Carolyn Heilbrun (Carolyn Gold Heilbrun) Quotes

Professors of literature collect books the way a ship collects barnacles, without seeming effort.

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• You really don't get paid in these independent movies, no matter how many people see them.

  

  Parker Posey
  • People
  • Independent
  • Movies

• Wonder rather than doubt is the root of all knowledge.

  

  Abraham Joshua Heschel
  • Knowledge
  • Wonder
  • Doubt

• It's pretty simple, pretty obvious: that people's first impressions of people are really a big mistake.

  

  Vincent D'Onofrio
  • People
  • Pretty
  • Simple

• There's no more to Holden Caulfield. Read the book again. It's all there. Holden Caulfield is only a frozen moment in time.

  

  J. D. Salinger
  • Time
  • Book
  • Moment

• I think women are really good at making friends and not good at networking. Men are good at networking and not necessarily making friends. That's a gross generalization, but I think it holds in many ways.

  

  Madeleine Albright
  • Good
  • Men
  • Women

• The thing I find frustrating about rock music is, how different can you make an acoustic drum kit sound, an electric guitar and vocals? It's very stuck, whereas with electronic music, new sounds are being created.

  

  Flume
  • Music
  • Different
  • Rock

• I went to a Catholic all-girls school, and we would play cassettes of music we liked, and when it was my turn, they would laugh at my choices. I would play Billie Holliday, Elmore James and Howlin' Wolf, but it was fine; if I had to listen to their choices, they had to listen to mine.

  

  Imelda May
  • Music
  • School
  • Choices

• I have a lot of men who will say to me, 'I don't read books by women, but I like you.'

  

  Karin Slaughter
  • Men
  • Women
  • Like

• Loss of hope rather than loss of life is what decides the issues of war. But helplessness induces hopelessness.

  

  B. H. Liddell Hart
  • Life
  • War
  • Hope

• Let's be clear about what Common Core is. It spells out what students should know at the end of each grade. The goal is to ensure that our students are sound in math and literacy and that our schools have some basic consistency nationwide. But the standards do not dictate a national curriculum, and teachers are not told how or what to teach.

  

  Brown Campbell
  • Goal
  • End
  • Math

• I feel like, in general in my work life, my main goal has been to just be in a situation where I'm not bored with my job. That's been the entire principle. Got my wish.

  

  Ira Glass
  • Life
  • Work
  • Job

• Hard work and a good education will take you further than any government program.

  

  Aaron Schock
  • Good
  • Work
  • Education

• Connected with the fall of Satan is his lameness. The devil is represented in art and in legion as limping on one foot; this was occasioned by his having broken his leg in his fall.

  

  Sabine Baring-Gould
  • Art
  • Fall
  • Broken

• The U.S. government has known since the early 1990s about Soviet-era smallpox weapons, and collected circumstantial evidence of programs elsewhere.

  

  Barton Gellman
  • Government
  • Evidence
  • Early

• Freedom means you are unobstructed in living your life as you choose. Anything less is a form of slavery.

  

  Wayne Dyer
  • Life
  • Freedom
  • Slavery

• Sometimes you find your voice by trying to write like people, and sometimes you find it by trying to write unlike people.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • People
  • Trying
  • Voice

• The person in New York City is showing too little empathy for the Trump voter. The Trump voter is showing too little empathy for the person who's very worried about the refugee ban. They're not spending enough time with each other to have a meaningful conversation.

  

  J. D. Vance
  • Time
  • City
  • Trump

• Our greatest asset is the one we distrust the most: the built-in antifragility of certain risk-taking systems.

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  • Risk

• Death seems to be a long way off. Is this not shallow thinking? It is worthless and is only a joke within a dream. It will not do to think in such a way and be negligent. Insofar as death is always at one's door, one should make sufficient effort and act quickly.

  

  Yamamoto Tsunetomo
  • Thinking
  • Long
  • Death

• I have reason to know, as do many of you, that when the evidence on a controversial subject is fairly and calmly presented, the public recognizes it for what it is-an effort to illuminate rather than to agitate.

  

  Edward R. Murrow
  • Effort

• If I am a cup maker, I'm interested in making the best cup I possibly can. My effort goes into that cup, not what people think about it.

  

  Denzel Washington
  • People
  • Effort

• Philosophy dwells aloft in the Temple of Science, the divinity of its inmost shrine; her dictates descend among men, but she herself descends not : whoso would behold her must climb with long and laborious effort, nay, still linger in the forecourt, till manifold trial have proved him worthy of admission into the interior solemnities.

  

  Thomas Carlyle
  • Men
  • Effort
  • Philosophy

• Professors of literature collect books the way a ship collects barnacles, without seeming effort.

  

  Carolyn Heilbrun
  • Effort
  • Literature
  • Books