Laura Wade Quotes

I don't like writing with real people in mind.

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• Watching a whole cluster of friends, and my own mother, die over quite a short space of time convinced me that purely materialist 'explanations' for our mysterious human existence simply won't do - on an intellectual level.

  

  A. N. Wilson
  • Time
  • Friends
  • Mother

• The world needs some help.

  

  Zac Brown Band
  • World
  • Help
  • Needs

• I'm just a black hole for stuff. No one should ever hand me anything, because I get so easily distracted. I'll be like, 'Oh, look, something shiny!' I'm glad I never learned how to drive. I would be really dangerous.

  

  Florence Welch Florence and the Machine
  • Learned
  • Dangerous
  • Drive

• You know they're not going to lose 162 consecutive games.

  

  Harry Caray
  • Know
  • Sports
  • Lose

• The first thing people say to me when they meet me is, 'You're so much skinner in person.' You have to live up to these standards that are so unrealistic. I try to tune it out.

  

  Gail Simmons
  • People
  • Live
  • Standards

• I have programmed myself to be at least 105 years old.

  

  Oleg Cassini
  • Myself
  • Years
  • Old

• Over the years, humans have managed to incorporate nearly every element, light and weighty, common and obscure, into our daily lives. And given how small atoms are and how many of them there are all around us, it's almost certain that your body has at least brushed against an atom of every single natural element on the periodic table.

  

  Sam Kean
  • Small
  • Light
  • Single

• Risk comes from not knowing what you're doing.

  

  Warren Buffett
  • Knowledge
  • Risk
  • Doing

• The country has undergone a profound social upheaval, the greatest the proletariat has ever known.

  

  C. L. R. James
  • Country
  • Profound
  • Greatest

• I'm a big 'American Idol' watcher, and sometimes I like to watch 'America's Got Talent.' Those are big, corny admissions, but sometimes it's so fun to see those kids really sing their hearts out.

  

  Katey Sagal
  • Kids
  • American
  • America

• Hillary Clinton almost got to be president. The reasons why she didn't become president had to do with bad judgments about how to handle the early caucus states, which is not a gender-specific trait.

  

  Gail Collins
  • Why
  • She
  • Bad

• To be outspoken is easy when you do not wait to speak the complete truth.

  

  Rabindranath Tagore
  • Truth
  • Speak
  • Easy

• I think the first step is to understand that forgiveness does not exonerate the perpetrator. Forgiveness liberates the victim. It's a gift you give yourself.

  

  T. D. Jakes
  • Yourself
  • Gift
  • Forgiveness

• All of my main characters have been under 30.

  

  Tamra Davis
  • Characters
  • Been
  • Main

• I've had to be tough my whole life.

  

  Karen Handel
  • Life
  • Tough
  • Had

• The law is simply expediency wearing a long white dress.

  

  Quentin Crisp
  • Long
  • Law
  • Dress

• We do violence to the consciousness of a past age when we divide what was indivisible to it: the one sacred truth of the Christian creed.

  

  Hans Jonas
  • Truth
  • Age
  • Past

• I want love, because love is the best feeling in the whole world.

  

  Fairuza Balk
  • World
  • Love
  • Feeling

• All good poetry is forged slowly and patiently, link by link, with sweat and blood and tears.

  

  Bosie
  • Good
  • Poetry
  • Tears

• Ours is a nation of laws: of citizens who live under them and for the citizens who enforce them. So, to a community in Ferguson that is rightly hurting and looking for answers, let me call once again for us to seek some understanding rather than simply holler at each other. Let's seek to heal rather than to wound each other.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Live
  • Law
  • Community

• The best thing is looking back and realizing how good life is. If you don't take the time to think about it and analyze it, you'll never realize all the dots that are connected.

  

  Beyonce Destiny's Child
  • Life
  • Time
  • Good

• I look for the sources of domination and misery that are so deep down that they apply to the system and the apply to its supposed opposition also. … Basically, revolutionaries never go far enough, and if they're not going to go far enough, they should stop upsetting people. Or killing them, for that matter.

  

  Bob Black
  • People
  • Stop
  • Deep

• In general, I think people are worried about saying the wrong thing to any grieving person. On a very basic level, I think they're frightened of touching off tears or sorrow, as though someone tearing up at the mention of unhappy news would be the mentioner's fault.

  

  Elizabeth McCracken
  • People
  • Up
  • Tears

• I don't like writing with real people in mind.

  

  Laura Wade
  • People
  • Writing
  • Mind