Scarlett Thomas Quotes

Over to my left is the big grey wall in front of the church. Are we the Thoughts of God? a poster asks. No, I realise. It's the reverse.

Scarlett Thomas

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• The eyes of a poet discover in each person a unique and irreplaceable humanity. While arrogant intellect seeks to control and manipulate the world, the poetic spirit bows with reverence before its mysteries.

  

  Daisaku Ikeda
  • World
  • Control
  • Eyes

• I know you can be up one minute and drop the next, so I'm trying to maintain a steady course so I can have some longevity.

  

  Orlando Bloom
  • Up
  • Trying
  • Know

• The first job I ever had was singing in a jazz club when I was like 15 with my friend, and we earned like 70 bucks. We were like, 'Oh my God!'

  

  Zooey Deschanel
  • God
  • Job
  • Friend

• I never thought of myself as a writer about religion until a religion came after me.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Myself
  • Religion
  • Thought

• I've often reflected on this in the past weeks as I've been following the presidential campaign: Very often, I thought it would have been great for both of these guys to sit down and be force-fed a couple of dozen episodes of Star Trek.

  

  Patrick Stewart
  • Great
  • Past
  • Star

• I like me better naked. I don't mean that in a vain way... When you put clothes on, you immediately put a character on. Clothes are adjectives, they are indicators. When you don't have any clothes on, it's just you, raw, and you can't hide.

  

  Padma Lakshmi
  • Character
  • Me
  • Better

• In my career quite a few people have tried to force me out, but so far no one has succeeded.

  

  Ferdinand Piech
  • People
  • Career
  • Me

• I wouldn't just lay my voice on anything. But I'd love to do a collaboration, like a Calvin Harris track, for example.

  

  Gabrielle Aplin
  • Love
  • Voice
  • Collaboration

• It is your work in life that is the ultimate seduction.

  

  Pablo Picasso
  • Life
  • Work
  • Ultimate

• All compromise is based on give and take, but there can be no give and take on fundamentals. Any compromise on mere fundamentals is a surrender. For it is all give and no take.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Give
  • Compromise
  • Surrender

• Madness need not be all breakdown. It may also be break-through. It is potential liberation and renewal as well as enslavement and existential death.

  

  R. D. Laing
  • May
  • Death
  • Potential

• How do you grow up in the shadow of a guy - I want to talk about the movie in a second - but how do you grow up in the shadow of a guy who really is a legend in his own time?

  

  Tavis Smiley
  • Up
  • Time
  • Movie

• Art should never try to be popular. The public should try to make itself artistic.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Art
  • Popular
  • Should

• Four hundred is a lot. When I was young, I remember Kapil Dev getting it, and it was quite a big thing. An Indian had taken it. I feel honoured and proud that God has given me a chance to reach 400 wickets. It's a big thing for me; I don't know about others.

  

  Harbhajan Singh
  • God
  • Remember
  • Proud

• If you feel that you can just come in the studio and freestyle on my song, then I'm ready to rap battle you. That's just how I feel about it because I know I'm way harder than another rapper freestyling on my song.

  

  Young Thug
  • Song
  • Know
  • Rap

• I only started singing the Russian roles when I came west.

  

  Ildar Abdrazakov
  • Singing
  • Only
  • West

• It didn't take long to recognise the shortcomings of the Soviet regime and to see the values of the free world.

  Garry Kasparov
  • World
  • Long
  • Free

• The uplands of my home country in north central Kentucky are sloping and easily eroded, dependent for safekeeping upon year-round cover of perennial plants.

  

  Wendell Berry
  • Country
  • Home
  • Plants

• : No comment, since this is still hovering (see Larry's reply).Flutter, flutter.

  

  Larry Wall

• You know your business model is broken when you're suing your customers.

  

  Paul Graham
  • Business
  • Customer
  • Suing

• If immigration reform is bad for America's workers, then why does virtually every group that represents American workers support it so enthusiastically?

  

  Luis Gutierrez
  • Why
  • American
  • America

• A trust held the property and they were liquidating their property. It sold for a little more than we thought, but I was not surprised, positively or negatively.

  

  Eric Johnson
  • Trust
  • Property
  • Surprised

• 'Now! Dasher, now! Dancer, now! Prancer, and Vixen,'On! Comet, on! Cupid, on! Dunder and Blixem;'To the top of the porch! to the top of the wall!'Now dash away! dash away! dash away all!'

  

  Clement Clarke Moore
  • Wall

• Over to my left is the big grey wall in front of the church. Are we the Thoughts of God? a poster asks. No, I realise. It's the reverse.

  

  Scarlett Thomas
  • Church
  • Wall
  • Realising