Rebecca Solnit Quotes

For many years, I have been moved by the blue at the far edge of what can be seen, that color of horizons, of remote mountain ranges, of anything far away. The color of that distance is the color of an emotion, the color of solitude and of desire, the color of there seen from here, the color of where you are not. And the color of where you can never go.

Rebecca Solnit

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• A landline is an anchor - busy signals, long distance bills, missed connections and all.

  

  Rainbow Rowell
  • Long
  • Distance
  • Busy

• The water is alive. It is alive. If we could get a mask and fins and drop down off these docks, we'd see snook and redfish and probably goliath grouper. And it's an amazing world unto itself and a very thin demarcation between one world and the other. You know, the distance of the water surface.

  

  Randy Wayne White
  • World
  • Amazing
  • Water

• A thing is mighty big when time and distance cannot shrink it.

  

  Zora Neale Hurston
  • Time
  • Distance
  • Big

• I'm exchanging molecules every 30 days with the natural world and in a spiritual sense I know I am a part of it and take my photographs from that emotional feeling within me, rather than from an emotional distance as a spectator.

  

  Galen Rowell
  • Feeling
  • Spiritual
  • Emotional

• All my career, all that I've really done has been based on emotion and intuition and gravitating toward what sounds good.

  

  Flea Jane's Addiction
  • Good
  • Done
  • Career

• The law serves of nought else in these days but for to do wrong, for nothing is spread almost but false matters by color of the law for reward, dread and favor and so no remedy is had in the Court of Equity in any way.

  

  Jack Cade
  • Law
  • Color
  • Equity

• As a person of color from the South, San Francisco was the first city that really made me feel like an other.

  

  Barry Jenkins
  • City
  • Person
  • Feel

• Light, with its handmaiden color, was everywhere.

  

  Tad Williams
  • Light
  • Color

• In solitude the trumpets of solitude Are not of another solitude resounding; A little string speaks for a crowd of voices.

  

  Wallace Stevens
  • Solitude

• Nothing is more capable of troubling our reason, and consuming our health, than secret notions of jealousy in solitude.

  

  Aphra Behn
  • Health
  • Solitude
  • Jealousy

• While there should be collective efforts to increase tech inclusion overall, the industry must work to specifically attract and retain women of color.

  

  Kimberly Bryant
  • Work
  • Women
  • Color

• I would love to tell you I've found the secret to eternal youth. I go to the gym and avoid too many chips. I love to eat, hate to work out, but if you can't count all your ribs from a distance you're considered obese.

  

  Jason Isaacs
  • Work
  • Hate
  • Distance

• 'The Night Cafe' and 'The Starry Night' still emit such pathos, density, and intensity that they send shivers down the spine. Whether Van Gogh thought in color or felt with his intellect, the radical color, dynamic distortion, heart, soul, and part-by-part structure in these paintings make him a bridge to a new vision and the vision itself.

  

  Jerry Saltz
  • Heart
  • Soul
  • Night

• One of the greatest compliments you can ever get is when you make fun of a certain sect of people and they are laughing the hardest. When we did 'Men on Film' on 'In Living Color,' gay men wrote in how much they loved it.

  

  Marlon Wayans
  • People
  • Men
  • Fun

• God created man and, finding him not sufficiently alone, gave him a companion to make him feel his solitude more keenly.

  

  Paul Valery
  • God
  • Alone
  • Solitude

• When I left Europe in 1987 I did so with the thought that my relevance as a composition teacher would benefit from a certain cool distance to certain tendencies I had been observing for several years with increasing disquiet.

  

  Brian Ferneyhough
  • Cool
  • Teacher
  • Distance

• Truth knows no color; it appeals to intelligence.

  

  James Hal Cone
  • Truth
  • Color

• I think New Orleans is such a beautiful city. It looks like a fairytale when you walk through the French Quarter or the Garden District. There is such a lush sense of color, style, architecture - and the people themselves.

  

  Anika Noni Rose
  • People
  • Beautiful
  • City

• The gods should certainly be revered, but kept at a distance... . The way is not beyond man; he who creates a way outside of man cannot make it a true way. A good man is content with changing man, and that is enough for him.

  

  Confucius
  • Man
  • Distance
  • Gods

• My career spanned the era when relievers started to become more important.

  

  Dennis Eckersley
  • Important
  • Career

• The modern tradition is the tradition of revolt. The French Revolution is still our model today: history is violent change, and this change goes by the name of progress. I do not know whether these notions really apply to art.

  

  Octavio Paz
  • Art
  • History
  • Today

• The wretched have no compassion, they can do good only from strong principles of duty.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Good
  • Strong
  • Compassion

• You have to liberate yourself first from the prejudices of the world in which you live.

  

  Donald Kagan
  • World
  • Live

• For many years, I have been moved by the blue at the far edge of what can be seen, that color of horizons, of remote mountain ranges, of anything far away. The color of that distance is the color of an emotion, the color of solitude and of desire, the color of there seen from here, the color of where you are not. And the color of where you can never go.

  

  Rebecca Solnit
  • Color
  • Distance
  • Emotion