Carolyn Heilbrun (Carolyn Gold Heilbrun) Quotes

A literary academic can no more pass a bookstore than an alcoholic can pass a bar.

Carolyn Heilbrun

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• I was the guy literally in the chess club who decided to wear a bow tie for the last two years of high school, so I obviously wasn't trying to get the ladies.

  

  Dallas Roberts
  • Trying
  • School
  • High

• It's such a diversion to be constantly thinking of better ways I can teach people math that my hunger is for that really, for new ways of translating the beauty of it.

  

  Danica McKellar
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Beauty

• New York apartments are notoriously small, and my cute little studio is no exception - space is at a premium, which is one of the reasons that I only have a mini-fridge. Great for leftovers, cheese, and chilling Diet Coke.

  

  Rachel Sklar
  • Great
  • Small
  • Space

• Richard III is not likeable. Macbeth is not likeable. Hamlet is not likeable. And yet you can't take your eyes off them. I'm far more interested in that than I am in any sort of likeability.

  

  Beau Willimon
  • Interested
  • Hamlet
  • Macbeth

• Before I go on stage I pretend that everyone loves me.

  

  Adam Levine Maroon 5
  • Stage
  • Loves
  • Pretend

• I'm not versed enough in constitutional law to run for office. I'd have to go back to school or something.

  

  Zach Galifianakis
  • School
  • Law
  • Back To School

• Providence has its appointed hour for everything. We cannot command results, we can only strive.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Everything
  • Results
  • Strive

• I'm married to a white man, and then my daughter came out looking like the whitest white child with blonde hair and blue eyes. And I'm like, 'Omigosh, now what am I going to do?' She has my mom's features and is lighter than my husband. And my boy is browner than I am. Brown eyes and really tan.

  

  Karyn Parsons
  • She
  • Eyes
  • Mom

• A really great actor, in a lucky performance, can transform himself or herself. I've seen actors do that. But often it's a mechanical transformation, which isn't as interesting, and you've got to be careful how you go about something like that, I think.

  

  Alan Alda
  • Great
  • Interesting
  • Actor

• Drama is exposure; it is confrontation; it is contradiction and it leads to analysis, construction, recognition and eventually to an awakening of understanding.

  

  Peter Brook
  • Understanding
  • Drama
  • Theatre

• In Isaiah’s description of the downfall of Babylon, the city so famed for its astrologers, we find mention of Hobhre Shamayim,[344] that is, dividers of the heavens, astrologers who divide the heavens into houses for the convenience of their prognostications. The same persons are then described as Chozim bakkokhabhim, star-gazers, those who study the stars for the purpose of taking horoscopes.

  

  G. H. Pember
  • Description
  • Downfall
  • Babylon

• How can cosmic religious feeling be communicated from one person to another, if it can give rise to no definite notion of a God and no theology?

  

  Albert Einstein
  • God
  • Person
  • Theology

• I know the hatred and envy of your hearts. Ye are not great enough not to know of hatred and envy. Then be great enough not to be ashamed of them!

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Envy
  • Hatred
  • I Know

• What we mustn't do is lose track of academic qualifications.

  

  Steve Taylor 16 Horsepower
  • Lose
  • Academic
  • Qualifications

• The young have aspirations that never come to pass, the old have reminiscences of what never happened.

  

  Hector Hugh Munro
  • Pass
  • Aspirations
  • Reminiscences

• A literary academic can no more pass a bookstore than an alcoholic can pass a bar.

  

  Carolyn Heilbrun
  • Pass
  • Academic
  • Literary