Rebecca Solnit Quotes

The process of transformation consists mostly of decay.

Rebecca Solnit

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• I'm probably not going to develop to a final state as an artist. Like, become better and better, more and more refined. Become 'pure.' I don't think that's going to happen to me, because I don't really see that as something I want to explore.

  

  Gary Hume
  • Artist
  • Better
  • Explore

• I've always been in love with music, but I've never thought to sing.

  

  Tamala Jones
  • Music
  • Always
  • Thought

• A well-made salad must have a certain uniformity; it should make perfect sense for those ingredients to share a bowl.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Perfect
  • Share
  • Salad

• It was a matter of survival for the local people, but it was the most violent scene I have ever witnessed. The people in my group, feeling helpless, were all spellbound and aghast at the same time. I became a vegetarian shortly after that.

  

  Wendie Malick
  • People
  • Time
  • Feeling

• Because of what I did when I was 10 years old, I'm not living from paycheck to paycheck, and I can do things because I want to do them.

  

  Macaulay Culkin
  • Want
  • Living
  • Old

• Doing collections, doing fashion is like a non-stop dialogue.

  

  Karl Lagerfeld
  • Stop
  • Fashion
  • Like

• We managed to get underway, and I don't know to this day why we didn't get struck or take a torpedo, but we didn't. We got outside of the exit of the harbor and we started dropping depth charges.

  

  Barney Ross
  • Why
  • Know
  • Day

• I loved Judy Garland. I thought she was such a classic beauty. I thought she was so endearing and charming, and I loved her voice. She was such a dreamer, and I think I was, too - and I am.

  

  Kara Lindsay
  • Beauty
  • Voice
  • Charming

• I think whenever you see what may be the seeds of a third party, you need to be very skeptical because there's not a very good track record for third parties.

  

  Candy Crowley
  • Good
  • May
  • Think

• But I've got more to learn, too. I don't feel like I'm done or I know it all.

  

  Gary Sinise
  • Done
  • Know
  • Learn

• The fox has many tricks. The hedgehog has but one. But that is the best of all.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Best
  • Fox
  • Hedgehog

• I'm quite a slow reader. It can take me quite a while to get though a book.

  

  Dakota Blue Richards
  • Book
  • Me
  • Slow

• Sports should not become routine. It should be about passion.

  

  Kapil Dev
  • Passion
  • Sports
  • Routine

• When I was a child we were sufficiently well off for me to be a picky eater and I still cannot eat vegetables cooked in the traditional British manner.

  

  Vince Cable
  • Child
  • Well
  • Vegetables

• I've always wanted to take up work that my heart is convinced about. And I shall continue to do so.

  

  Sakshi Tanwar
  • Up
  • Work
  • Heart

• The ultimate aim of all creative activity is the building!

  

  Walter Gropius
  • Creative
  • Building
  • Aim

• I was just learning to play guitar when Tracy Chapman came out. She wrote these songs, she played them by herself and I so admired her for that.

  

  Madeleine Peyroux
  • Play
  • Learning
  • Songs

• I keep on 5 to 10 pounds above my jeans weight, as the ultimate no-filler-needed refresher, and buy a size up on jeans.

  

  Iman
  • Up
  • Size
  • Jeans

• We've found some things that are suspicious in nature, and we're going to err on the side of caution.

  

  Bill Vaughan
  • Nature
  • Found
  • Sides

• I get slightly irritated by people who say they're natural rebels because it just means that they're going to be against whatever anybody does, which is almost like saying you might as well leave it as it is. I'm naturally quite conformist, really. If I go to a country and they say, "You've got to drive on the right," I'm not going to drive on the left to show that I'm different. I'm able to stick to the law. I'm not a soldier for anything, either. I'm only a singer and I don't think it makes a difference what we sing.

  

  Robert Wyatt
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Country

• It seems like a lot of what was going on when I quit is still going on.

  

  Slash Guns N' Roses
  • Quit
  • Going On

• Something happens between a novel and its reader which is similar to the process of developing photographs, the way they did it before the digital age. The photograph, as it was printed in the darkroom, became visible bit by bit. As you read your way through a novel, the same chemical process takes place.

  

  Patrick Modiano
  • Age
  • You
  • Process

• A diplomatic peace is not yet the real peace. It is an essential step in the peace process leading towards a real peace.

  

  Yitzhak Rabin
  • Real
  • Peace
  • Process

• The process of transformation consists mostly of decay.

  

  Rebecca Solnit
  • Process
  • Transformation