Sigrid Nunez Quotes
You write about experiences partly to understand what they mean, partly not to lose them to time. To oblivion. But there's always the danger of the opposite happening. Losing the memory of the experience itself to the memory of writing about it.
Sigrid Nunez
Quotes to Explore
I don't know what it is about me. I don't know if there's something strange... but I continue to play aliens, so there's obviously something there.
Laura Vandervoort
Your outlook upon life, your estimate of yourself, your estimate of your value are largely colored by your environment. Your whole career will be modified, shaped, molded by your surroundings, by the character of the people with whom you come in contact every day.
Orison Swett Marden
Who cares about the clouds when we're together? Just sing a song and bring the sunny weather.
Dale Evans
It's funny: when I set out to create the world of 'California,' I didn't give the type of apocalypse much thought... I simply set my two characters, Cal and Frida, in a depleted world and moved through it intuitively.
Edan Lepucki
As athletes, we all have egos, we all think we can help, and when you're not given that chance, it's hard to watch.
Landon Donovan
You should not do an autobiography if you want to tell the truth. There are a lot of things I know about people. If I can't say something good about a person, I don't want to say anything. And since I don't want to say anything bad, I won't write a book.
Abraham A. Ribicoff
I often use the word 'magical' to talk about what it feels like on set.
Gaby Hoffmann
When the script for 'Once' came my way, I had the thought that maybe it will last only a season. But I was willing to take that risk.
Lana Parrilla
To see the gods dispelled in mid-air and dissolve like clouds is one of the great human experiences. It is not as if they had gone over the horizon to disappear for a time; nor as if they had been overcome by other gods of greater power and profounder knowledge. It is simply that they came to nothing.
Wallace Stevens
There are many sides of the urban life that I dislike, but there are many sides I am deeply in love with and attached to.
Jenova Chen
Part of the scientific temperament is this tolerance for holding multiple hypotheses in mind at the same time.
David Eagleman
I plan to see St. Louis as a global competitor. As an international trade hub, as an incubator of new companies, as a place of culture and the arts, as a magnet for immigrants, for entrepreneurs, for animal lovers, and for gays, as a city of parks and trails, and as the sort of place that figures in young people's dreams.
Francis G. Slay
