Rachel Carson Quotes
If there is poetry in my book about the sea, it is not because I deliberately put it there, but because no one could write truthfully about the sea and leave out the poetry.
Quotes to Explore
-
Immortality is really desirable, I guess. In terms of images, anyway.
-
It is very important to know who you are. To make decisions. To show who you are.
-
Most of Google's home technologies have failed to catch on in a major way.
-
From my point of view, I'm a totally normal person! Really! I have a family. I have kids. I have a house... I don't have a dog.
-
Looking up and out, how can we not respect this ever-vigilant cognizance that distinguishes us: the capability to envision, to dream, and to invent? the ability to ponder ourselves? and be aware of our existence on the outer arm of a spiral galaxy in an immeasurable ocean of stars? Cognizance is our crest.
-
My number one thing is to recycle everything from newspaper to aluminum cans, and I even use a canvas bag instead of the plastic ones when I go to the grocery store.
-
A lasting architecture has to have roots.
-
I go to all these photo shoots, and each time I figure out something new about myself and what I want to wear.
-
Public opinion is a permeating influence, and it exacts obedience to itself; it requires us to drink other men's thoughts, to speak other men's words, to follow other men's habits.
-
I don't trust Santa Barbara as far as I can spit. I am afraid that if I went back there, it's possible that I could be run through their system, their judicial system, and wind up in some county jail where I could be killed and I'm not gonna take that chance.
-
When I was born, my parents - my mother especially - couldn't come to terms with that fact that they had another baby girl. I know these stories in detail because every time a guest visited, or there was a gathering, they repeated this story in front of me that how I was the unwanted child.
-
I used to always buy clothes too big, but I should have showed off instead of covering up.
-
I took a whole stunt course and pretty much got certified as a stunt driver. It's ridiculous how easy it is once you understand the car and know how to do it.
-
I get a lot of people telling me that I'd make a good 'wacky neighbor.' I wouldn't mind that, if it was a starting-off point.
-
If we were handling a bomb which could go off at any minute as a result of our actions, we would mind ourselves and be delicate. Our words have the same power, yet we wield them around as though they were powerless and insignificant.
-
Stock prices have reached what looks like a permanently high plateau.
-
The fear of hell, or aiming to be blest, savors too much of private interest.
-
I wanted to keep exploring... I'm not about to choose a series of movies in which I can use the same bag of tricks and style that I used in the first film.
-
None whatsoever.
-
The biggest difference with Twitter and writing long form is you're part of a virtual community where you know people, or think you know them, through their links.
-
I was obsessed with not knowing what happened after you were dead. And I sat or kneeled for a whole day with my head against the wall, trying to figure it out. But I couldn't, and I just said, 'Okay.' And then it was nothingness.
-
No one inspired me to write, but writer Harlan Ellison terrified me into getting published.
-
The funny thing about having all this so-called success is that behind it is a certain horrible emptiness.
-
If there is poetry in my book about the sea, it is not because I deliberately put it there, but because no one could write truthfully about the sea and leave out the poetry.
