Edmund de Waal Quotes

How objects are handed on is all about story-telling. I am giving you this because I love you. Or because it was given to me. Because I bought it somewhere special. Because you will care for it. Because it will complicate your life. Because it will make someone else envious. There is no easy story in legacy. What is remembered and what is forgotten?

Edmund de Waal

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• I believe in the impossible because no one else does.

  

  Florence Griffith Joyner
  • Believe
  • Impossible

• I personally believe that any country that has a nuclear program should conform to international regulations and should have international regulatory bodies that check to make sure that any nuclear program moves in the right direction.

  

  Abdullah II of Jordan
  • Believe
  • Country
  • Direction

• If listeners aren't carried away to Heaven, I'm failing.

  

  La Monte Young
  • Heaven
  • Communication
  • Away

• I think the British audience might be more open-minded with some of my imagery and weird choices.

  

  Adam Lambert
  • Think
  • Choices
  • Weird

• The first fall of snow is not only an event, it is a magical event. You go to bed in one kind of a world and wake up in another quite different, and if this is not enchantment then where is it to be found?

  

  J. B. Priestley
  • Up
  • World
  • Different

• You learn how to be an individual quick after 15 schools, man. After the first five or six, you realize you're always gonna be the new kid.

  

  Yelawolf
  • Man
  • Always
  • Learn

• Only in a popular war against France... do I see a misfortune.

  

  Ferdinand Lassalle
  • War
  • Popular
  • See

• There's no such thing as too much. If there's too much, then that's a great thing.

  

  Fat Joe
  • Great
  • Too Much
  • Then

• I'm obsessed with those old romance films. I also would love to venture into the silent film world. I think that's extremely compelling and interesting and really relies on the acting, even more so than when you have an actor speaking.

  

  Sami Gayle
  • World
  • Interesting
  • Silent

• When Ignatius understood that God did not wish him to remain at Jerusalem, he began to consider what he should do. The plan he approved and adopted was to enter upon a course of study in order to be better fitted to save souls.

  

  Saint Ignatius
  • God
  • Wish
  • Study

• Our house has a library - it seemed better use of the space than as a dining room! - and I try to spend as much time in there as possible. There's nothing better while reading or writing than to be surrounded by books.

  

  Adam Christopher
  • Time
  • Writing
  • House

• I wasn't making music consciously when I was younger. I was a musician, but that has its own stigmas. Anywhere on the planet, it's one of the more undervalued positions.

  

  Keinan Abdi Warsame
  • Music
  • More
  • Planet

• I always like to look at things and think, 'Would I be proud to bring my grandma and grandpa to come see me in this?' And if I wouldn't want them to see it, then it's not something that I should immortalize myself on film in.

  

  Rachel Skarsten
  • Want
  • Film
  • Grandma

• I think I was very lucky to have grown up with an artist's studio in the house. It was a kind of life that was possible. Yeah, it made it kind of harder because the standards were higher, but there was no pressure.

  

  Caio Fonseca
  • Life
  • Up
  • House

• When I was 17, I had an experience that I later learned could be called a 'mystical experience.' It was almost violent. No faces, voices, nothing like that. It is like the world burst and flamed into life all around me. That is not a great image, but it is as good as I will ever do.

  

  Barbara Ehrenreich
  • Life
  • World
  • Good

• Romantic Orientalism was fascinated by the color and excitement of a powerful culture, and nearly always approached its subject with love.

  

  Kage Baker
  • Love
  • Culture
  • Powerful

• I am neither the handsomest nor the richest nor the most powerful, but I've had the greatest women in the world.

  

  Oleg Cassini
  • World
  • Women
  • Powerful

• Another car is not going to help me out, a nicer car, I've already got it. A bigger house ain't gonna do anything for me, and you know, a yacht, it's not going to do anything for me anymore. So how can I find happiness?

  

  Vanilla Ice
  • Help
  • House
  • Me

• I just want to write a great lyric and write a great song, and everything else is icing on the cake.

  

  Isaac Hanson Hanson
  • Great
  • Song
  • Lyric

• What we do with our lives every day, whether at school, a desk job, or keeping the home in order, is our most basic opportunity to glorify God. That's what your role in His story looks like day in and day out. Instead of waiting to be offered a new role, play the current one well.

  

  Trip Lee
  • Home
  • Opportunity
  • Waiting

• Human beings are definitely changing the planet, but how much impact they are having on climate, I don't know and I don't care.

  

  Felix Dennis
  • Know
  • Care
  • Impact

• We are going to have to make some very difficult choices, because state government cannot continue to spend more than it takes in.

  

  Larry Hogan
  • Government
  • Choices
  • More

• Human society is like an arch, kept from falling by the mutual pressure of its parts

  

  Seneca the Younger
  • Humans
  • Pressure
  • Mutual

• How objects are handed on is all about story-telling. I am giving you this because I love you. Or because it was given to me. Because I bought it somewhere special. Because you will care for it. Because it will complicate your life. Because it will make someone else envious. There is no easy story in legacy. What is remembered and what is forgotten?

  

  Edmund de Waal
  • Care
  • Remembered
  • Storytelling