Scarlett Thomas Quotes

I pray for meaning. I pray for the limits of reality to become clear. For a world – and a type of being – that makes sense. I pray for a life after death that is not like this life. I pray for the end of mystery. What would a life be like with all the mysteries solved? If there were no questions, there’d be no stories. If there were no stories, there’d be no language. If there was no language there’d be no . . . What?

Scarlett Thomas

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• It's hard to have people talking about you and trashing you in the media and saying they think your career is over... and you are only 25.

  

  Tamra Davis
  • People
  • Career
  • Media

• There is always shame in the creation of an object for the public gaze.

  

  Rachel Cusk
  • Always
  • Creation
  • Shame

• Everyone has an idea that they think would be a great movie. Everyone has a cousin who they think you should work with.

  

  Zach Braff
  • Work
  • Great
  • Movie

• My priority is to take care of my daughter and my family.

  

  Malik Jackson
  • Family
  • Care
  • Daughter

• Our regulatory bodies strive to create honest dealings, fair trades, and a situation in which no one has an advantage over anyone else. But human beings aren't honest. And all trades are made because one person thinks he's getting the better of the other, and the other person thinks the same.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Better
  • Situation
  • Strive

• Blessedness consists in the accomplishment of our desires, and in our having only regular desires.

  

  Saint Augustine
  • Accomplishment
  • Desires

• I am an ardent supporter of capitalism - but I also understand that while individuals have inalienable, God-given rights, corporations do not.

  

  Gary Hamel
  • God
  • Rights
  • Capitalism

• The most influential factor in selling a home is always price. Don't build 'wiggle room' into the asking price. There's a price war out there and you have to win it from the get-go.

  

  Barbara Corcoran
  • Home
  • War
  • Win

• Throughout history, the only way to secure a throne has been with a phalanx of children - nine for Victoria, 13 for George III.

  

  Kate Williams
  • Children
  • History
  • Throne

• The distinctive feature of my family was intolerance of sensitivity and emotion - 'Everything's great, it all has to be great all the time and why do you have to spoil it?' Whereas probably the most fundamental and important thing to me has been defending my right to tell the truth about how I feel.

  

  Rachel Cusk
  • Time
  • Great
  • Important

• Always have something beautiful in sight, even if it's just a daisy in a jelly glass.

  

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
  • Beautiful
  • Always
  • Glass

• I write for myself; I'm trying to keep myself interested in the music. But at the same time, I want to make the songs relatable in a way; I want to keep melodies pretty simple and the lyrics open-ended so that people could maybe relate them to their own life in different ways. Something for everybody to have a piece of.

  

  Mac DeMarco
  • People
  • Life
  • Time

• Remember, when YouTube was founded in the U.S., America's Funniest Home Videos had been around for a long time. In China, the history of TV as well as user-generated video is very, very short. So, we've actually had to do a lot of things to motivate that.

  

  Victor Koo
  • Time
  • Long
  • Home

• If I had one wish for my children, it would be that each of them would reach for goals that have meaning for them as individuals.

  

  Lillian Gordy Carter
  • Children
  • Wish
  • Goals

• People were always asking me who I wanted to tour with, and I always said Jason Aldean or Brad Paisley.

  

  Jana Kramer
  • People

• I think it's unfair, but they have the right as fallible, screwed-up humans to be unfair; that's the human condition.

  

  Albert Ellis
  • Up

• If you have time to get your pet rabbit its own Instagram account, you have time to at least tweet about something important.

  

  Jameela Jamil
  • Time
  • Important
  • Pet

• I've learned that you shouldn't go through life with a catcher's mitt on both hands; you need to be able to throw something back.

  

  Maya Angelou
  • Life
  • Be Able
  • Сatcher's Mitt

• The music teacher came twice a week to bridge the awful gap between Dorothy and Chopin.

  

  George Ade
  • Music
  • Teacher
  • Bridge

• The mystery of government is not how Washington works but how to make it stop.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Stop
  • Government
  • Mystery

• In the midst of observing the world and coming to consciousness, I was becoming a writer, and what I wanted to put on the page were the stories of people who looked like me.

  

  Jacqueline Woodson
  • People
  • World

• When I didn’t have a family, I was much more of a workaholic … I still like to work, but I also want to be home with them. As you get older, you realize you need balance. If it’s not fun, what’s the point?

  

  Ben Stiller
  • Work
  • Family
  • Home

• Hypersegregated inner-city schools - in which one finds no more than five or ten white children, at the very most, within a student population of as many as 3,000 - are the norm, not the exception, in most northern urban areas today.

  

  Jonathan Kozol
  • Children
  • Today
  • City

• I pray for meaning. I pray for the limits of reality to become clear. For a world – and a type of being – that makes sense. I pray for a life after death that is not like this life. I pray for the end of mystery. What would a life be like with all the mysteries solved? If there were no questions, there’d be no stories. If there were no stories, there’d be no language. If there was no language there’d be no . . . What?

  

  Scarlett Thomas
  • World
  • Reality
  • Language