Nathan Englander Quotes

Empathy is what obsesses me. And watching empathy recede in the world is terrifying.

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• I don't have Gandalf the White's certainty about everything.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • Everything
  • White
  • Certainty

• Life is a canvas of many strokes where shades from different palettes meet into a picture so concrete that some forget it is their own, so become framed themselves.

  

  Vanna Bonta
  • Life
  • Different
  • Picture

• I have a lot of friends and fans in Canada and as a matter of fact I met a fan from there that came down to my office. It was nice and we took pictures and had a nice talk.

  

  Larry Holmes
  • Friends
  • Nice
  • Down

• The goal, as Compaq has stated all along in its history, is to support an open industry standard.

  

  Eckhard Pfeiffer
  • History
  • Support
  • Goal

• As the president of Afghanistan I look at the suffering of our people as a whole.

  

  Hamid Karzai
  • People
  • Suffering
  • Look

• A man of knowledge lives by acting, not by thinking about acting.

  

  Carlos Castaneda
  • Thinking
  • Man
  • Knowledge

• My main point is to be funny; if I can slip a message in there, fine.

  

  Flip Wilson
  • Funny
  • Point
  • I Can

• When I'm writing, I'm in an isolation chamber. I'm not one to think about that outside world stuff when I'm writing.

  

  Adam Mansbach
  • World
  • Writing
  • Isolation

• Even as empiricism is winning the mind, transcendentalism continues to win the heart.

  

  E. O. Wilson
  • Mind
  • Heart
  • Winning

• There are several peculiarities that I share with children which, like having no front teeth, are perhaps more acceptable in the very young, but which, for better or worse, seem to be a part of my makeup.

  

  Zilpha Keatley Snyder
  • Children
  • Better
  • Makeup

• I love to perform live.

  

  Katey Sagal
  • Live
  • I Love
  • Perform

• I have 60 years of reading to draw upon: naval memoirs, dispatches, the Naval Chronicles, family letters.

  

  Patrick O'Brian
  • Family
  • Reading
  • Years

• I love Shirley Maclaine. Love that woman.

  

  Cameron Diaz
  • Love
  • Woman
  • I Love

• Never buy four C-plus paintings when you can buy one A.

  

  Walter Annenberg
  • You
  • Never
  • Four

• Not only are police officers often taken for granted, many people are highly vocal about their dislike for cops.

  

  Karen Salmansohn
  • People
  • Taken
  • Police

• People who understand context would be steamed to have someone else dictating how they can call it.

  

  Larry Wall
  • People

• The city and the crowd unidealise love; and love, in the young warm heart of a girl, should be a dream apart from all commoner emotions - as sweet and as ethereal as the blush with which it is born and dies. Beauty gives its own gracefulness to love - there must be romance blended with the passion inspired by the very lovely face which the mirror reflected.

  

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon
  • Heart
  • Dream
  • Girl

• we made love on the living room floorwith the noise in the background of a televised warand in that defeaning pleasure i thought i heard someone sayif we walk away they'll walk away

  

  Conor Oberst Bright Eyes

• We all have aspects of ourselves that we my not be aware of. Actors in particular - they have multiple personality disorder. They get paid a lot of money to exhibit that.

  

  Brad Anderson
  • Money
  • Personality

• I am one who believes that the world goes from the slime to the sublime. And you can take Darwin and all your philosophers and all your ontologists, and that's the direction.

  

  Mario Cuomo
  • World

• It takes great deal of courage to see the world in all its tainted glory, and still to love it.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • World
  • Courage
  • Glory

• We strive towards a better world, but one can never do it without compromise. We can all change the world for the better, starting in your own little surroundings, together with people who believe in it, too. This way you can make it work and show others that it actually can work. That doesn't mean that everybody has to do it like you "or else..." If there is no compromise possible, then it turns into extremism, and I don't think that extremism ever added something positive to the world.

  

  G.W. Sok
  • World
  • Better
  • Strive

• We all contribute to The National, and it's like a familiar family. Matt is dad, Brian's like the dark horse uncle, Scott's the long-suffering mum, and Aaron and I are the bratty twins.

  

  Bryce Dessner The National
  • Long
  • Family
  • Dad

• Empathy is what obsesses me. And watching empathy recede in the world is terrifying.

  

  Nathan Englander
  • World
  • Empathy
  • Obsesses