Maira Kalman Quotes
In any work you do, you can be profound one minute, and then you be superficial the next, and you can be smart and insightful and then insipid. There can be room for all that.
Maira Kalman
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Every step of progress the world has made has been from scaffold to scaffold, and from stake to stake.
Wendell Phillips
The irony is that Washington was, in reality, very much like Benedict Arnold. The big difference was that Washington was ultimately able to control his emotions, something Arnold never learned to do.
Nathaniel Philbrick
I try to talk about policy issues intelligently, I try very hard to avoid thought bubbles. I make sure my speeches are well researched and footnoted. I make sure I am not talking through my hat.
Malcolm Turnbull
I started writing half a paragraph of a mystery novel, half a paragraph there, and they were terrible.
Rabih Alameddine
I think mobility is very important, not only to discover opportunities elsewhere but at times, also to appreciate better what your home town has. Allahabad, for instance, has the feel of a small, tightly-knit community where everyone participates.
Vikas Swarup
I think violence can never be justified.
Abbas Kiarostami
I was a very shy child. I remember being in a kindergarten open house with my mother and children saying 'Hi' to me, and I still remember feeling this way - but I don't know why - but I wouldn't even say 'Hi' back. I was that shy.
Jim Parsons
I've always thrown like a girl.
Andrea Riseborough
I don't have a lot of skills, but one thing I can do is, I can compartmentalize. I can make that a little world that I can go back to, so I can be a waitress, or I can be a teacher, and then go and work on my book.
Dana Spiotta
I mostly want to be friends with my children.
Vanessa Paradis
Light the first light of evening, as in a room In which we rest and, for small reason, think The world imagined is the ultimate good.
Wallace Stevens
In any work you do, you can be profound one minute, and then you be superficial the next, and you can be smart and insightful and then insipid. There can be room for all that.
Maira Kalman
