Gabrielle Roth Quotes

The body is the womb of the soul, a begging bowl for spirit.

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• I've never been conscious of having any real career plan, and I do not have a wish-list of actors, directors, screenwriters, or cameramen I'm hoping to work with. Life, I feel, has a way of leading us to the right situations and people, or at least to interesting ones.

  

  Viggo Mortensen
  • People
  • Life
  • Work

• Both chronic, long-term poverty and downward mobility from the middle class are in the same category of things that America likes not to think about.

  

  Barbara Ehrenreich
  • Long
  • America
  • Think

• I'm very privy to the way bookstores work, and I think a lot about the ecosystem that my books have been published in. I think it's great to be aware of how publishing works.

  

  Gabrielle Zevin
  • Work
  • Great
  • Think

• Let me go to hell, that's all I ask, and go on cursing them there, and them look down and hear me, that might take some of the shine off their bliss.

  

  Samuel Beckett
  • Me
  • Hell
  • Shine

• I'm one of those people if you ask, 'What's your favourite song?' I'm going to give you five. I don't have just one favourite.

  

  Octavia Spencer
  • People
  • Song
  • You

• If you want to eat well in England, eat three breakfasts.

  

  W. Somerset Maugham
  • Want
  • Food
  • Three

• There is evidence that some of al Qaeda's nuclear efforts over the years met with swindles and false leads.

  

  Barton Gellman
  • Years
  • Evidence
  • Over

• A key reason that elections are run so badly is that in most states, political partisans are in charge.

  

  Adam Cohen
  • Political
  • Run
  • Key

• When I was first exposed to the films of Ingmar Bergman, I found them frank and disturbing portraits of the world we live in, but that was not something that displeased me. They were beautiful. I thought people would respond to my plays the way I responded to Bergman's films.

  

  Wallace Shawn
  • People
  • World
  • Live

• There is no such source of error as the pursuit of truth.

  

  Samuel Butler
  • Truth
  • Source
  • Pursuit

• I didn't want there to be a computer on stage. When I see people with computers on stage, I think, 'Are you sending e-mail?' That's so corny.

  

  Pat Metheny
  • People
  • Want
  • Computers

• To the extent that you can find ways where you're making predictions, there's no substitute for testing yourself on real-world situations that you don't know the answer to in advance.

  

  Nate Silver
  • World
  • Real
  • Know

• I don't consider myself a competition to anyone. There is ample space for everyone here. When there are directors who create characters for me, why should I feel bothered or insecure? When it comes to updating myself, I work very hard to relate to the emotions of characters I play.

  

  Kajal Aggarwal
  • Work
  • Why
  • Space

• Cuba never had advisors in Vietnam. The military there knew very well how to conduct their war.

  

  Fidel Castro
  • War
  • Military
  • Cuba

• What a waste it is to lose one's mind. Or not to have a mind is being very wasteful. How true that is.

  

  Dan Quayle
  • Mind
  • True
  • Lose

• I try to write life and not songs. People live life, and when you write life, you're going to mess around and touch somebody's heart, and they'll relate to you and what you're singing about.

  

  R. Kelly
  • People
  • Life
  • Live

• I would definitely love to be a parent.

  

  Kate Walsh
  • Love
  • Parent
  • Definitely

• Great men are they who see that spiritual is stronger than any material force - that thoughts rule the world.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • World
  • Great
  • Men

• Harvard is a wondrously tolerant climate for debate and exchange among a wide variety of thoughts, backgrounds, and beliefs, but the voice of religion on campus is largely inaudible.

  

  Alexandra Petri
  • Thoughts

• It is doubtless wise, when a reform is introduced, to try to persuade the British public that it is not a reform at all; but appearances must be kept up to some extent at least.

  

  George Bernard Shaw
  • Reform
  • Extent
  • British Public

• Every sentence I utter must be understood not as an affirmation, but as a question.

  

  Niels Bohr
  • Question
  • Affirmation
  • Sentence

• For the most wild, yet most homely narrative which I am about to pen, I neither expect nor solicit belief. Mad indeed would I be to expect it, in a case where my very senses reject their own evidence. Yet, mad am I not - and very surely do I not dream. But to-morrow I die, and to-day I would unburthen my soul.

  

  Edgar Allan Poe
  • Soul
  • Dream
  • Die

• Time is what we want most, but what we use worst.

  

  William Penn
  • Time
  • Want
  • Use

• The body is the womb of the soul, a begging bowl for spirit.

  

  Gabrielle Roth
  • Soul