Rebecca Makkai Quotes

I have the distinct feeling that when I'm old, and I look back on my life, my thirties will be one huge blur. There's a lot that gets neglected: exercise, dishes, laundry, my poor garden. I try to prioritize the important but non-urgent things over the unimportant but urgent things.

Rebecca Makkai

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• From a spectator point of view, Test cricket is not important; people hardly watch Test cricket. But as a player, Tests are the real thing. You have to concentrate for five days. It's a lot of time, and not easy to do it day in and day out. If people have played 70-100 Tests, it's a lot of cricket, a lot of concentration and dedication.

  

  Yuvraj Singh
  • People
  • Time
  • Important

• I don't like to take a lot of stuff since I'm really sensitive to medications.

  

  Kate Walsh
  • Like
  • Take
  • Sensitive

• But what is after all the happiness of mere power? There is a greater happiness possible than to be lord of heaven and earth; that is the happiness of being truly loved.

  

  Lafcadio Hearn
  • Power
  • Earth
  • Heaven

• I came to poetry through the urgent need to denounce injustice, exploitation, humiliation. I know that's not enough to change the world. But to remain silent would have been a kind of intolerable complicity.

  

  Tahar Ben Jelloun
  • World
  • Change
  • Poetry

• I have really long hair, so I don't cut it all that often. Sometimes, when I'm working, I just have the stylist on set trim it for me. I don't dye my hair. When I was a teenager, I dyed my hair five colors at one time. It was all different shades of red going from more orange to more purple. I thought I looked so cool.

  

  Zhu Zhu
  • Time
  • Different
  • Long

• At school I used to avoid dance lessons. They were the worst.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • School
  • Dance
  • Worst

• I am continually pleasantly surprised by how many people are showing up at shows and are younger than our first record.

  

  Isaac Hanson Hanson
  • People
  • Shows
  • Record

• Failure to properly control our borders costs citizens in many ways: schools become overcrowded, medical resources are stretched too thin, other government services are overtaxed, and taxes increase further.

  

  Zach Wamp
  • Control
  • Government
  • Failure

• The federal government spends millions to run the Postal Service. I could lose your mail for half of that.

  

  Pat Paulsen
  • Government
  • Service
  • Run

• I would rather drudge out my life on a cotton plantation, till the grave opened to give me rest, than to live with an unprincipled master and a jealous mistress.

  

  Harriet Ann Jacobs
  • Life
  • Live
  • Rest

• I'm going to write a book, continue acting, continue motivational speaking and just share with people who I am and what I've learned in my second chance of life and pass it on to people in their first chance of life.

  

  J. R. Martinez
  • People
  • Life
  • Book

• In modern life, we tend to forget family values because of the hectic schedule.

  

  Mahesh Babu
  • Life
  • Family
  • Values

• When I was a child and came with my elders to Galway for their salmon fishing in the river that rushes past the gaol, I used to look with awe at the window where men were hung, and the dark, closed gate.

  

  Lady Gregory
  • Men
  • Past
  • Dark

• There is nothing so fleeting as the memory of benefits received.

  

  Francesco Guicciardini
  • Nothing
  • Memory
  • Fleeting

• Abnormalities in brain function have traditionally been detected using electroencephalography (EEG), which involves the measurement of the ongoing electrical activity generated by the brain.

  

  Aditi Shankardass
  • Brain

• I think there's a need for services that will make it easier for Chinese consumers to spend globally. The Bitcoin network could be an attractive solution.

  

  Jeremy Allaire
  • Chinese

• I married a young Englishman in Cambridge in 1955 and have lived in Britain every since.

  

  Anne Stevenson

• When you're in a soap, it's fantastic, and I'm really grateful for the fans who watch you and support you. For me, it was the best experience because I was able to act every day and work with so many different directors and get some great storylines and learn on-screen.

  

  Emma Rigby
  • Work
  • Great
  • Different

• My rejection of the idea of entertainment in its current form is based on the audience that comes with it.

  

  David Antin
  • Rejection

• I realised at a certain point that if I was going to have the kind of life that I fantasised about, I needed to get my act together.

  

  Natalie Massenet
  • Life
  • Together
  • Kind

• Let us all be happy, and live within our means, even if we have to borrow the money to do it with.

  

  Charles Farrar Browne
  • Live
  • Money
  • Happy

• Being right is important. Too many great teams march off saying, 'If we build it, they will come,' and then never are able to change the idea towards something that people really want.

  

  Garry Tan
  • People
  • Great
  • Important

• It can become an exercise in trying to get the reader to like and admire you instead of an exercise in creative art.

  

  David Foster Wallace
  • Trying
  • Art
  • Exercise

• I have the distinct feeling that when I'm old, and I look back on my life, my thirties will be one huge blur. There's a lot that gets neglected: exercise, dishes, laundry, my poor garden. I try to prioritize the important but non-urgent things over the unimportant but urgent things.

  

  Rebecca Makkai
  • Important
  • Exercise
  • Unimportant