Gabriel Josipovici Quotes
We are in the interstices. In the intervals. We are that which moves between the spaces. Which conjures up the spaces.
Quotes to Explore
-
I'm very, very blessed.
-
Solar power is going to be absolutely essential to meeting growing energy demands while staving off climate change.
-
People in general are used to seeing me as the naughty girl because that's what they've always cast me as.
-
I did say that I wanted to be a young mom, just because my mom was a young mom. It is better because I can be closer to my kids and stuff.
-
The lessons of September 11 are that if we allow law enforcement to do their work free of political interference, if we give them adequate resources and modern technologies, we can protect our citizens without intruding on our liberties.
-
In the past, whistleblowers have had their desks moved to break rooms, broom closets, and basements. It's a clever punishment, good-government activists say, that exploits a gray area in the law. The whole thing can look minor on paper. They moved your office. So what?
-
We all know that I love writing Gambit.
-
Really, anyone can learn how to fly. If you can drive a bus, you can fly an airplane.
-
I like people who are passionate, who have persevered, and who are clearly humble and not arrogant.
-
I remember when I first went to the Baltimore Museum of Art and I bought this little Moreau print in the gift shop. I took it home, and I was, like, 12 years old or something.
-
There are some things I keep sacred. My middle name. Who I sleep with. And what kind of hand moisturizer I use.
-
A lot of great authors are published before their time. That's not wrong; it's just the way it works.
-
I work for two years on a book and it comes out and two days later I've got my first e-mail: When is the next one coming out?
-
A government of fighters won't know how to lead, only create more war. You think bravery is measured in resistance.
-
We've got a lot more Polynesians playing rugby in Australia and now these young guys have come through our development system and are making their way into the national team.
-
Today, as we wish each other a Happy New Year, let us determine to be more sincere, compassionate, warm-hearted human beings, trying to make our world a more equal place. That way we'll actually make it a happy year.
-
The power to rethink a situation is our greatest tool for transforming the world. This notion is taking hold in medicine, in business, in education. But not in politics and the media. They are the last holdouts of old-paradigm thinking.
-
When you grow up, you tend to get told that the world is the way it is, and your life is just to live your life inside the world. Try not to bash into the walls too much. Try to have a nice family life. Have fun, save a little money. That's a very limited life. Life can be much broader, once you discover one simple fact, and that is everything around that you call life was made up by people who were no smarter than you. And you can change it. You can influence it. You can build your own things that other people can use. Once you learn that, you'll never be the same again.
-
Everything is generated through your own will power.
-
I love rap because it talks about pain that comes authentically from the ghetto. It moves me.
-
The tree which moves some to tears of joy is in the eyes of others only a green thing that stands in the way. Some see nature all ridicule and deformity... and some scarce see nature at all. But to the eyes of the man of imagination, nature is imagination itself.
-
Cruelty must be whitewashed by a moral excuse, and pretense of reluctance.
-
We are in the interstices. In the intervals. We are that which moves between the spaces. Which conjures up the spaces.
