Charles Seife Quotes

See appendix A for a proof that Winston Churchill was a carrot.

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• I would kiss you, had I the courage.

  

  Edouard Manet
  • You
  • Courage
  • Kiss

• I try to write in a way that makes people feel things.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • People
  • Write
  • Try

• I realize that we all do express ourselves, but those who express that which is always being done are those whose thinking is almost in every way in accord with everyone else. Expression on this basis has become dull to those who wish to think for themselves.

  

  Harry Callahan
  • Thinking
  • Done
  • Wish

• Language evolves and moves on. It is an organic thing. It is not stuck in an ivory tower, hung with expensive works of art.

  

  E. L. James
  • Art
  • Moving
  • Ivory Tower

• Larry Geller’s Leaves of Elvis’ Garden is by far the best book I have ever read about Elvis. It is emotional, revealing and spiritual, and offers the most amazing insight into the king. I highly recommend this dynamic book.

  

  Uri Geller
  • Book
  • Amazing
  • Spiritual

• It was odd to have something so personal out there in that way, but the good thing about art is that no one necessarily knows what you mean by it anyway.

  

  Gabrielle Zevin
  • Good
  • Art
  • Way

• The word "salvation" denotes rescue. Rescue? What from? Well, of course, ultimately death. And since it is sin that colludes with the forces of evil and decay, sin leads to death. So we are rescued from sin and death.

  

  N. T. Wright
  • Death
  • Evil

• Good friend for Jesus sake forbeare, To digg the dust encloased heare! Blest be the man that spares thes stones, And curst be he that moves my bones.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Moving
  • Jesus
  • Friendship

• I love variety. I love theater. I also love radio. I love language. But, the older you get, you need to earn money. You need to heighten your profile.

  

  Indira Varma
  • Money
  • Language
  • Theater

• There's a very big part of me that just wants to take all of comics history and toss it on the bonfire. I'd sort of like to get on to the future.

  

  Scott McCloud
  • Future
  • Comics
  • Bonfire

• Now that everybody shows up these days their own little metal tubes covered with buttons and lights, and filled whatever special blend they’ve cooked up, pot is more like a designer drug than the sacrament it was in my day.

  

  Derrick Bostrom Meat Puppets
  • Drug
  • Pot
  • Sacrament

• How unfortunate, how extremely unfortunate, the determination that seized people to get hold of and engulf other people. If only they could be induced to stand more on their own feet. Why couldn't Mr. Briggs be more like Lotty, who never wanted anything of anybody, but was complete in herself and respected other people's completeness? One loved being with Lotty. With her one was free, and yet befriended. Mr. Briggs looked so really nice, too. She thought she might like him if only he wouldn't so excessively like her.

  

  Elizabeth von Arnim
  • People
  • Feet
  • Respected

• The great proof of madness is the disproportion of one's designs to one's means.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • Great
  • Madness
  • Proof

• I remember a time when I would hear a band and then want to hear everything that sounded like it; I wanted it to feel like I was tapping into a thing, even if it wasn't.

  

  Alan Palomo
  • Want
  • Band
  • Hear

• See appendix A for a proof that Winston Churchill was a carrot.

  

  Charles Seife
  • Proof
  • Carrot
  • Winston Churchill