Elaine Scarry Quotes
This willingness continually to revise one's own location in order to place oneself in the path of beauty is the basic impulse underlying education.
Quotes to Explore
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The only thing that matters is what happens on the little hump out in the middle of the field.
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Maybe I fear things going wrong so much that I pre-empt them by not getting excited about them when they appear to be. going well.
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One can never know enough. The unknown and its call lies even in what we know.
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Everything ultimately becomes the CEO's problem, no matter where it starts. I can see why some CEOs crack under the pressure.
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A lot of people go in and have to create their own characters, and they do fine with it.
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We are not saints, but we have kept our appointment. How many people can boast as much?
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People say I'm extravagant because I want to be surrounded by beauty. But tell me, who wants to be surrounded by garbage?
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The fundamental thing about my personality is that I think I'm an imposter.
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I have this first album that sells more than 100,000 copies in its first week, debuts at number two, goes gold, the single goes platinum, we're doing Madison Square Garden.
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My journey has been that of a character actor.
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I never felt popular as a child and never had best friends.
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Do you love me because I'm beautiful, or am I beautiful because you love me?
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My favorite sport, frankly, is college football. I'm a college football junkie, even though I'm associated with golf and like golf and have played it all my life.
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Make no mistake, adolescence is a war. No one gets out unscathed.
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The sound principle of a topsy-turvy lifestyle in the framework of an upside-down world order has stood every test.
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Well I think they broke the mould when they made me and being humble is one of my great assets.
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L.A. is my office. I come here for work and work only.
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I don't eat when I'm working. If I start to fridge-raid, I'm in trouble.
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I'm a Sikh; it's part of my religious tradition to never cut my hair and keep it wrapped in a turban.
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Good satire comes from anger. It comes from a sense of injustice, that there are wrongs in the world that need to be fixed. And what better place to get that well of venom and outrage boiling than a newsroom, because you're on the front lines.
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I think that's what all New Zealanders who are fair-minded want - a good chance for everybody to get ahead, whether it's education or housing.
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This willingness continually to revise one's own location in order to place oneself in the path of beauty is the basic impulse underlying education.
