Edmund de Waal Quotes

I liked the way that repetition wears things smooth, and there was something of the river stone to Iggie’s stories.

Edmund de Waal

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• Stand-up comedy is an art form and it dies unless you expand it.

  

  Sam Kinison
  • Up
  • Art
  • You

• When I chased after money, I never had enough. When I got my life on purpose and focused on giving of myself and everything that arrived into my life, then I was prosperous.

  

  Wayne Dyer
  • Life
  • Money
  • Giving

• It is a sad but undeniable reality that people have died in the line of duty since the earliest days of the United Nations. The first was Ole Bakke, a Norwegian member of the United Nations guard detachment, shot and killed in Palestine in 1948. The toll since then has included colleagues at all levels.

  

  Ban Ki-moon
  • People
  • Reality
  • Sad

• You're an enormous sponge and everything goes in there and you squeeze it out in songs, I guess. And if you're a painter, you squeeze them out on to a canvas.

  

  Feist
  • You
  • Everything
  • Canvas

• There is nothing more difficult to define than an aphorism.

  

  Umberto Eco
  • Difficult
  • Nothing
  • Define

• Always leave something to wish for; otherwise you will be miserable from your very happiness.

  

  Baltasar Gracian
  • You
  • Wish
  • Happiness

• Our responsibility as artists is to challenge ourselves.

  

  Dan Butler
  • Responsibility
  • Challenge

• I'm really focusing now on how I can get to the next level as a batsman. How can I get even more competitive? How can I get even more consistent? How can I get better?

  

  Sachin Tendulkar
  • Better
  • Now
  • Competitive

• I wouldn't know a space-time continuum or warp core breach if they got into bed with me.

  

  Patrick Stewart
  • Time
  • Know
  • Me

• People lament that there's no roles being written for South Asian or Muslim characters. But their parents don't want their children to go into the entertainment field. You don't get it both ways.

  

  Aasif Mandvi
  • People
  • Children
  • Parents

• Acting - you're taking someone else's visions and someone else's inspirations, and it's up to you to portray that to everyone watching the film.

  

  Cameron Dallas
  • Up
  • You
  • Acting

• I have one idea of how to get more Democratic women to polling stations: Stand up for them.

  

  Laura Moser
  • Up
  • Women
  • Stand

• Jesus Christ raised women above the condition of mere slaves, mere ministers to the passions of the man, raised them by His sympathy, to be Ministers of God. He gave them moral activity. But the Age, the World, Humanity, must give them the means to exercise this moral activity, must give them intellectual cultivation, spheres of action.

  

  Florence Nightingale
  • World
  • God
  • Women

• He was always there when I needed him and someone I could talk too and argue with. In a Freudian way he was the father I never had. For me, partners were like father figures most of the time.

  Nastassja Kinski
  • Time
  • Father

• It is well-known that the friend of a conqueror is but the last victim.

  

  Isaac Asimov
  • Friend

• He abandonado la indigente necesidad de vivir. Vivo sin ella.

  

  Antonio Porchia

• I queued 24 hours to see Coldplay, at Koko in London, at the start of the X&Y tour.

  

  Ben Lovett Mumford & Sons

• I'm not a big fan of the post-Armageddon stories, where Denzel Washington is walking around in a torn coat.

  

  Albert Brooks
  • Walking

• After he routed Pharnaces Ponticus at the first assault, he wrote thus to his friends: 'I came, I saw, I conquered.'

  

  Plutarch
  • Friends

• The reason to go public is that it is a massive branding, marketing, credibility, trust-building exercise with your customers, and then it allows you to consolidate power and scale and market share. Do we want to be a huge company with a huge impact? If the answer to that is yes, the only way that that happens is by going public. It is effectively a branding event that catalyzes interest. It helps with recruiting, it helps with marketing, it helps with sales. It just helps on many dimensions. I think it's basically a litmus test for the CEO's ambition.

  

  Chamath Palihapitiya
  • Reason
  • Exercise
  • Helping

• Suspense is very important. Even though this is humor and they're short stories, that theory of building suspense is still there.

  

  Sergio Aragones
  • Important
  • Stories
  • Building

• Stories heal us because we become whole through them. In the process of writing, of discovering our story, we restore those parts of ourselves that have been scattered, hidden, suppressed, denied, distorted, forbidden, and we come to understand that stories heal.

  

  Deena Metzger
  • Stories
  • Heal
  • Discovering

• I liked the way that repetition wears things smooth, and there was something of the river stone to Iggie’s stories.

  

  Edmund de Waal
  • Stories
  • River
  • Repetition