Elaine Scarry Quotes

The room...is converted into a weapon, ... made to demonstrate that everything is a weapon, the objects themselves, and with them the fact of civilization, are annihilated: there is no wall, no window, no door, no bathtub, no refrigerator, no door, no chair, no bed.

Elaine Scarry

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• Drugs, were a symptom - they weren't the cause of anything.

  

  Wayne Kramer
  • Anything
  • Cause
  • Symptom

• I have never pressurized a producer to do me any favor.

  

  Kabir Bedi
  • Me
  • Never
  • Producer

• A man in debt is so far a slave.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Money
  • Man
  • Debt

• If you think technology can solve your security problems, then you don't understand the problems and you don't understand the technology.

  

  Bruce Schneier
  • Technology

• It makes one’s head heavy and giddy, as if one were not looking back down the receding perspectives of time but rather down on the earth from a great height, from one of those towers whose tops are lost to view in the clouds

  

  W. G. Sebald
  • Time
  • Great
  • Earth

• It's not unusual for writers to look backward. Because that's your pool of resources. If you were to write something now, I bet there's a pretty good chance you'd call on your teenage years, your experiences then, stuff you learned then.

  

  Paul McCartney The Beatles
  • Good
  • Writing
  • Pretty

• For all of us, whether we walk old paths or blaze new trails, friends remain important.

  

  Lois Wyse
  • Important
  • Friends
  • Path

• There was even a recurrent idea in America about an education that would leave out history and the past, that should be a sort of equipment for aerial adventure, weighed down by none of the stowaways of inheritance or tradition.

  

  F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • America
  • History
  • Past

• If our dreams can last, then we could turn our time and place to gold.

  

  B. W. Powe
  • Time
  • Dream
  • Gold

• Ginny came in to visit while you were unconscious", he said, after a long pause, and Harry's imagination zoomed into overdrive, rapidly constructing a scene in which Ginny, weeking over his lifeless form, confessed her feelings of deep attraction to him while Ron gave them his blessing.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • Long
  • Imagination
  • Deep

• In home life contentment is an essential to daily comfort. One discontented person in the house creates an atmosphere fatal to tranquillity.

  

  Margaret Elizabeth Sangster
  • Life
  • Home
  • House

• Love is, without question life's greatest experience.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • Life
  • Experience
  • Question

• Write a list of ways that you have benefited from being married to your spouse. Then write a list of your spouse's positive patterns and qualities. Keep adding to the lists and reread them frequently.

  

  Zelig Pliskin
  • Positive

• Apply just the right amount of force — never too much, never too little.

  

  Kano Jigoro
  • Force
  • Littles
  • Too Much

• Humans struggle to remain attuned to one another - they want to turn away because of fear, or ambition, or boredom, or some lure of the ego. It's difficult. It requires radical vulnerability, radical risk.

  

  C.E. Morgan
  • Fear
  • Risk
  • Struggle

• Every poem can be considered in two ways--as what the poet has to say, and as a thing which he makes.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Way
  • Two
  • Poet

• But how could you live and have no story to tell?

  

  Fyodor Dostoevsky
  • Live
  • Story
  • Tell

• Having your work in a museum is something we as artists aspire to, but I don't think that's something we need to worry about while we're alive.

  

  Eric Drooker
  • Worry
  • Artists
  • Museum

• Linguistically, and hence conceptually, the things in sharpest focus are the things that are public enough to be talked of publicly, common and conspicuous enough to be talked of often, and near enough to sense to be quickly identified and learned by name; it is to these that words apply first and foremost.

  

  Willard Van Orman Quine
  • Focus
  • Language
  • Enough

• Our civilization survives in the complacency of cowardly or malignant minds -- a sacrifice to the vanity of aging adolescents.

  

  Albert Camus
  • Civilization
  • Vanity
  • Survives

• Failure was being used as a weapon, rather than as an agent of learning.

  

  Edwin Catmull
  • Learning
  • Failure
  • Weapon

• The room...is converted into a weapon, ... made to demonstrate that everything is a weapon, the objects themselves, and with them the fact of civilization, are annihilated: there is no wall, no window, no door, no bathtub, no refrigerator, no door, no chair, no bed.

  

  Elaine Scarry
  • Civilization
  • Weapon
  • Demonstrate