Nicole Krauss Quotes
To me, this is the singular privilege of reading literature: we are allowed to step into another's life.
Nicole Krauss
Quotes to Explore
-
That's the reality of my life - I do normal things and then get to go to film festivals and wear borrowed clothes and turn up at premieres and talk about things I am passionate about. But then you click back to normality and your family and friends.
Eddie Redmayne
-
I was slicking my hair back when I was in sixth grade.
G-Eazy
-
Every single unfortunate thing that happens, including, for instance, the murder of my parents, I am responsible for. I am responsible for being the son of two people who got murdered. I didn't cause their murder. But if I'm suffering because of it, it's my karma that I have manifested in this lifetime in this particular set of circumstances.
Patrick Duffy
-
When people think about reparations, they immediately think about people who've been dead for 100 years.
Ta-Nehisi Coates
-
No one ever bugged Jack Nicholson. When we made 'Witches,' and people were standing around to see him, he'd just come out and say, 'Hi everybody!' I was lucky enough to go with him to a Lakers game, too, and he was always friendly. No one bothers Jack, because he makes himself so accessible.
Veronica Cartwright
-
I do think it's important for young women to know that magazine covers are retouched. People don't really look like that.
Kate Winslet
-
I'm not allowed to get a big head, I've still got to do the simple things in life.
Queen Latifah
-
Alike all ages. Dames of ancient daysHave led their children through the mirthful maze,And the gay grandsire, skill'd in gestic lore,Has frisk'd beneath the burden of threescore.
Oliver Goldsmith
-
Unendowed with wealth or pity, Little birds with scarlet legs Sitting on their speckled eggs, Eye each flu-infected city. Altogether elsewhere, vast Herds of reindeer move across Miles and miles of golden moss, Silently and very fast.
W. H. Auden
-
Much of good science - and perhaps all of great science - has its roots in fantasy.
E. O. Wilson
-
It seems to me that, in every culture, I come across a chapter headed Wisdom. And then I know exactly what is going to follow: Vanity of vanities, all is vanity.
Ludwig Wittgenstein
-
They all have excellent resumes... So what I’m trying to find out is how they will behave under pressure. Will they lie, or bluff, or panic, or wilt? Or will they continue to function with some modicum of competence and integrity?
Hyman G. Rickover
