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 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

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

  

  Yolandi Visser
  • Music
  • Me
  • Always

• 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

• 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

• My grandfather is a blues musician.

  

  Sidney Royel Selby III

• Growing up, my earliest memories are listening to Sinatra Christmas albums.

  

  Brendon Urie Panic! at the Disco
  • Up
  • Growing
  • Listening

• Since I moved to Blackpool, I've met a lot of great people, and if it wasn't for them, I wouldn't be as successful as I was because I'm settled off the pitch.

  

  Charlie Adam
  • People
  • Great

• 'Mad About You' was very fun.

  

  Mel Brooks
  • Fun
  • Mad

• It likes it when you don’t depend on it. It will reward you every time you don’t act needy. It will chase you if you act like other things (passion, friendship, family, longevity) are more important to you. If your career is a bad boyfriend, it is healthy to remember you can always leave and go sleep with somebody else.

  

  Amy Poehler
  • Time
  • Important
  • Family

• Somebody tell the damn players to start playing like old school.

  

  Karl Malone
  • School
  • Start
  • Old

• Acting is what I'd always wanted to do; hosting 'The Soup' was more because of Greg Kinnear.

  

  Joel McHale

• If you're the person living closest to the parent who's going to need help, and you take on the whole role of primary caregiver, you can be pretty sure your sibling who lives farthest away is going to call you and say, 'You don't know what you're doing.' Because they're not on the spot, and they probably feel guilty.

  

  Gail Sheehy
  • Help
  • Pretty
  • Parent

• 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