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

• Our lives will never be the same without him.

  

  Bob Denver
  • Lives

• 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

• Make [food] simple and let things taste of what they are.

  

  Curnonsky
  • Simple
  • Things
  • They

• Thank you to the world for being a wild and inspiring place, full of odd creatures, strange people, and mysterious cities. I hope by and by to know you better.

  

  Laini Taylor
  • People
  • World
  • Hope

• I am human because God made me. I experience suffering and temptation because mankind chose to follow Satan. God is reaching out to me to rescue me. I am learning to trust Him, learning to live by His precepts that I might be preserved.

  

  Donald Miller
  • God
  • Live
  • Experience

• It is impossible to overlook the extent to which civilization is built upon a renunciation of instinct.

  

  Sigmund Freud
  • Civilization
  • Built
  • Overlook

• 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