Elaine Scarry Quotes

The generation is unceasing. Beauty, as both Plato’s Symposium and everyday life confirm, prompts the begetting of children: when the eye sees someone beautiful, the whole body wants to reproduce the person.

Elaine Scarry

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• Only when you are aware of the uniqueness of everyone's individual body will you begin to have a sense of your own self-worth.

  

  Ma Jian
  • Body
  • Individual
  • Self-Worth

• Disciples be damned. It's not interesting. It's only the masters that matter. Those who create.

  

  Pablo Picasso
  • Interesting
  • Matter
  • Create

• I've always been an underdog. I feel like I beat the odds.

  

  J. Cole
  • Always
  • Feel
  • Underdog

• Technology has enabled government to have investigative and situational awareness on a scale and scope that were science fiction when the Stasi shut its doors.

  

  Yochai Benkler
  • Science
  • Technology
  • Doors

• Time will tell how you rate against the rest of the competition. I'll let everyone else worry about championships. I'm going to worry about qualifying at Pomona.

  

  Larry Dixon
  • Time
  • Rest
  • Worry

• I liked the people at Brown, while I really disliked most of the fellow students I had met at Northwestern.

  

  Ira Glass
  • People
  • Students
  • Brown

• I had so much fun doing Django, and I love westerns so much that after I taught myself how to make one, it's like, 'OK, now let me make another one now that I know what I'm doing.'

  

  Quentin Tarantino
  • Love
  • Fun
  • Myself

• I love girl power.

  

  Pam Bondi
  • Love
  • Power
  • Girl

• There are so many people that say they are actors and they don't spend for 5 minutes a day working on their craft. You need to train and need to take classes to keep your tools sharp. I'm always in class, whether it's theater or drama workshops.

  

  Ian Ziering
  • People
  • Day
  • Drama

• We criticize, copy, patronize, idolize and insult but we never doubt that the U.S. has a unique position in the history of human hopes.

  

  Ferdinand Mount
  • History
  • Doubt
  • Unique

• The truth is we just have a normal life, because we do have a church where our children are growing up pastor's children. And we just try to keep it really normal.

  

  Victoria Osteen
  • Life
  • Up
  • Children

• I'm not here to perform. I'm here to sign autographs. You have to wait till I come back with my own hand.

  

  Ace Frehley Kiss
  • Here
  • Perform
  • Autographs

• I had to do something for the country.

  

  Hanoi Hannah
  • Country
  • Something
  • Had

• I feel like actors, having spent a lot of time on movie sets, tend to make decent directors, because they've been there, they know what they're doing, they've seen it done right, they've seen it done wrong, and they feel comfortable. There's not a lot of chin-scratching and wondering what your next move is.

  

  C. Thomas Howell
  • Time
  • Done
  • Movie

• I don't get dressed up every day. I'm very busy. I get really annoyed when people talk about me as a 'fashionista.' I get dressed up when I have to go out. Most of the time, I'm running around in jeans.

  

  Iris Apfel
  • People
  • Up
  • Time

• You tell it that it's indicative by appending $!. That's why we made $! such a short variable name, after all.

  

  Larry Wall
  • Why

• The high-rise was a huge machine designed to serve, not the collective body of tenants, but the individual resident in isolation.

  

  J. G. Ballard
  • High

• There are a lot of people getting killed by guns in our country for reasons, from my understanding, that are preventable. So many guns that are left loaded, unlocked. So you can educate. That doesn't seem to be too controversial - education.

  

  Jeff Bridges
  • People
  • Country
  • Education

• Thank you to Dr. Dre, Ice Cube, Universal Studios, and the Grammys for telling the story of what Compton was and is becoming.

  

  Aja Brown

• I think my best work has been in France with great men. It's been my great fortune to work with really great men - with Olivier Assayas, Raoul Ruiz, Jacques Rivette. I am tutored by them.

  

  Emmanuelle Beart
  • Work
  • Great
  • Men

• 'Sesame Street's' genius lies in finding gentle ways to talk about hard things - death, divorce, danger - in terms that children understand and accept.

  

  Nancy Gibbs
  • Children
  • Death
  • Lies

• When I was on 'Dallas,' I was known to audiences of the '80s. And then when my sons, who are in their 30s now, were going to college, 'Dallas' was the cult thing to watch because it was being done on the soap channels, so a whole new generation saw it. And then I have the young fans that knew me from 'Step By Step' in the '90s.

  

  Patrick Duffy
  • College
  • Young
  • Fans

• The generation is unceasing. Beauty, as both Plato’s Symposium and everyday life confirm, prompts the begetting of children: when the eye sees someone beautiful, the whole body wants to reproduce the person.

  

  Elaine Scarry
  • Children
  • Generation
  • Reproduce