Walter Benjamin Quotes
The good tidings which the historian of the past brings with throbbing heart may be lost in a void the very moment he opens his mouth.
Quotes to Explore
-
I try very hard to handle things equally: ideas, materials, and images.
-
When you love someone so much that you are in pain when you are apart it ends up being destructive. I never want to be in that place again.
-
It's great when a director like Cameron Crowe can take what you do and fit it into what he's doing. If someone's a fan of you already, they can take what you do and make it work for what they're doing. You don't know their vision, and you're thinking, 'How is this guy going to take what I do and make it work in this movie?'
-
The tragedy of all of this is that it happened to me and it shouldn't have happened. It ruined my life and my career. That's the tragedy of this.
-
I'm Cuban, so I know a lot of people who act like vampires. But wait, vampires have to be invited to your house, so maybe they are nothing like Latinos!
-
Women are not all single-issue voters.
-
I've always thought of fat as just a descriptive word.
-
My sister married an American and took his name, and my brother has shortened Sayrafiezadeh to Sayraf. So now he's Jacob Sayraf, or sometimes Jake Sayraf. He made the change when he was a teenager, prior to the Iranian revolution and the hostage crisis. So I don't think it was motivated by any anti-Iranian sentiment in the United States.
-
A creator needs only one enthusiast to justify him.
-
I have been the victim of heartless malice.
-
There is nothing I'm any more passionate than empowering the next generation.
-
As the bill requires, any terror alert system must give people and organizations some indication about what steps they must take to improve their own security and assist in the Nation's security.
-
You have succeeded in life when all you really want is only what you really need.
-
I think, as far as branching out with acting, it would take something really right on the mark to distract me from music, because music is everything to me.
-
I feel like, growing up, I watched football, obviously, and you see great players, and as a fan, you want to watch the best you can possibly watch, and you want to see what's capable of being made.
-
With Spotify, people don't get it until they try it. Then they tell their friends.
-
We can no longer tolerate losing one more innocent child or putting one more firefighter at risk in a fire that could have been prevented at the cost of pennies by making a couple simple changes to the construction of a cigarette.
-
Cherish your visions and your dreams as they are the children of your soul, the blueprints of your ultimate achievements.
-
Since, in the best Southern tradition, I was named Edmund Valentine White III, sometimes when people look up my books on Amazon they find 'Chocolate Drops from the South' by my grandfather.
-
I'm not surprised, motherfuckers.
-
I've learned how to adapt to different cultures and understand all different walks of life. I've also learned that confidence is key, even if you have to fake it at times. Fake it till you make it, as they say.
-
Nowadays three witty turns of phrase and a lie make a writer.
-
The safest thing to do was get rid of the second breast. I just want to give myself the best chance possible to live.
-
The good tidings which the historian of the past brings with throbbing heart may be lost in a void the very moment he opens his mouth.
