Zoë Heller (Zoë Kate Hinde Heller) Quotes

It's always a disappointing business confronting my own reflection. My body isn't bad. It's a perfectly nice, serviceable body. It's just that the external me- the study, lightly wrinkled, handbagged me- does so little credit to the stuff that's inside.

Zoë Heller

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• I was 17 when I was forced into marriage. I had no hand in it, and I didn't even enjoy being with the man. Also, I wanted to study, but no one listened to me. I wanted to move forward in life, it wasn't a happy situation. Because of some family problems, I had to stick around.

  

  Qandeel Baloch
  • Life
  • Family
  • Happy

• The problem with writing a monthly book is that you're going through your work like a man running for a bus, red-faced and out of breath. There isn't time for reflection or critical self-examination.

  

  J. Michael Straczynski
  • Time
  • Work
  • Writing

• When you run into something interesting, drop everything else and study it.

  

  B. F. Skinner
  • You
  • Interesting
  • Study

• I can be collaborative, for instance, in situations where I go and study the artist's work before I start writing. Then I can at least try to write towards their style.

  

  Warren Ellis
  • Work
  • Writing
  • Style

• I've seen a study in the last year that digital sound actually induces stress in the listener.

  

  T Bone Burnett
  • Study
  • Stress
  • Year

• Practice radical humility. Take no credit for your talents, intellectual abilities, aptitudes, or proficiencies. Be in a state of awe and bewilderment.

  

  Wayne Dyer
  • Practice
  • Humility
  • Credit

• I guess if you have an original take on life, or something about you is original, you don't have to study people who came before you. You don't have to mimic anybody. You just have a gut feeling inside, an instinct that tells you what's right for you, and you can't do it in any other way.

  

  Barbra Streisand
  • People
  • Life
  • Feeling

• My director is usually aware of what works for me and what doesn't. For 'Srimanthudu,' I have to give full credit to director Koratala Sivagaru for handling my character the way he did.

  

  Mahesh Babu
  • Character
  • Way
  • Works

• Bernie Madoff is probably more nuanced then I'm giving him credit for, but I just couldn't get under his skin.

  

  Patrick deWitt
  • Giving
  • Just
  • Credit

• The study of law left me unsatisfied, because I did not know the aspects of life which it serves. I perceived only the intricate mental juggling with fictions that did not interest me.

  

  Karl Jaspers
  • Life
  • Law
  • Me

• Sidney Poitier and Sidney Lumet were instrumental in helping me get started as the first black composer to get name credit for movie scores.

  

  Quincy Jones
  • Movie
  • Black
  • Name

• I have never known a really chic woman whose appearance was not, in large part, an outward reflection of her inner self.

  

  Mainbocher
  • Woman
  • Self
  • Reflection

• Telling stories has been a compulsion of mine since I could physically say, 'Once upon a time...' But in high school, I realized I could study creative writing in college and actually pursue it as a viable career.

  

  Victoria Aveyard
  • Time
  • Writing
  • School

• I began the study of medicine, impelled by a desire for knowledge of facts and of man. The resolution to do disciplined work tied me to both laboratory and clinic for a long time to come.

  

  Karl Jaspers
  • Time
  • Work
  • Long

• Hip-hop lasted and survived all these years that you have to give it credit. Even though it's not up to people's expectations anymore, its still here, and that's says a lot.

  

  Nas
  • People
  • Up
  • Expectations

• Human nature refers to what is in people but which they cannot study or work at achieving.

  

  Xun Kuang
  • People
  • Work
  • Nature

• I like to study failure, actually. My partner says, 'I want to know where I'll die so I'll never go there.' We want to see what has caused businesses to go bad. The biggest thing that kills them is complacency. ... The danger would always be that you rest on your laurels.

  

  Warren Buffett
  • Bad
  • Die
  • Rest

• Frantic administration of panaceas to the world is certainly discouraged by the reflection that 'this present' might be 'the world's last night'; sober work for the future, within the limits of ordinary morality and prudence, is not.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • World
  • Work
  • Future

• The illustrations in picture books are the first paintings most children see, and because of that, they are incredibly important. What we see and share at that age stays with us for life.

  

  Anthony Browne
  • Life
  • Important
  • Children

• True success is one of the greatest needs. Success is not something you stumble onto or come to by accident. It is something you must sincerely prepare for. Take a good look at successes, and you'll see he same consistent qualities all the time - qualities of one's character that make one strive for a goal with a standard of unmatched excellence.

  

  Reggie Jackson
  • Character
  • Success
  • Excellence

• I cannot stand for more than half an hour in one place.

  

  Lech Walesa

• What shall be said, then, of those who insist upon ignoring the question of slavery as not involved in this deadly feud, and maintain that the only issue is, the support of the government and the preservation of the Union? Surely, they are "fools and blind"; for it is slaveholders alone who have conspired to seize the one, and overturn the other. As long as the enslavement of a single human being is sanctioned in the land, the curse of God will rest upon it.

  

  William Lloyd Garrison
  • Long
  • Support
  • Fool

• It's always a disappointing business confronting my own reflection. My body isn't bad. It's a perfectly nice, serviceable body. It's just that the external me- the study, lightly wrinkled, handbagged me- does so little credit to the stuff that's inside.

  

  Zoë Heller
  • Study
  • Reflection
  • Credit