Scarlett Thomas Quotes

Real life is physical. Give me books instead. Give me the invisibility of the contents of books, the thoughts, the ideas, the images. Let me become part of a book. . . . an intertextual being: a book cyborg, or, considering that books aren't cybernetic, perhaps a bibliorg.

Scarlett Thomas

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• NATO remains the cornerstone of Atlantic security.

  

  Victor Ponta
  • Security
  • NATO
  • Cornerstone

• I was initially very interested in public policy, but then after my masters at Harvard, I felt that it was important to get a better handle on the economics of it as well. I did my Ph.D. in macroeconomics, and my thesis - 'Why Is It That Some Countries Save And Others Not?' - was on savings.

  

  Dambisa Moyo
  • Important
  • Why
  • Better

• That which prematurely arrives at perfection soon perishes.

  

  Quintilian
  • Perfection
  • Which
  • Soon

• When I was little, I got into a little accident, and it gave me congenital glaucoma in both of my eyes.

  

  Fetty Wap
  • Me
  • Eyes
  • Accident

• Anyway, I tried liking Jimmy Corrigan but I couldn't.

  

  Ted Rall
  • Tried
  • Liking
  • I Tried

• Weapons are an important factor in war, but not the decisive one; it is man and not materials that counts.

  

  Mao Zedong
  • Important
  • War
  • Man

• When I first read 'The River,' I had theories on what it was about, but once we got into rehearsal, I realized it's much simpler: It's about how human beings try to connect. The play holds a mirror up to the audience, and they take from it what's relevant to their lives.

  

  Laura Donnelly
  • Up
  • Audience
  • Mirror

• I'm ready for a different America.

  

  Gary Johnson
  • Different
  • America
  • Ready

• So if I get these actors for 30% of their price by coming in so late with an offer when they know they are not getting another offer then I do it this way.

  

  Uwe Boll
  • Know
  • Price
  • Late

• The weakness in traditional Scottish nationalism lay in its own inability to grasp that identity could not be the only factor in the march to independence.

  

  Tariq Ali
  • Identity
  • Own
  • Weakness

• Our family suffers from a hereditary condition called, generally, mental illness. Specifically, multiple family members in successive generations have suffered from either bipolar disorder or schizophrenia.

  

  Victor LaValle
  • Family
  • Mental Illness

• My mom watches really obscure stuff on IFC. She's a real comedy fan. She knows everything that's going on.

  

  Kate McKinnon
  • Real
  • She
  • Comedy

• All managers are losers, they are the most expendable pieces of furniture on the face of the Earth.

  

  Ted Williams
  • Earth
  • Face
  • Furniture

• I don't think anyone has written a great graphic novel.

  

  Ted Rall
  • Great
  • Think
  • Novel

• My father died when I was only five years old, and that was the moment when I learned a cruel lesson that tomorrow, in fact, might not be another day.

  

  Kara Swisher
  • Father
  • Day
  • Moment

• I'm just not very funny.

  

  Ira Glass
  • Funny
  • Just
  • Very

• Shell has poured billions of dollars into offshore Arctic drilling, but no matter how much it spends, it cannot make the effort anything but a terrifying gamble. And if Shell, the most profitable company on Earth, can't buy its way to safety in Alaska, nobody can.

  

  Frances Beinecke
  • Earth
  • Effort
  • Safety

• Death seems to be a long way off. Is this not shallow thinking? It is worthless and is only a joke within a dream. It will not do to think in such a way and be negligent. Insofar as death is always at one's door, one should make sufficient effort and act quickly.

  

  Yamamoto Tsunetomo
  • Thinking
  • Long
  • Death

• I've been back in New York a year and a half now. Before that I was on the West Coast for five years. There's no comparison between the two. You hear things in New York you don't hear anywhere else. Unless these guys go out. Quite a few make it out to the Coast. Of course, you can't stay in New York for ever. You have to move.

  

  Ben Webster
  • Moving
  • New York

• It's a life of five-card draw, and you know what? When God asked me - I'm fine with the card I got. I'm gonna play this.

  

  Artie Lange
  • Life
  • God
  • Card

• I was only seven but I remember thinking that everything in the world was standing still.

  

  Eva Hart
  • Thinking
  • I Remember

• I always tell people this: to be a savvy politician or a good head of state and to be charitable are not mutually exclusive things.

  

  Natalie Dormer
  • People
  • Good
  • Always

• While 'Precious' isn't a real person, it's someone's story, and it's too many peoples' story.

  

  Gabourey Sidibe
  • Real
  • Story
  • Someone

• Real life is physical. Give me books instead. Give me the invisibility of the contents of books, the thoughts, the ideas, the images. Let me become part of a book. . . . an intertextual being: a book cyborg, or, considering that books aren't cybernetic, perhaps a bibliorg.

  

  Scarlett Thomas
  • Life
  • Real
  • Book