Elia Suleiman Quotes

Silence can be intimidating, sometimes provocative, sometimes a form of resistance because it dislocates.

Elia Suleiman

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• Strict conservation of energy in the elementary process had thus been confirmed also by a negative experiment.

  

  Walther Bothe
  • Energy
  • Process
  • Negative

• As a costume designer, I first try to figure out what the character's economic situation is and hit the stores they'd shop.

  

  Patricia Norris
  • Character
  • Situation
  • Try

• The good people look for challenges. When teaching becomes a prestigious profession, then you'll get good people.

  

  Dan Shechtman
  • People
  • Good
  • Challenges

• I'd love to have a 19th Century Russian book club where all the members had to act like the pretentious minor noblemen they were reading about.

  

  Gary Shteyngart
  • Book
  • Reading
  • Club

• In particular, I found praying very disturbing, like swimming with bricks tied to your feet. And yet I was drawn to it constantly.

  

  Jack Dee
  • Feet
  • Swimming
  • Bricks

• Actors and directors work on things together. That's how I like to work, anyway. I don't want to be told what to do. I want to share it with someone and work it out together.

  

  Felicity Jones
  • Work
  • Together
  • Want

• To represent a country, qualify for the World Cup, and get a team to perform at the right moment in time would be great honour for me.

  

  Ottmar Hitzfeld
  • Time
  • World
  • Great

• There are hurts so deep that one cannot reach them or heal them with words.

  

  Kate Seredy
  • Words
  • Deep
  • Reach

• You are only three or four hours from taking your glasses off for keeps.

  

  L. Ron Hubbard

• The reform of a college English department cuts no ice down at the corner garage.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • College
  • English

• There was a story that some EMI execs had come down to see you and you'd said something like: 'Here's what I've been working on,' and then produced some cakes from your oven. True? 'No! I don't know where that came from. I thought that was quite funny actually. It presents me as this homely creature, which is all right, isn't it?'

  

  Kate Bush
  • True
  • Funny

• Listen to them. Children of the night, what music they make.

  

  Garrett Fort
  • Music
  • Children
  • Night

• Lying on my hotel bed, mesmerized by the lazy turns of the ceiling fan, I pondered the possibility that I was nuts. It wasn’t unheard of, even in the days of the Bitchun Society, and even though there were cures, they weren’t pleasant.

  

  Cory Doctorow
  • Society
  • Lazy

• I'm not always in a full face of make-up! That's actually one of the things I like about make-up - that you can strip it away and show your vulnerability.

  

  Dita Von Teese
  • Up
  • Vulnerability

• The nation can no longer afford to continue policies that hasten the flight of persons to the distant suburbs.

  

  Jane Byrne

• I often work and write in coffee shops, observing the baristas and eavesdropping on interesting conversations.

  

  Christina Baker Kline
  • Work
  • Interesting
  • Coffee

• When I talk to youngsters today, especially those involved in athletics, I tell them to get their education first.

  

  Ken Norton
  • Today
  • Education

• It's so hard to cover Trump. What Trump says, what he feels, what he thinks changes from day to day.

  

  David Fahrenthold
  • Trump

• War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things: the decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks nothing worth a war, is worse. A war to protect other human beings against tyrannical injustice; a war to give victory to their own ideas of right and good, and which is their own war, carried on for an honest purpose by their own free choice - is often the means of their regeneration.

  

  John Stuart Mill
  • Choice
  • Human being
  • Injustice

• Let the attitude of your life be a continual willingness to "go out" in dependence upon God, and your life will have a sacred and inexpressible charm about it that is very satisfying to Jesus. You must learn to "go out" through your convictions, creeds, or experiences until you come to the point in your faith where there is nothing between yourself and God.

  

  Oswald Chambers
  • Life
  • God
  • Faith

• If people only made prudent marriages, what a stop to population there would be!

  

  William Makepeace Thackeray
  • People
  • Made
  • Population

• Grieving is like being ill. You think the entire world revolves around you and it doesn't.

  

  Sue Grafton
  • Thinking
  • Grieving

• To be a prisoner means to be defined as a member of a group for whom the rules of what can be done to you, of what is seen as abuse of you, are reduced as part of the definition of your status.

  

  Catharine MacKinnon
  • Mean
  • Abuse
  • Groups

• Silence can be intimidating, sometimes provocative, sometimes a form of resistance because it dislocates.

  

  Elia Suleiman
  • Silence
  • Resistance
  • Provocative