Susan Straight Quotes

Real novelists, those we admire, those we consider timeless in their language and character and scene, those who receive accolades for inventive language and form, have writing lives we imagine in specific ways.

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• Consciousness is indeed always with us. Everyone knows 'I am!' No one can deny his own being.

  

  Ramana Maharshi
  • Consciousness
  • Deny

• But however measurable, there is much more life in music than mathematics or logic ever dreamed of.

  

  Gabriel Marcel
  • Life
  • Music
  • Logic

• When you've got children, it's easy to do that thing of keeping a tally of who woke up earliest and whose turn it is to put them to bed. But I think the important thing is to appreciate and love each other and to show that appreciation.

  

  Olivia Colman
  • Important
  • Children
  • Love

• People forget actors can adapt and change their appearance. In this industry, people sometimes cast to type, or as close to type as possible, but actors are a lot more versatile than you think!

  

  Sam Heughan
  • People
  • Think
  • Change

• Being a nice person is about courtesy: you're friendly, polite, agreeable, and accommodating. When people believe they have to be nice in order to give, they fail to set boundaries, rarely say no, and become pushovers, letting others walk all over them.

  

  Adam Grant
  • People
  • Believe
  • Nice

• The fullness of life is in the hazards of life.

  

  Edith Hamilton
  • Life
  • Hazards
  • Fullness

• 'Great Expectations' has become one of my favorite books.

  

  Felicity Jones
  • Great
  • Expectations
  • Become

• I did not think I would be able to do myself justice if I had to speak to the players in English. I would not be able to get my emotions and feelings across.

  

  Ottmar Hitzfeld
  • Myself
  • Justice
  • English

• I floated around in the department of biochemistry and learned some interesting things, and then I began to... I never wanted to work with a mentor because I always wanted to have my own reputation and be free to do what I wanted to do. So I worked with the weakest people in the department. Don't make that public.

  

  Irwin Rose
  • People
  • Work
  • Free

• If we are really serious about preventing another crisis like the 2008 meltdown, we should simply ban complex financial instruments unless they can be unambiguously shown to benefit society in the long run.

  

  Ha-Joon Chang
  • Long
  • Society
  • Serious

• The only art I have is a Polaroid from Peter Beard from his book. I shot with him four years ago, and he did a special Polaroid for me, so I consider it a piece of art.

  

  Irina Shayk
  • Art
  • Book
  • Me

• Productive achievement is a consequence and an expression of health and self-esteem, not its cause.

  

  Nathaniel Branden
  • Health
  • Achievement

• I'm not a prophet, but I always thought it was natural for dictatorships to fall. I remember in 1989, two months before the fall of the Berlin Wall, had you said it was going to happen no one would have believed you. The system seemed powerful and unbreakable. Suddenly overnight it blew away like dust.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Remember
  • Fall
  • Powerful

• What does dating mean?

  

  Lalu Prasad Yadav
  • Dating

• I'm trying to stay a song ahead, two songs ahead of everybody else.

  

  Jason Boyd
  • Trying
  • Song

• My experience is that you can't possibly win against whatever the tidal wave is that's coming at you.

  

  Lorenzo di Bonaventura
  • Experience

• Today, I, too, wish to reaffirm that I intend to continue on the path toward improved relations and friendship with the Jewish people, following the decisive lead given by John Paul II.

  

  Pope Benedict XVI
  • People
  • Today
  • Wish

• I feel like, especially being around other girls, it's really easy to start picking yourself apart and being like, 'Wow, she looks better than me.'

  

  Lauren Jauregui Fifth Harmony
  • She

• I'm probably more comfortable inside a Marine Corps rifle company than I am anywhere in my life.

  

  Jim Webb
  • Life
  • Marine

• You can usually tell when I'm happy by the fact that I've put on weight.

  

  Christy Turlington
  • Happy

• I need an office and a place I can sit down to get away from television and just write.

  

  Allison Tolman

• I love 'South Pacific.' It's got beautiful music. But there have been so many, you know, renditions of this in high school or college productions.

  

  Carmen Cusack
  • Music
  • School
  • High

• When I think about some of the policies that we make in this country, the policies are so self-driven.

  

  Bernice King
  • Country

• Real novelists, those we admire, those we consider timeless in their language and character and scene, those who receive accolades for inventive language and form, have writing lives we imagine in specific ways.

  

  Susan Straight
  • Writing
  • Character
  • Language