Kanan Makiya Quotes
Not prettiness, mind you, whose nature is trite, but beauty, which sinks to the depths.
Quotes to Explore
-
I made up 'Badlands'; anything I say, goes. I came to realize I was materializing a metaphor for my mental state.
-
The thing that I have to stay away from is sweets. I have a horrible sweet tooth. It's just the worst.
-
Civilization is merely an advance in taste: accepting, all the time, nicer things, and rejecting nasty ones.
-
I think that when we strip people down, most of us want the same things. People just have very different views of how to get there.
-
Her death has had a huge effect on me. It felt like a big hole appeared on my left side - apparently your left side is your mother - which I thought could never be filled. Now I think what you have to do is fill it with yourself because your mother is part of you. I'm easing into that space, using it and being comforted by it.
-
Lauren Goode and I have agreed that the next version of the Mac software - all of them are named after places in California - should be named either Bridgeport or Warwick.
-
I think we respond well when we do something well.
-
A key reason that elections are run so badly is that in most states, political partisans are in charge.
-
All I did was ask for rights. I didn't attack anyone. I didn't harass anyone. I didn't oppose the system or the country or the authority. All I said is, 'Why can't I drive?'
-
It is a mistake to fancy that horror is associated inextricably with darkness, silence, and solitude.
-
I quit high school the first day of 10th grade because I felt like I was wasting time.
-
With realization of one's own potential and self-confidence in one's ability, one can build a better world.
-
As long as you believe in Him, no matter what happens in your life, understand that it's all for a purpose.
-
Dressing for yourself and not a man is definitely something I advocate.
-
I hold this to be the highest task for a bond between two people: that each protects the solitude of the other.
-
What is right, what is wrong, how can anyone say? I view very, very, few things as Right with a capital R.
-
The voice of the intelligence is drowned out by the roar of fear. It is ignored by the voice of desire. It is contradicted by the voice of shame. It is biased by hate and extinguished by anger. Most of all it is silenced by ignorance.
-
I love doing costumes. The costume is an actor's first line, so it's gotta be right!
-
It's much more difficult to work on a broad subject than on a specific one, because even if it's hard to find the information, if you look hard enough for something specific you will find it, and you will discover things that you wouldn't have thought of before.
-
You think silence means something. Sometimes, there's just nothing to say.
-
I don't have many friends, but I want to retain the ones I have.
-
The Blue Brain project expects to have a full human-scale simulation of the cerebral cortex by 2018. I think that's a little optimistic, actually, but I do make the case that by 2029 we will have very detailed models and simulations of all the different brain regions.
-
Today we bury his remains in the earth as a seed of immortality. Our hearts are full of sadness, yet at the same time of joyful hope and profound gratitude.
-
Not prettiness, mind you, whose nature is trite, but beauty, which sinks to the depths.
