Nathanael West Quotes

Like a dead man, only friction could make him warm or violence make him mobile.

Nathanael West

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• So, I get a kick out of working with the media.

  

  Vince McMahon
  • Working
  • Media
  • Out

• I have loved Elliott Carter's music for many years.

  

  Daniel Barenboim
  • Music
  • Years
  • Loved

• All who call the Holy Ghost a creature we pity, on the ground that, by this utterance, they are falling into the unpardonable sin of blasphemy against Him.

  

  Saint Basil
  • Sin
  • Creature
  • Holy Ghost

• The German national character is a favorite subject of character experts, probably because the less mature a nation, the more she is an object of criticism and not of history.

  

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
  • She
  • Character
  • History

• I understand that a lot of girls feel encouraged by what I have been able to do, but I've never felt like I'm a role model. I'm not concerned with building a great legacy or anything because I'll be dead so it won't matter.

  

  Tavi Gevinson
  • Great
  • Model
  • Building

• They have been saying for a long time that Iraq made an effort to import active uranium, and my colleague demonstrated the other day that they came to the conclusion that it was a fake document that everybody is relying upon.

  

  Hans Blix
  • Time
  • Long
  • Day

• That pleasure which is at once the most pure, the most elevating and the most intense, is derived, I maintain, from the contemplation of the beautiful.

  

  Edgar Allan Poe
  • Beautiful
  • Pleasure
  • Once

• The more choices we give patients affected by depression, the better we will serve them.

  

  Carlos Santana Santana
  • Choices
  • Better
  • Depression

• I think that I've had a very strange life.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • Life
  • Think
  • Strange

• What I wish more than anything is that I could start getting press about my work as an actor. That is what I do. I'm not a criminal.

  

  Randy Quaid
  • Work
  • Wish
  • Start

• I think different teams have different challenges as you go through.

  

  Dan Quinn
  • Different
  • Think
  • You

• We all know we have a prescribed amount of time on Earth. We just don't know how much.

  

  Irwin Winkler
  • Time
  • Earth
  • Know

• Buddhists talk about nirvana in very much the same terms as monotheists describe God.

  

  Karen Armstrong
  • God
  • Same
  • Talk

• It is from the traditional family that we absorb those universal ideals and principles which are the teaching of Jesus, the bedrock of our religious faith. We are taught the difference between right and wrong, and about the law, just punishment and discipline.

  

  Kamisese Mara
  • Family
  • Faith
  • Law

• I have always thought, the secret purpose of the book tour is to make the writer hate the book he's written. And, as a result, drive him to write another book.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Book
  • Hate
  • Purpose

• Before I ever acted as an amateur - which I did a great deal at school and at university - I used to go to the theater with my parents in the north of England, where I was born and brought up... Theater of all sorts.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • Up
  • Great
  • School

• Campus speech codes, that folly of the navel-gazing left, have increased the appeal of the right. Ideas must confront ideas. When hurt feelings and bruised egos are more important than the unfettered life of the mind, the universities have committed suicide.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Life
  • Important
  • Mind

• That is the most wonderful training an actor can have. If you can speak Shakespeare, you can speak anything. And it gives you complete poise and grace of movement.

  

  Basil Rathbone
  • Training

• Being about to pitch his camp in a likely place, and hearing there was no hay to be had for the cattle, 'What a life,' said he, 'is ours, since we must live according to the convenience of asses!'

  

  Plutarch
  • Life
  • Live

• Deciding to not attach ourselves to something that doesn't appropriately represent us is extremely powerful.

  

  Omari Hardwick
  • Powerful
  • Something
  • U.S.

• Then to the lip of this poor earthen Urn I lean'd, the Secret of my Life to learn: And Lip to Lip it murmur'd - 'While you live Drink! - for, once dead, you never shall return'.

  

  Omar Khayyam
  • Life
  • Live

• Earth's dispossessed are vulnerable targets for extremists: those who teach that global justice is meaningless; that satisfaction can come only in violence, division, and intellectual isolation.

  

  Abdullah II of Jordan
  • Earth
  • Justice
  • Violence

• Like a dead man, only friction could make him warm or violence make him mobile.

  

  Nathanael West
  • Violence
  • Mobile
  • Friction