Christine Comaford Quotes

The more we can address an issue the moment we perceive it, the calmer and more present we are, and the easier it is for others to follow our lead.

Christine Comaford

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• People speak of the fear of the blank canvas as though it is a temporary hesitation, a trembling moment of self-doubt. For me it was more like being abducted from my bed by a clown, thrust into a circus arena with a wicker chair, and told to tame a pissed-off lion in front of an expectant crowd.

  

  Hannah Kent
  • People
  • Fear
  • Doubt

• Wong Kar-wai and Ang Lee are two Asian directors I'm really fond of.

  

  Bai Ling
  • Two
  • Directors
  • Asian

• The most annoying and full-of-crap thing a writer says is, 'I write only for myself, I don't care if anyone reads it.' A writer without a reader doesn't exist.

  

  Harlan Coben
  • Myself
  • Care
  • Writer

• Living in New York for 10 months was incredible; it was everything I thought it was going to be and more.

  

  Rachel Tucker
  • Thought
  • New York
  • Living

• I just miss - I miss being anonymous.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Being
  • Just
  • Anonymous

• I grew up being into sports and I wasn't trained to move my body in the right way for dancing. I'm the last one to get any moves correct. In rehearsals it's always, 'OK, one more take for Zac.'

  

  Zac Efron
  • Up
  • Sports
  • Body

• I'm not very interested in myself. I do have a deep moral belief that you should always look out at other things and not be self-centred.

  

  A. S. Byatt
  • Myself
  • Deep
  • Moral

• I think sometimes when you play those extra shifts, it gets you into the game a little bit more and gets you a little bit more involved.

  

  Patrick Kane
  • Think
  • Game
  • Sometimes

• Never be in a hurry; do everything quietly and in a calm spirit. Do not lose your inner peace for anything whatsoever, even if your whole world seems upset.

  

  Saint Francis de Sales
  • World
  • Peace
  • Calm

• It feels good when you come to a place like Oklahoma to charge up the batteries. I need that.

  

  Nadia Comaneci
  • Up
  • Good
  • You

• Most of the time I spend looking for the 25th hour in the day, the ninth day in the week, the 32nd day in the month and the 367th, eighth or 70th day in the year because I feel I have a very rich life.

  

  Daniel Barenboim
  • Life
  • Time
  • Day

• Despite what Pope Benedict would have us believe, sex without love can be fucking amazing.

  

  Dan Savage
  • Believe
  • Amazing
  • Sex

• Resolved to die in the last dike of prevarication.

  

  Edmund Burke
  • Die

• Only straight discovering in the nearest stone or tree, sound or thought, the shelter of His often desecrated goodness, the treasury of His waiting form man's heart to affiliate with His will - this is the rapture of faith. It is an echo to a pleading voice, a reply to the inconceivable in all beauty.

  

  Abraham Joshua Heschel
  • Heart
  • Faith
  • Waiting

• We do not want a religion that deceives us for our own good.

  

  Arthur Eddington
  • Good

• Ironically, I think some of the inspiration around Stitch Fix is really what was great about stores in the heyday of stores.

  

  Katrina Lake
  • Great
  • Inspiration

• Even those who don't believe in climate change believe we should develop renewable energy. Americans get it: it's time. This is not controversial. It's actually right in the wheelhouse of American business.

  

  Marshall Herskovitz
  • Time
  • Believe
  • Business

• Birds the more white, against green streamBlooms burst to flame, against blue hillsI glance, the spring is gone again.What day, what day, can I go home?

  

  Du Fu
  • Home
  • Green
  • Blue

• People look at me like I'm a little strange, when I go around talking to squirrels and rabbits and stuff. That's ok. That's just ok.

  

  Bob Ross
  • People
  • Stuff
  • Strange

• It is widely assumed, contrary to fact, that theism necessarily involves the two assumptions which cannot be squared with the existence of so much suffering, and that therefore, per impossibile, they simply have to be squared with the existence of all this suffering, somehow.

  

  Walter Kaufmann
  • Suffering
  • Two
  • Assumptions

• An overcrowded world is the ideal place in which to be lonely.

  

  Brian Aldiss
  • World
  • Lonely

• It would be a wonderful experience to stand there in those enchanted surroundings and hear Shakespeare and Milton and Bunyan read from their noble works. And it might be that they would like to hear me read some of my things. No, it could never be; they would not care for me. They would not know me, they would not understand me, and they would say they had an engagement. But if I could only be there, and walk about and look, and listen, I should be satisfied and not make a noise. My life is fading to its close, and someday I shall know.

  

  George Woodward Warder
  • Read
  • Works
  • Surroundings

• The more we can address an issue the moment we perceive it, the calmer and more present we are, and the easier it is for others to follow our lead.

  

  Christine Comaford
  • Present
  • Issue
  • Perceive