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.

Elaine Scarry

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• The only thing that matters is what happens on the little hump out in the middle of the field.

  

  Earl Weaver
  • Little
  • Matters
  • Field

• 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.

  

  Jack Dee
  • Fear
  • Excited
  • Maybe

• One can never know enough. The unknown and its call lies even in what we know.

  

  Eduardo Chillida
  • Know
  • Never
  • Lies

• Everything ultimately becomes the CEO's problem, no matter where it starts. I can see why some CEOs crack under the pressure.

  

  Yishan Wong
  • Why
  • Problem
  • Matter

• A lot of people go in and have to create their own characters, and they do fine with it.

  

  D. B. Weiss
  • People
  • Create
  • Go

• We are not saints, but we have kept our appointment. How many people can boast as much?

  

  Samuel Beckett
  • People
  • Saints
  • Appointment

• People say I'm extravagant because I want to be surrounded by beauty. But tell me, who wants to be surrounded by garbage?

  

  Imelda Marcos
  • People
  • Me
  • Beauty

• The fundamental thing about my personality is that I think I'm an imposter.

  

  Sally Mann
  • Think
  • Personality
  • I Think

• 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.

  

  Halsey
  • Single
  • Doing
  • Gold

• My journey has been that of a character actor.

  

  Harry Carey, Jr.
  • Character
  • Journey
  • Actor

• I never felt popular as a child and never had best friends.

  

  Rachel Stevens
  • Friends
  • Best
  • Child

• Do you love me because I'm beautiful, or am I beautiful because you love me?

  

  Oscar Hammerstein II
  • Love
  • Beautiful
  • Me

• I have never had a man give me money. I've always been the provider. I have always been the one who went out and earned, and I've never felt unequal in that way.

  

  Eddi Reader
  • Money
  • Man
  • Me

• I feel like with 'Chuck,' because it was a comedy-based show, it was more cartoon-ish. It was just more playful. We had a lot more fun with it. There was a lot of silliness in there. There were serious moments, as well, and there was a lot of heart in that show, but its baseline was comedy.

  

  Yvonne Strahovski
  • Heart
  • Fun
  • Comedy

• 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.

  

  Dan Jenkins
  • Life
  • College
  • Football

• Make no mistake, adolescence is a war. No one gets out unscathed.

  

  Harlan Coben
  • War
  • Mistake
  • Adolescence

• When people don't have any curiosity about themselves, that is always a bad sign.

  

  Irvin D. Yalom
  • People
  • Bad
  • Curiosity

• The sound principle of a topsy-turvy lifestyle in the framework of an upside-down world order has stood every test.

  

  Karl Kraus
  • World
  • Sound
  • Test

• Inequality saps the economy by draining the buying power of Americans whose incomes have stagnated, forcing them to rely on debt to fund education, housing, and health care.

  

  George Packer
  • Power
  • Education
  • Health

• The inspiration is all in the script, in the text. So whatever it is, either it is a film or a book to be illustrated, anything. Everything you need to know is in the text. So the thing is trying to find right tone and voice, the right style, the right way of expressing the emotions in a story or in the location of the story, but it is all in the text.

  

  Dave McKean
  • Book
  • Inspiration
  • Voice

• Education is so much of an organic unity that, if any of the stages or elements of it be defective, the deficiency is felt throughout all the subsequent growth of the organism.

  

  George Trumbull Ladd
  • Education
  • Growth
  • Felt

• I’m not telling people where to give money, but if there is to be a spotlight shed on me, then I’d like to direct that spotlight onto causes I think are worthy or onto interesting, progressive figures.

  

  Scarlett Johansson
  • Money
  • Interesting
  • Direct

• 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.

  

  Elaine Scarry
  • Education
  • Beauty
  • Location