of what I know, so I'm constantly anxious about what everyone else knows.

  

  Scarlett Thomas
  • Knows
  • Imagine
  • Wells