Michiko Kakutani Quotes

As a piece of writing, The Elementary Particles feels like a bad, self-conscious pastiche of Camus, Foucault and Bret Easton Ellis. And as a philosophical tract, it evinces a fiercely nihilistic, anti-humanistic vision built upon gross generalizations and ridiculously phony logic. It is a deeply repugnant read.

Michiko Kakutani

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• A plan is always successful if the plan is good.

  

  Zig Ziglar
  • Good
  • Successful
  • Plan

• I started off singing in church as a child. The sound of voices coming together, that was my first moment of touching something outside of myself.

  

  Florence Welch Florence and the Machine
  • Together
  • Church
  • Myself

• A true heiress is never mean to anyone - except a girl who steals your boyfriend.

  

  Paris Hilton
  • True
  • Girl
  • Mean

• If you have a sense of style and purpose and will you don't want to compromise.

  

  Vidal Sassoon
  • Want
  • Style
  • Purpose

• If I sit down to write a young-adult novel, then I'm going to write either to the punch-pulling expectation of what I can't do, or I'm going to go the other way and think about what can I sneak in to be 'down with the kids' - which would be excruciating.

  

  Patrick Ness
  • Kids
  • Write
  • Down

• I just love dancing.

  

  Usain Bolt
  • Love
  • Just
  • Dancing

• When you're creating a fragrance, you're always thinking about what you want that first smell to be, that first reaction. It's a sensation, like a symphony with all of those layers and notes. I love the way it changes and the way it dries down. The fun thing about scent is that it's unique to everyone; pheromones take on a new scent.

  

  L'Wren Scott
  • Thinking
  • Reaction
  • Fragrance

• Time is the coin of your life. It is the only coin you have, and only you can determine how it will be spent. Be careful lest you let other people spend it for you.

  

  Carl Sandburg
  • People
  • Life
  • Time

• Music, for me, is just about where you're at, and that's always changing.

  

  Yolandi Visser
  • Music
  • Me
  • Always

• Many a man is saved from being a thief by finding everything locked up.

  

  E. W. Howe
  • Up
  • Man
  • Everything

• I like being outside and working with the elements. The elemental aspects of it. The physicality of it.

  

  Maggie Smith
  • Like
  • Working
  • Outside

• The lack of diversity in higher education is a problem we as a country must tackle if we're going to live up to our promise.

  

  Wendy Kopp
  • Up
  • Live
  • Country

• I'm a boxer who believes that the object of the sport is to hit and not get hit.

  

  Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
  • Hit
  • Object
  • Boxer

• That day in Moscow, it will all come true, when, for the last time, I take my leave, And hasten to the heights that I have longed for, Leaving my shadow still to be with you.

  

  Anna Akhmatova
  • Time
  • True
  • Leaving

• Festive cocktails mean color, lots of color.

  

  Danny Meyer
  • Color

• The character of Johnny Drama was a lot of fun to play.

  

  Kevin Dillon
  • Character
  • Fun
  • Drama

• I personally pay, through the majority of my stock and through cash, college tuitions of our full-time employees' kids. Life-changing events are generally covered by Boxed as well.

  

  Chieh Huang
  • Life
  • Time
  • Kids

• I had learned classical guitar when I was a kid, and I embraced it, and apparently I got good at it.

  

  Andy Rourke Pretenders
  • Good

• I remember when the Atkins diet arrived; I lost 16 lb in the first month, but when I stopped, it all went back on again.

  

  Bonnie Tyler
  • Remember
  • Lost

• You're always concerned for your character. You should be.

  

  James Callis
  • Character

• America is not only big and rich, it is mysterious; and its capacity for the humorous or ironical concealment of its interests matches that of the legendary inscrutable Chinese.

  

  David Riesman
  • America
  • Chinese
  • Mysterious

• You have to constantly arrange yourself around them, and that can take up a lot of energy. I mean, you don't go, "Why don't you cook dinner tonight, dear, for a change, instead of writing a great song?" I loved what [Paul Simon] did with words. But I wanted to do some more of that, too.

  

  Carrie Fisher
  • Writing
  • Song
  • Mean

• When you see a small change in your life it means its a huge change in personality and your trait.

  

  Natasha Friend
  • Life
  • Change
  • Trait

• As a piece of writing, The Elementary Particles feels like a bad, self-conscious pastiche of Camus, Foucault and Bret Easton Ellis. And as a philosophical tract, it evinces a fiercely nihilistic, anti-humanistic vision built upon gross generalizations and ridiculously phony logic. It is a deeply repugnant read.

  

  Michiko Kakutani
  • Writing
  • Vision
  • Logic