W. G. Sebald Quotes
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There is a natural progression to 'Lost,' and as the story goes forward, it's going to change. It's not a static story. The franchise of 'Lost' is not characters sitting on a beach.
Carlton Cuse -
In 1930s mysteries, all sorts of motives were credible which aren't credible today, especially motives of preventing guilty sexual secrets from coming out. Nowadays, people sell their guilty sexual secrets.
P. D. James -
I'm an Irish Catholic and I have a long iceberg of guilt.
Edna O'Brien -
The religions that fascinate me and, you know, could possibly tempt me are not the ones that involve faith or belief. They're the ones that offer you the opportunity to know the spirit or deity.
Barbara Ehrenreich -
When I feel my blood sugar getting off, I drink a glass of kale juice. It's so disgusting you don't want to eat anything!
Naomi Klein -
The function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers.
Ralph Nader
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You're miserable, edgy and tired. You're in the perfect mood for journalism.
Warren Ellis -
When a lion doesn't get its prey, it remains hungry. When the prey saves himself, he has not won, but has saved his life.
Uday Kotak -
I wrote my first play at the age of 10, 55 years ago, and I've always found it a fantastic relief to imagine I know what things would be like from the point of view of other individuals and to send out signals from where I actually am not. Playwrights never need to write from the place where they are.
Wallace Shawn -
This dark diction has become America's addiction.
Kanye West -
Humankind cannot bear very much reality.
T. S. Eliot -
I was an okay singer. I was an okay dancer. But acting? Never could do it.
Victoria Beckham Spice Girls
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Many parks in Florida have information kiosks with colorful enamel signs showing the special flora and fauna in the park. The gopher tortoise, the scrub jay, the indigo snake. At no park with an indigo snake on its kiosk signs could I find an indigo.
Padgett Powell -
I really wasn't even aware that Batman and Superman had this kind of grudging friendship.
Mark Valley -
I had a go at changing history - maybe not all by myself - I fought at the battle of Normandy, I slogged through the Ardennes, and I celebrated the liberation of Paris on the streets with beautiful French girls throwing flowers at me. I said good-bye to my first true love and discovered what I really wanted to do with my life.
LeRoy Neiman -
Don't know much, but I know I love you.
Linda Ronstadt -
Goldfish are flowers ... flowers that move.
Han Suyin -
To those in the executive branch who say ‘just trust us’ when it comes to secret and warrantless surveillance of domestic communications, I say, ‘Remember your history.’
Eric Holder
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The difference between a gourmet and a gourmand we take to be this: a gourmet is he who selects, for his nice and learned delectation, the most choice delicacies, prepared in the most scientific manner; whereas the gourmand bears a closer analogy to that class of great eaters ill-naturedly (we dare say) denominated, or classed with, aldermen.
Abraham Hayward -
I can find God in nature, in animals, in birds and the environment.
Pat Buckley -
We deliberate not about ends, but about means.
Aristotle -
By all means be experimental, but let the reader be part of the experiment
W. G. Sebald