Rebecca Solnit Quotes

Leave the door open for the unknown, the door into the dark. That’s where the most important things come from, where you yourself came from, and where you will go.

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• I don't have Gandalf the White's certainty about everything.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • Everything
  • White
  • Certainty

• I'm interested in ways that digital interfaces can be utilized as powerful narrative devices, and to engage people in new and exciting ways.

  

  Aaron Koblin
  • People
  • Powerful
  • Digital

• As I have seen with a lot of companies I have covered, acquisition interest can be a heady experience, and not always in a good way.

  

  Kara Swisher
  • Good
  • Experience
  • Way

• Of all presidential perks, the pardon power has a special significance. It is just the kind of authority that would attract the special attention of someone obsessed with himself and his own ability to influence events.

  

  Barbara Olson
  • Power
  • Attention
  • Influence

• The place where you're from defines who you are. You put yourself in the wrong situation, the wrong things happen.

  

  Vince Staples
  • Yourself
  • Place
  • Situation

• But I'm very careful with opinions because I never know what the truth is. When I read what the press says about me, I don't really believe what it says about other people.

  

  Carla Bruni
  • People
  • Believe
  • Truth

• Culturally, politically, everywhere you look... Read the newspaper. Go online. Our world has gone to hell.

  

  Gary Oldman
  • World
  • Look
  • Hell

• 'Ray Donovan' is very dark and very serious. As actors will tell you, the darker and more serious the material, the more jokes that go around set. It's a counterbalance.

  

  Eddie Marsan
  • You
  • Dark
  • Serious

• I just want to create, and socializing is part of the experience. It might sound crazy, but I don't see myself in the jewelry business. It's an experience.

  

  Waris Ahluwalia
  • Business
  • Experience
  • Crazy

• Romeo take me somewhere, we can be alone.I'll be waiting; all there's left to do is run.You'll be the prince and I'll be the princess,It's a love story, baby, just say yes.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Alone
  • Waiting
  • Baby

• Don't take any shit from anybody!

  

  Billy Joel

• Would you know my name if I saw you in heaven? Would it be the same If I saw you in heaven?

  

  Eric Clapton Blind Faith
  • Heaven

• Riven and torn with cannon-shot, the trunks of the trees protruded bunches of splinters like hands, the fingers above the wound interlacing with those below.

  

  Ambrose Bierce

• When I am having my picture taken, I channel Beyonce. In the studio, my inspiration is Adele.

  

  Ella Henderson
  • Picture
  • Inspiration
  • Studio

• Since I'm constantly in the sun, I use sunscreen daily.

  

  Maria Sharapova
  • Sun
  • Daily

• I don't look my age, I don't feel my age and I don't act my age. To me age is just a number.

  

  Joan Collins
  • Age

• It's a cool feeling to see how far my music has been spreading.

  

  Kygo
  • Music
  • Feeling
  • Cool

• The reason people find it so hard to be happy is that they always see the past better than it was, the present worse than it is, and the future less resolved than it will be.

  

  Marcel Pagnol
  • People
  • Happy
  • Future

• There is as much greatness of mind in acknowledging a good turn, as in doing it.

  

  Lucius Annaeus Seneca
  • Good
  • Mind
  • Greatness

• I am blessed to have so many great things in my life - family, friends and God. All will be in my thoughts daily.

  

  Lil' Kim
  • Life
  • Great
  • God

• As the day goes on you get more and more tired. Even if people say they're afternoon people or evening people, it's always best to start out first thing in the morning with your most important task as opposed to your email, phone calls, or checking the internet. If you start out with that then basically you'll just do that all day long.

  

  Brian Tracy
  • People
  • Important
  • Long

• Every game is important for us. We didn't act like it tonight.

  

  Allen Iverson
  • Important
  • Game
  • Tonight

• I just like being around people, especially nice people, and there are a lot of nice girls on tour.

  

  Caroline Wozniacki
  • People
  • Nice

• Leave the door open for the unknown, the door into the dark. That’s where the most important things come from, where you yourself came from, and where you will go.

  

  Rebecca Solnit
  • Important
  • Things
  • Doors