Trenton Lee Stewart Quotes

They stared out their window at night enough to know where the darkest shadows lay, and it was to the darkest shadows they kept.

Trenton Lee Stewart

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• Often it seems that there are writers who are their best selves on the page. That Seamus Heaney was as genuine and deeply admirable in person as in his poems was to me a gift, then as now.

  

  Natasha Trethewey
  • Best
  • Gift
  • Page

• I want to have an impact on my son.

  

  Orlando Bloom
  • Want
  • Son
  • Impact

• I never desperately wanted to be a jazz drummer. If anything, I was motivated a lot by fear. Fear of the conductor, fear of the future.

  

  Damien Chazelle
  • Future
  • Fear
  • Motivated

• Some of those men in power, we just have to change their faces because we're not going to change their minds.

  

  Patricia Ireland
  • Men
  • Power
  • Change

• But unfortunately Locke treated ideas of reflection as if they were another class of objects of contemplation beside ideas of sensation.

  

  Samuel Alexander
  • Ideas
  • Reflection
  • Class

• You're not human if you don't feel fear. But I've learnt to treat fear as an emotion that sharpens me. It's there to give me that edge for what I have to do.

  

  Bear Grylls
  • Fear
  • Me
  • Treat

• Under Obamacare, it virtually is impossible to find out the price of anything. That's not the way to make health care affordable.

  

  Rand Paul
  • Health
  • Care
  • Impossible

• I'm one of the first invention capitalists.

  

  Nathan Myhrvold
  • First
  • Invention

• Southern Europe has not done enough to enhance its competitiveness, while northern Europe has not done enough to boost demand. Debt burdens remain crushing, and Europe's economy remains unable to grow.

  

  Barry Eichengreen
  • Done
  • Enough
  • Grow

• At a certain moment the canvas began to appear to one American painter after another as an arena in which to act-rather than as a space in which to reproduce, re-design, analyze or express an object, actual or imagined. What was to go on the canvas was not a picture but an event.

  

  Harold Rosenberg
  • American
  • Space
  • Picture

• If the Lord - who is the light of all things - vouchsafe to enlighten me, I will treat of Light; wherefore I will divide the present work into 3 Parts... Linear Perspective, The Perspective of Colour, The Perspective of Disappearance.

  

  Leonardo da Vinci
  • Work
  • Light
  • Present

• Adam named the living animals, MaddAddam names the dead ones.

  

  Margaret Atwood

• It is not the same thing. You are perhaps not lying, but you are not telling the truth.

  

  Jean-Paul Sartre
  • Truth

• It's not important to me to make other people at ease. I am difficult, but that's 'cause I don’t really give a fuck.

  

  Amy Winehouse
  • People
  • Important

• Playing for Yogi is like playing for your father; playing for Billy is like playing for your father-in-law.

  

  Don Baylor
  • Father
  • Law

• There's nothing worse than working with an orchestra who looks down on working with a conductor who doesn't want to conduct for you. You need to be with an orchestra that can follow you and respect you.

  

  Nell Carter
  • Respect

• Young voters may be growing up in an era of increased global connection, cooperation and commerce. But they're very open to politicians who tell them it is these very things that are keeping elites in power and keeping their generation down.

  

  Kristen Soltis Anderson
  • Up
  • May
  • Power

• Everyone needs help from everyone.

  

  Eugen Berthold Friedrich Brecht
  • Help

• Horror is edgier. Dark fantasy feels mushier to me. Finding the difference - it's an instinct. And they overlap a lot.

  

  Ellen Datlow
  • Dark

• Do you want to tear your life apart and get rid of everything you've known as a lifestyle? Like seeing your family? Being with your friends? A fishing trip? A hunting trip? A night's sleep?

  

  Walter F. Mondale
  • Life
  • Family
  • Friends

• I love skinny-dipping. Night swimming as well; that's my favorite.

  

  Jamie Lawson
  • Night
  • Swimming

• I'd still thought that everything I thought about that night-the shame, the fear-would fade in time. But that hadn't happened. Instead, the things that I remembered, these little details, seemed to grow stronger, to the point where I could feel their weight in my chest. Nothing, however stuck with me more than the memory of stepping into that dark room and what I found there, and how the light then took that nightmare and made it real.

  

  Sarah Dessen
  • Real
  • Night
  • Fear

• People know that they can tune in to '60 Minutes' any Sunday and know that they're going to learn something by watching the broadcast. They may not like every piece, they may not agree with every piece, but they'll say, huh, I didn't know that about something in there.

  

  Ed Bradley
  • People
  • May
  • Sunday

• They stared out their window at night enough to know where the darkest shadows lay, and it was to the darkest shadows they kept.

  

  Trenton Lee Stewart
  • Night
  • Enough
  • Shadow