Edmond Jabes Quotes

In the morning, you tear up the pages of your fever, but every word naturally leads you back to its color, its night.

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• Well Sid Pollack was... He was I would say probably, probably the most influential on me.

  

  Dabney Coleman
  • Me
  • Say
  • Well

• God is not something I think about but something I experience as an energy, a Presence. I do find it easier to pray to a female Presence or an androgynous Presence.

  

  Olympia Dukakis
  • God
  • Experience
  • Energy

• Music is pretty intimate stuff and I can only work with very few people: Gonzalez being one, Mocky being another and, on a completely different level, Broken Social Scene. With Broken Social Scene it's not one-on-one, it's a one-on-12. It's very healthy, very comfortable, like a big pot luck supper among old friends.

  

  Feist
  • People
  • Work
  • Music

• The idea of it becomes a little freaky if you're dealing with someone who has trouble differentiating between fantasy and reality, but that's a concern no matter what kind of movie you're dealing with.

  

  Adam Arkin
  • Movie
  • Reality
  • Kind

• I had a lot of vocal problems when I was younger. I don't know if it's down to leading a healthier lifestyle or what but my range has increased.

  

  Jack Bruce Cream
  • Know
  • Problems
  • Down

• What is interesting about me isn't that I am a mother, it is who I am. I love my family, but if I just talk to you about being a mother, it's boring. I am sorry, but it's reducing who I really am, and it's really boring.

  

  Laetitia Casta
  • Family
  • Love
  • Mother

• I do listen to Abba. And a lot of '80s and '90s pop music.

  

  Camilla Lackberg
  • Music
  • Listen
  • Pop Music

• Male athletes don't get dropped when they father kids.

  

  Candace Parker
  • Kids
  • Father
  • Athletes

• God screens us evermore from premature ideas.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • God
  • Ideas
  • U.S.

• Most of the more celebrated names among African-American authors, poets, and artists are known to the world because of their association with specific cultural arts movements.

  

  Aberjhani
  • World
  • American
  • African-American

• By the time I came out, that kind of stopped it. The bullying stopped when I claimed myself and proved that I wasn't afraid. A lot of it was when I was hiding when I was younger.

  

  Randy Harrison
  • Time
  • Myself
  • Bullying

• You don't want to trash what you've done; that's your history.

  

  Pat Benatar
  • Done
  • History
  • Want

• I'm a fun-loving guy. We are basically from Amritsar and ours is a chilled-out family. I think I have got my humour from my mother.

  

  Kapil Sharma
  • Family
  • Fun
  • Mother

• I'm playing a very strong character, it's the story of the woman Polish Jews out of the Warsaw ghetto. I've just begun my weapons training and the SAS type training that's getting me fit.

  

  Sadie Frost
  • Character
  • Strong
  • Training

• The mercy of the West has been social revolution; the mercy of the East has been individual insight into the basic self/void. We need both.

  

  Gary Snyder
  • Revolution
  • Mercy

• Pleasers … make up what Earl Shorris has called 'the oppressed middle,' the middle-managers who enjoy 'the comforts of fearful people' and pay by submitting to their superiors’ definitions of happiness and success.

  

  Sam Keen
  • People
  • Up
  • Success

• Trust nobody, TRUST NO BODY.

  

  Tupac Shakur
  • Trust
  • Nobody

• Some problems are so complex that you have to be highly intelligent and well informed just to be undecided about them.

  

  Laurence J. Peter
  • Intelligent

• There are items that have far superior quality when manufactured in space, but need to be returned to Earth to be purchased and used by customers.

  

  Dylan Taylor
  • Earth
  • Space
  • Quality

• I think I've learned how to be a better boss. I'm the one running the show now, and in the past, I've always kind of been looking at other people to make the decisions. I feel more confident to run not just my show, but behind the scenes, too.

  

  Maren Morris
  • People
  • Past
  • Running

• I have grown up in the bright light of America.

  

  John Edwards
  • Up
  • America
  • Light

• The challenge of pollution and global warming is no longer the science, or the rate of innovation, but the rate of implementation: We have the clean solutions; now let's bundle them and install them.

  

  Jens Martin Skibsted
  • Science
  • Challenge
  • Innovation

• The typographic lore of school children points to the gap between the scribal and typographic man. (p. 103)

  

  Marshall McLuhan
  • Children
  • School

• In the morning, you tear up the pages of your fever, but every word naturally leads you back to its color, its night.

  

  Edmond Jabes
  • Night
  • Morning
  • Color