Sigrid Nunez Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
Dress codes and gestures and attitudes have always inspired me, as has youth culture in general, although now I question it more. If you analyze youth cultures over history, there has always been something strict about them - you have to be like this or like that.
-
I may be wrong, but the essential illustrative nature of most documentary photography, and the worship of the object per se, in our best nature photography, is not enough to satisfy the man of today, compounded as he is of Christ, Freud, and Marx.
-
My problem was my inability to spend much time at home. I thought my family was secure, so I went running around everyplace else. I guess I had more of an effect on other people's kids than I did my own.
-
No art is less spontaneous than mine. What I do is the result of reflection and the study of the great masters.
-
If you took ISIS' oil, that would not stop them. It's not their only source of revenue. It would be a setback, but it would not stop them.
-
I'm just going to say I'm not gay. I really, really like women. That's all I can really say about that.
-
At 62, I remain clean and sober and my ponytail remains erect.
-
I think Obama is right when he talks about the rule of law as a cornerstone of what the United States should stand for.
-
I got stuff that's going to hurt for the rest of my life.
-
There is no doubt that Stop-and-Frisk does not yield the desired results, and it is apparent that it disproportionately targets minority communities.
-
Your vision will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.
-
Sometimes people with strong ideology, whether left-wing or right-wing, refuse to do something simply because they believe it is wrong, when doing it actually benefits them. For some people, it's not just about money and political power.
-
A four-hundred-dollar suit on him would look like socks on a rooster.
-
Goodness," Myrnin said quietly. "I don't think I should be watching this. I don't think I'm old enough.
-
My mentality is: I'm going to do it. I'm going to eat a lot of food, and then I'm going to complain about it when I see myself on camera.
-
A man's drive for profit should be prompted by the desire to give charity.
-
Let not our longing slay the appetite of our living.
-
That's the thing, the only "L" I take is a learn. You know what I'm saying, I never lose. That's just my mentality is just like we manifest everything in our lives and we pray and we go get what we just prayed for.
-
I don't decide to represent anything except myself. But that self is full of collective memory.
-
They had a sort of quiet insistence that you keep alive the memory of those who marked the path.
-
Even though your kids will consistently do the exact opposite of what you're telling them to do, you have to keep loving them just as much.
-
No one's memory is infallible, of course - quite the opposite.
