Walter Benjamin Quotes
Boredom is the dream bird that hatches the egg of experience. A rustling in the leaves drives him away.Walter Benjamin
Quotes to Explore
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Racism is a physical experience.
Ta-Nehisi Coates -
I really want women to know their power, to value their experience. To understand that nothing has been more wholesome in the political process than the increased involvement of women.
Nancy Pelosi -
When I went to college, I was so focused on this new experience of my life that I really just pushed down all of my fears of hell and damnation.
Maggie Rowe -
Life is like playing a violin solo in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.
Samuel Butler -
The wiser you get, the more experience you have, and the more you see people for who they are as human beings, as opposed to figures you have to fight against.
Vanessa Williams -
One cannot understand what's happening to women in the Middle East if they don't realize that the mothers are a strong, progressive force. The mothers push the daughters to get out of the harem, to get the education, to achieve what they could not even dream of.
Fatema Mernissi
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Sometimes, you're going 24 hours a day, seven days a week for a few months, and then you come home, and you wonder what you're doing with your life and why. At least, that's the experience I've had.
Verite -
There comes a point when a dream becomes reality and reality becomes a dream.
Frances Farmer -
The American Dream is that any man or woman, despite of his or her background, can change their circumstances and rise as high as they are willing to work.
Fabrizio Moreira -
Poetry, I think, intensifies the reader's experience. If it's a humorous facet of the story, poetry makes it more exuberant. If it's a sad facet, poetry can make it more poignant.
Vikram Seth -
But it's the particularity of a place, the physical experience of being in a place, that makes it onto the page. That's why I don't just do library research. I very rarely write about somewhere I haven't been.
Hari Kunzru -
Most of my books begin with a nap on my couch here, when I dream up characters and story lines, and then I write on my laptop in the recliner and handle the business side of email at my desk, which is sagging in the middle - maybe from so many words?
Karin Slaughter
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Being exposed to different production environments in Korea, Japan and the U.S. was a great experience, and each system allows you to quench your thirst in a different way.
Doona Bae -
My favorite Broadway show day-to-day, just for the experience, was 'The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee.' The people were so much fun. It was a great show.
Barrett Foa -
Today's kitchen is all about a well-planned space that makes cooking a completely interactive experience among family and friends.
Candice Olson -
As delicate as 'Guy and Madeline' was, it was important that 'Whiplash' come off as more of a fever dream.
Damien Chazelle -
You must go after your wish. As soon as you start to pursue a dream, your life wakes up and everything has meaning.
Barbara Sher -
There's that stigma about New Yorkers, how they're so mean, but in my experience it was quite the opposite. People were very genuine and very nice, even on the subway.
Taylor Kitsch
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Was Luther crazy? Perhaps. But if he was, our prayer is that God would send to this earth an epidemic of such insanity that we too may taste of the righteousness that is by faith alone.
R. C. Sproul -
People tend to forget that in our country, we'd pretty much all be immigrants, except for the Native Americans.
Amy Bloom -
It was an excess of fantasy that killed the old United States, the whole Mickey Mouse and Marilyn thing, the most brilliant technologies devoted to trivia like instant cameras and space spectaculars that should have stayed in the pages of Science Fiction . . . some of the last Presidents of the U.S.A. seemed to have been recruited straight from Disneyland.
J. G. Ballard -
Only a boring man will always want things to match; real quality lies in irregularity―another excellent remark.
Kenko Yoshida -
If you have a dream, give it a chance to happen.
Richard M. DeVos -
Boredom is the dream bird that hatches the egg of experience. A rustling in the leaves drives him away.
Walter Benjamin