Alan Weisman Quotes

But the Earth holds ghosts, even of entire nations.

Alan Weisman

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• Democracy opens new vistas and opportunities. We should use the opportunities it offers to correct past mistakes not to blunder anew.

  

  Ibrahim Babangida
  • Past
  • Democracy
  • Mistakes

• I was a cleaner while at university. The job wasn't bad, but I was amazed by how badly cleaners are treated - how disrespected they are by the people they work for.

  

  Tamsin Greig
  • People
  • Work
  • Job

• We were descended from royalty.

  

  Natalie Wood
  • Royalty
  • Were
  • Descended

• I haven't actually studied acting at all.

  

  Kat Dennings
  • Acting
  • Actually
  • Studied

• I really don't like going out anymore. I used to love it, but now it's not fun. I'd rather have friends come over and hot have to worry about crazy people taking pictures.

  

  Paris Hilton
  • People
  • Friends
  • Fun

• New Zealanders have conventions and pleasantries, but we are direct. We are encouraged to be transparent with our behavior and not to employ passive aggression.

  

  Daniel Gillies
  • New
  • Behavior
  • Passive

• I don't really do themes. I might accidentally, but themes are an emergent phenomena of the writing of the book, of just trying to get a story out there.

  

  Iain Banks
  • Writing
  • Trying
  • Book

• Faith is much better than belief. Belief is when someone else does the thinking.

  

  R. Buckminster Fuller
  • Thinking
  • Faith
  • Better

• I love to learn, and at some level, there's something to learn from my books. And I love art and philosophy, so there's something philosophical about my fiction.

  

  Dan Brown
  • Love
  • Art
  • Philosophy

• I think I was only divorced once, and the rest were annulments. Or, maybe not. I can't keep track actually, because it's not that important. I just am who I am.

  

  Lana Wood
  • Actually
  • Divorced
  • Annulments

• A big blockbuster like 'Kick' expands the audience for my films and makes it easier to promote them.

  

  Nawazuddin Siddiqui
  • Like
  • Audience
  • Big

• I used to a lot. I used to go dancing.

  

  Parker Stevenson
  • Used
  • Dancing
  • Go

• Why is it better to love than to be loved? It is surer.

  

  Sacha Guitry
  • Love
  • Better
  • For Her

• I don't look too far ahead.

  

  Xander Berkeley
  • Look
  • Far
  • Ahead

• My writing became more and more minimalist. In the end, I couldn't write at all. For seven or eight years, I hardly wrote. But then I had a revelation. What if I did the opposite? What if, when a sentence or a scene was bad, I expanded it, and poured in more and more? After I started to do that, I became free in my writing.

  

  Karl Ove Knausgaard
  • Writing
  • Bad
  • Free

• All God's children are not beautiful. Most of God's children are, in fact, barely presentable.

  

  Fran Lebowitz
  • God
  • Children
  • Beautiful

• Sublime is the dominion of the mind over the body, that, for a time, can make flesh and nerve impregnable, and string the sinews like steel, so that the weak become so mighty.

  

  Harriet Beecher Stowe
  • Time
  • Mind

• Categorizing is necessary for humans, but it becomes pathological when the category is seen as definitive, preventing people from considering the fuzziness of boundaries, let alone revising their categories.

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  • People
  • Alone

• The Oscars is always the most special event of Awards Season and is the grand finale - there's just something about the atmosphere that makes it magical.

  

  Carly Steel

• Scripture ... does not derive its authority from the fact that we use it, not even when we use Scripture in faith.

  

  G. C. Berkouwer
  • Faith
  • Scripture

• Vancouver is one of my favorite places on earth. It's gray and rainy there a lot of the time, but for some reason, even though it's gray and rainy, I feel like it's a sunny day.

  

  Billy Campbell
  • Time
  • Earth

• The Earth is not dying-it is being killed. And the people who are killing it have names and addresses.

  

  Utah Phillips
  • People
  • Earth
  • Dying

• A great, a good, and a right mind is a kind of divinity lodged in flesh, and may be the blessing of a slave as well as of a prince: it came from heaven, and to heaven it must return; and it is a kind of heavenly felicity, which a pure and virtuous mind enjoys, in some degree, even upon earth.

  

  Seneca the Younger
  • Mind
  • Earth
  • Kind

• But the Earth holds ghosts, even of entire nations.

  

  Alan Weisman
  • Earth
  • Nations
  • Ghosts