Carolyn Heilbrun (Carolyn Gold Heilbrun) Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
Eating ready-made meals is about being very passive, and actively cooking is something that nothing compares to.
-
It's very scary to turn things down, but a project has to really mean something to me. I'm not interested in making a lot of money.
-
I write 'by the seat of my pants.' I love to do research. I am inspired by contemporary writers and contemporary events. I live in the real world.
-
When I watch myself, I see nothing but faults, like, 'This I need to do different, this I need to do different,' and so if there comes a point in time where I'm like, 'Man, this whole thing is just getting really stale,' I am not opposed to being the bad guy again.
-
It's wild, how many places of conflict that have fashion weeks. It's becoming some sort of marker for these countries that says, 'We are in conversation with the rest of the world.'
-
Since its founding, Brooks Instrument has been producing devices that measure and control the flow rate of fluids used in manufacturing processes. And for all those years, the company has relied on the standard marketing package for its sector: earnest, information-crammed manuals and brochures.
-
People don't know that when there is something running in my mind, I start smiling. If I'm angry, I smile and blush.
-
I want to be the best daughter, sister, friend and wife I can possibly be - because when I die, I am not going to be buried with my Oscar.
-
There's another way of making music, by touching the lives and feelings of ordinary people.
-
Smoke the pipe of peace, bury the tomahawk, and become one nation.
-
Everyone his own cinematographer. His own stream-of-consciousness e-mail poet. His own nightclub DJ. His own political columnist. His own biographer of his top-10 friends!
-
Shopping turns me off.
-
I was a production assistant. I saw what people who are full of themselves are like - another reason not to lose your humility! I have a mouth on me so I wasn't the best P.A.
-
Everyone has egos, and you want to come out on top. You have to pick yourself up and go at it again.
-
When I was young and ocean-racing competitively, and working the rest of the time, I was going 24 hours. I was on the verge of collapsing. But you've got to slow down a bit.
-
Speaking our language, you will understand us-and if you can think as another man thinks, you cannot dislike him.
-
Three minutes' thought would suffice to find this out; but thought is irksome and three minutes is a long time.
-
The young know how truly difficult and dreadful youth can be. Their youth is wasted on everyone else, that's the horror. The young have no authority, no respect.
-
I'm not in the slightest wanting to attack the women's movement here. But I think that in popular, broadly left-wing, broadly feminist discourse, there is a tendency to just label discrimination against women - and embedded assumptions about them - as misogyny and think 'job done.'
-
I feel like the gods have certainly patted me on the head.
-
Being born Roman and Romanisti is a privilege.
-
We in middle age require adventure.
