Edmond Jabes Quotes

For the writer, discovering the work he will write is both like a miracle and a wound, like the miracle of the wound.

Edmond Jabes

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• I don't think you should always stay calm in a tense situation, because you might not ever confront the problem. Maybe it's better to actually let yourself be tense - and find a solution.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • Problem
  • Yourself
  • Calm

• Initially, I thought problems on how the brain works to be the most interesting. But it was necessary to be practical and concentrate on less obscure matters when I entered Washington State College. Besides, there were no courses given in neurobiology.

  

  Irwin Rose
  • Interesting
  • College
  • Brain

• I was shot in the wrist when I was a kid. Deliberately.

  

  Sam Shepard
  • Kid
  • Shot
  • Wrist

• The funny thing is, I'm not really a big reader, not a big fan of books in the first place.

  

  Macaulay Culkin
  • Funny
  • Place
  • First

• When I'm not near the girl I love, I love the girl I'm near.

  

  E. Y. Harburg
  • Love
  • Girl
  • I Love

• I couldn't believe verse was supposed to be hard. It was a snap for me. I loved Shakespeare.

  

  Ted Lange
  • Believe
  • Me
  • Loved

• I think you can totally be a totally normal kid from the suburbs of Chicago and go off and play shows. It's one of those things that when you go home, you're still the nerd you were when you left, and your parents still get to yell at you about cleaning up your room, and your girlfriend still drags you to the pet store.

  

  Patrick Stump Fall Out Boy
  • Up
  • Home
  • Parents

• I came from the Groundlings Theatre in L.A., and there, you're guaranteed to at least try something out in front of an audience. At 'SNL,' only the best stuff gets picked, and it's taught me a very defined language of comedy. You learn the structure of a joke, which is not something I was very good at beforehand.

  

  Taran Killam
  • Comedy
  • Best
  • Language

• So far as the government is concerned, there is only one holy book, which is the constitution of India. My government will not tolerate or accept any discrimination based on caste, creed and religion.

  

  Narendra Modi
  • Book
  • Government
  • Religion

• I think the deepest problem is between my parents and me. I just don't know if it will ever be the same.

  

  LaToya Jackson
  • Parents
  • Problem
  • Same

• My dream is to live a good life and be loving, be close to God and be a good human being and bring peace to people.

  

  Ziggy Marley
  • People
  • Life
  • Good

• For me especially, I travel a lot, and with the weather change and everything, my skin gets dehydrated very fast.

  

  Gal Gadot
  • Change
  • Travel
  • Weather

• The worst part about being married is when you're not connecting. Your partner is going out the door when you're coming in, and you don't have a chance to debrief on the day. That's the worst.

  

  Patrick Dempsey
  • Day
  • Chance
  • Door

• With His love, you can wake up every day with an attitude of faith and expectancy.

  

  Victoria Osteen
  • Up
  • Love
  • Faith

• Everybody has been saying 'Srimanthudu' is the best film of my career. After watching the film, Dad told me that he's never seen me perform like this. I just couldn't stop myself from crying.

  

  Mahesh Babu
  • Career
  • Me
  • Stop

• Wickedness is always easier than virtue; for it takes the short cut to everything.

  

  Samuel Johnson

• Lifting whole passages from someone else's speeches is not change you can believe in. It's change you can Xerox.

  

  Hillary Clinton
  • Believe
  • Lifting

• If you were the President of the United States or the Queen of England - you couldn't have a person who would be more protective than my mother was for me. Which meant really that I could dare to do all sorts of things.

  

  Maya Angelou
  • Mother
  • President
  • United States

• My secret heroes were Joe Morello, Ray Charles - who is, in my opinion, the most dominant figure in musical history in the 21st century - and Frank Sinatra. Those are my heroes. And as a writer, when Bob Dylan came along, it was a miracle because he gave us all permission to say anything!

  

  J. D. Souther
  • History
  • Opinion
  • Miracle

• Cult writer. It's a weird term because it's complimentary but condescending at the same time.

  

  Dennis Cooper
  • Writer
  • Condescending
  • Complimentary

• A child's world is fresh and new and beautiful, full of wonder and excitement. It is our misfortune that for most of us that clear-eyed vision, that true instinct for what is beautiful, is dimmed and even lost before we reach adulthood.

  

  Rachel Carson
  • World
  • True
  • Beautiful

• Hers was not love lost; it was love denied.

  

  Binnie Kirshenbaum
  • Love
  • Denied

• For the writer, discovering the work he will write is both like a miracle and a wound, like the miracle of the wound.

  

  Edmond Jabes
  • Miracle
  • Writer
  • Discovering