Edmund White Quotes
I think that there are empty ecological niches in the literary landscape crying to be filled and when a book more or less fills a niche it's seized on, even when it's a far from perfect fit.Edmund White
Quotes to Explore
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No one can occupy your generosity except you. Who can occupy your patience when impatience roars through you? Who except you can choose not to act with judgment when all of your thoughts are judgmental? Your life is yours to live, no matter how you choose to live it. When you do not think about how you intend to live it, it lives you.
Gary Zukav -
The future is much like the present, only longer.
Dan Quisenberry -
I enjoy building more than managing.
Wayne Huizenga -
If you're not kind, then you won't be attractive to me personally because that spirit shines through and makes people attractive.
Madeline Zima -
There is still a funny notion that women should not write violent fiction.
Val McDermid -
Nature builds things that are antifragile. In the case of evolution, nature uses disorder to grow stronger. Occasional starvation or going to the gym also makes you stronger, because you subject your body to stressors and gain from them.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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I had this dream that I was going to come to New York and be a writer.
Garth Risk Hallberg -
It's unacceptable to just sit on the couch and say I'm not doing anything. You've got to get out and do everything you can.
Owen Hart -
I am a hopeless romantic who falls in lust and gets in trouble. I love my work and am very productive, yet I always find time to play.
Maksim Chmerkovskiy -
Credit you give yourself is not worth having.
Irving Thalberg -
I praise the Lord, the Sovereign of the royal realm, Who has extended his sway over the tract of the world.
Taliesin -
I knew the ribosome was going to be the focus of Nobel prizes. It stands at the crossroads of biology, between the gene and what comes out of the gene. But I had convinced myself I was not going to be a winner.
Venkatraman Ramakrishnan
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You can be a singer, and you can be a guitar player, but putting them together is another animal.
Gavin DeGraw -
The mark of higher education isn't the knowledge you accumulate in your head. It's the skills you gain about how to learn.
Adam Grant -
I would say that to put architecture in the chain of history, to be able to interpret and understand why we are where we are, is quite crucial.
Rafael Moneo -
We have promised to support India in its international aspiration. We have agreed to set up a working group on technology.
Viktor Orban -
White folks hear the blues come out, but they don't know how it got there.
Ma Rainey -
A writer is, after all, only half his book. The other half is the reader and from the reader the writer learns.
P. L. Travers
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I love saying 'Hodor!'
Kristian Nairn -
Mother died today. Or maybe yesterday; I can't be sure.
Albert Camus -
Every man who strikes blows for power, for influence, for institutions, for the right, must be just as good an anvil as he is a hammer.
J. G. Holland -
Today I begin to understand what love must be, if it exists... When we are parted, we each feel the lack of the other half of ourselves. We are incomplete like a book in two volumes of which the first has been lost. That is what I imagine love to be: incompleteness in absence.
Edmond de Goncourt -
I don't want to be anything other than what I've been trying to be lately.
Gavin DeGraw -
I think that there are empty ecological niches in the literary landscape crying to be filled and when a book more or less fills a niche it's seized on, even when it's a far from perfect fit.
Edmund White