Caryl Churchill Quotes

Painting doesn't mean just describing; it's a state of spirit.

Caryl Churchill

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• Marriage has made me safer.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • Me
  • Marriage
  • Made

• Catalytic oxidation in living substances rests upon change of valency in an iron compound which is the respiratory oxygen-transferring ferment.

  

  Otto Heinrich Warburg
  • Change
  • Living
  • Iron

• There is a very deep conviction in the heart of the people who work in al-Jazeera that if it changes its editorial line, it will very quickly lose its audience. Al-Jazeera has its own style; it has more than 3,500 employees, and I don't think anyone will have the attitude of changing it because they will lose.

  

  Wadah Khanfar
  • People
  • Work
  • Heart

• Could a man live by it, it were not unpleasant employment to be a poet.

  

  Oliver Goldsmith
  • Live
  • Man
  • Employment

• I think the veil is a way of taking power away from women.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Women
  • Power
  • Think

• Coming from a middle class background, travel was always considered a luxury then, even if it meant going to a relative's place or a religious shrine.

  

  Imtiaz Ali
  • Always
  • Religious
  • Travel

• The real heroes were my good buddies who died during the battles.

  

  Ira Hayes
  • Good
  • Real
  • Heroes

• No one ever died from smoking marijuana, but millions of people have died by believing politicians. So why is marijuana outlawed while politicians are still legal?

  

  Harry Browne
  • People
  • Why
  • Smoking

• Men tend to put all their emotional eggs in the basket of their wives (or womenfriends), it is difficult for a man to communicate feelings of disappointment to his wife because, if she withdraws, it feels to him like his entire emotional support system has collapsed.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • Men
  • Support
  • Wife

• Honest talk about the deficit is risky. Voters are more enthusiastic about the abstract notion of deficit reduction than about the painful details of accomplishing it.

  

  Christina Romer

• There's an incredible amount of loneliness that comes with child stardom because you're isolated from your society.

  

  Cole Sprouse
  • Society

• When I was commissioned in the Air Force, I was committed to the institution for a career.

  

  James R. Clapper
  • Career
  • Air

• It's so perfectly Alaska to be like, 'Dad we're going to the Grammys,' and for him to be like, 'Oh, well that's great, Johnny. All right, gotta go back to work.'

  

  John Gourley Portugal. The Man
  • Work
  • Great
  • Dad

• What I'm definitely against is the plodding, paint-by-numbers 19th-century-style novel that's still being written today. I just don't understand why you'd read or write that in 2011.

  

  David Shields
  • Why
  • Today
  • Style

• Certain projects find you at the right time.

  

  Pierce Brosnan
  • Time

• I work toward the liberation of women, but I'm not feminist. I'm just a woman.

  

  Buchi Emecheta
  • Work
  • Women
  • Feminist

• Against Pascal I say: The God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob and the God of the philosophers is the same God. He is a person and the negation of himself as a person. Faith comprises both itself and the doubt of itself. The Christ is Jesus and the negation of Jesus.

  

  Paul Tillich
  • God
  • Faith
  • Jesus

• I know not whether, in the eyes of the world, a brilliant death is not preferred to an obscure life of rectitude. Most men are remembered as they died, and not as they lived. We gaze with admiration upon the glories of the setting sun, yet scarcely bestow a passing glance upon its noonday splendor.

  

  Davy Crockett
  • Life
  • World
  • Men

• I had a cigarette for breakfast, just for beginners, Cried for my lunch, and sleep for dinner.

  

  G. Dep
  • Sleep
  • Rap
  • Breakfast

• Even though Helen Vendler wasn't on the Harvard faculty when I came first in 1979, she was a guardian spirit; Robert Fitzgerald gave me the use of his study in Pusey Library. Monroe and Brenda Engel kept open house, Bob and Jana Kiely made me at home in Adams House. Then, too, in 1979, Frank Bidart, whom Id met in Dublin after the death of Robert Lowell he was over seeing Caroline Blackwood Frank brought me into his circle of friends, including Robert Pinsky and Alan Williamson.

  

  Seamus Heaney
  • Home
  • House
  • Study

• I'm sickened by all religions. Religion has divided people. I don't think there's any difference between the pope wearing a large hat and parading around with a smoking purse and an African painting his face white and praying to a rock.

  

  Howard Stern
  • Painting
  • Differences
  • Faces

• Painting doesn't mean just describing; it's a state of spirit.

  

  Caryl Churchill
  • Spirit
  • Painting
  • Describing