Miriam Toews Quotes

I love road trips. You get into this Zen rhythm; throw sense of time out the window.

Miriam Toews

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• I'll tell you sort of an odd story: My music taste changed on 9/11. And it's very strange. I actually intellectually find this very curious. But on 9/11, I didn't like how rock music responded. And country music collectively, the way they responded, it resonated with me.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • Music
  • Story
  • Strange

• The words of truth are always paradoxical.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Truth
  • Words
  • Always

• Our goal definitely isn't to sell Stripe.

  

  Patrick Collison
  • Goal
  • Definitely
  • Sell

• No one pays me to be nice.

  

  Aaron Allston
  • Me
  • Nice
  • Pays

• I don't have a fear of aging or a fear of death.

  

  S. Jay Olshansky
  • Death
  • Fear
  • Aging

• My main goal as a songwriter is to make something that inspires people. To write things about my life that people can relate to. Whether it's a whole record or just one song for someone, I hope it can do that for them. Knowing that I have the ability to do that is inspiring to me.

  

  Kate Voegele
  • People
  • Life
  • Hope

• At the school I attended, the clergyman who ran the cathedral school in Shanghai would give lines to the boys as a punishment. They expected you to copy out, say, 20 or 30 pages from one of the school texts. But I found that rather than laboriously copying out something from a novel by Charles Dickens, it was easier if I made it up myself.

  

  J. G. Ballard
  • Up
  • School
  • Myself

• That's my opportunity to hide behind that old lady and say what I want to say.

  

  Vicki Lawrence
  • Want
  • Opportunity
  • Old

• It was always sort of my dream to make handbags and I wanted a handbag that was very sharp, very structured, very tailored... I wanted a bag you could put all of your things in it, you can open it, you could close it, you could hid all your tricks, but it's not all lumpy.

  

  L'Wren Scott
  • Dream
  • Always
  • Bag

• A lot of movies are made to make us dream.

  

  Olga Kurylenko
  • Dream
  • Movies
  • Made

• I've always maintained - a captain is only as good as his team. It is not about my leadership, it is not about me.

  

  Gautam Gambhir
  • Good
  • Team
  • Leadership

• Throughout history, the only way to secure a throne has been with a phalanx of children - nine for Victoria, 13 for George III.

  

  Kate Williams
  • Children
  • History
  • Throne

• I think that souls agree to come in and do what they're going to do and then leave when they're going to leave. So there's nothing tragic when a soul leaves. I think it was already preordained.

  

  Sally Kirkland
  • Think
  • Soul
  • Leave

• When I was four years old, my mother put me into a school for early music education where you get perfect pitch and harmony and composition.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • Music
  • School
  • Mother

• I'm a huge fan of Flying Lotus. I like The XX's stuff.

  

  Flume
  • Like
  • Flying
  • Fan

• During the songs, you transcend yourself. The best way to be in the performance is to be without pause and be essentially in the moment, in that moment of expression.

  

  Florence Welch Florence and the Machine
  • Best
  • Moment
  • Performance

• Read my letter to the old folks, and give my love to them, and tell my brothers to be always watching unto prayer, and when the good old ship of Zion comes along, to be ready to step aboard.

  

  Harriet Tubman
  • Good
  • Prayer
  • Give

• Buddhism … is not a culture but a critique of culture, an enduring nonviolent revolution or 'loyal opposition' to the culture in which it is involved.

  

  Alan Watts
  • Culture
  • Revolution

• I'm actually a very dark person, so I really want to get into some really dark roles, maybe some thrillers. I've never done one of those, so I think I'd really want to get into that, but definitely something that would get lots of people talking.

  

  Cierra Ramirez
  • People
  • Done
  • Dark

• There's always going to be bumps in the road. There's always going to be this and that, adversity. You just overcome it. It's what I've done all my life.

  

  Odell Beckham, Jr.
  • Life
  • Done
  • Road

• We have not had a window of opportunity to burn. If we lit it now, I'm not sure we could hold it even with a lot of people.

  

  Tom Johnston The Doobie Brothers
  • Opportunity
  • Window
  • Burn

• Music defines decades, and quite clearly shapes the rhythm, vitality of fashion, attitude and social behaviors. The anthology, just like most of my work, from photography to fashion design, is about and around music.

  

  Hedi Slimane
  • Music
  • Rhythm
  • Vitality of fashion

• The government don't want to talk about the consequences of the choices they make. They pretend there aren't any consequences.

  

  Johann Lamont
  • Choices

• I love road trips. You get into this Zen rhythm; throw sense of time out the window.

  

  Miriam Toews
  • Road
  • Window
  • Rhythm