Elizabeth Kolbert Quotes

On the birther movement: Here we are, quadrillions of bytes deep into the Information Age. And yet information, it seems, has never mattered less.

Elizabeth Kolbert

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• Do not follow vain desires; for verily he who prospers is preserved from lust, greed and anger.

  

  Abu Bakr
  • Anger
  • Greed
  • Follow

• The world we live in is vastly different from the world we think we live in.

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  • World
  • Different
  • Live

• Once the kids are in school, it's amazing what you can do.

  

  Laura Schlessinger
  • School
  • Kids
  • You

• I've tried to show in my most recent book, the 'Irresistible Fairytale', that in order to talk about any genre, particularly what we call simple genre - a myth, a legend, an anecdote, a tall tale, and so on - we really have to understand something about the origin of stories all together.

  

  Jack Zipes
  • Book
  • Together
  • Simple

• Throughout human history, the apostles of purity, those who have claimed to possess a total explanation, have wrought havoc among mere mixed-up human beings.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Up
  • History
  • Human

• I would love to direct - or try my hand at it, anyway.

  

  Caitriona Balfe
  • Hand
  • Try
  • Direct

• I know that I will never find my father in any other man who comes into my life, because it is a void in my life that can only be filled by him.

  

  Halle Berry
  • Life
  • Father
  • Man

• I want to be creative in as many different environments as possible, whether it's doing film scores, writing for TV ads or video games - all sorts of stuff, as long as it requires writing music.

  

  Flume
  • Music
  • Different
  • Long

• I don't like to talk about myself.

  

  Zlatan Ibrahimovic
  • Myself
  • Like
  • Talk

• We estimated that we could make one of four cylinders with 4 inch bore and 4 inch stroke, weighing not over two hundred pounds, including all accessories.

  

  Orville Wright
  • Two
  • Over
  • Accessories

• Growing up in Fife, you were aware that there were these creatures called lesbians, but it was in the realms of complete freakishness. And I didn't feel like a freak.

  

  Val McDermid
  • Up
  • Growing
  • Feel

• I like guys who drive trucks.

  

  Inga Cadranel
  • Like
  • Guys
  • Drive

• I sure can't do television. The screen is only 24 inches. How are they ever gonna get someone like me in that little box?

  

  John Matuszak

• The only righteousness that meets the requirements of the Law is the righteousness of Christ.

  

  R. C. Sproul
  • Law
  • Christ
  • Righteousness

• I jump from one thing to the next but try and strike a balance. But it's not nostalgic in the sense of 'those were the good old days and now we're not there'. I don't think like that. Not my way.

  

  Ian MacKaye
  • Good
  • Thinking
  • Trying

• The revolution of ideas that will save us is a revolution of goodwill, of compassion, and of higher thinking. I believe that they outnumber the people who would choose fear. But they are not a particularly politicized force. If you look at the numbers of people buying books about revolutions from within and personal transformation as the key to global change, the numbers add up to a much greater audience than most people realize.

  

  Marianne Williamson
  • People
  • Up
  • Believe

• There is movement -- movement in the right direction

  

  Igor Ivanov
  • Movement
  • Direction

• For any movement to emerge, it has to be innovatively independent from the mainstream cinema, and I don't see that much.

  

  Haile Gerima
  • Independent
  • Movement
  • Cinema

• Public art existed all along, but ecological art just naturally grew out of my thinking and writings in that area for years. I didn't get involved in it; I started what then became a movement.

  

  Agnes Denes
  • Art
  • Movement
  • Involved

• Most people don't know me, that is why they write such things in which most is not true. I cry very very often because it hurts and I worry about the children, all my children all over the world, I live for them.

  

  Michael Jackson
  • People
  • Things
  • Write

• You have to write a book because you believe it has helped you, because you believe it has helped others personally and you are dying to share with it others because you know it will add value to their lives. You write it for them like a gift. You don't want anything from them. You don't want them to do anything for you. You don't even care if they all share the book with their friends, they don't all have to buy them. You're just dying to share this idea with people. Your challenge is to write it in a way that is compelling, enjoyable to read so that they will get the idea.

  

  Simon Sinek
  • People
  • Believe
  • Writing

• On the birther movement: Here we are, quadrillions of bytes deep into the Information Age. And yet information, it seems, has never mattered less.

  

  Elizabeth Kolbert
  • Movement
  • Mattered
  • Information Age