Elizabeth Kolbert Quotes
The history of life thus consists of ‘long periods of boredom interrupted occasionally by panic.'Elizabeth Kolbert
Quotes to Explore
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If you don't ponder the end of the world on a regular basis, I don't think you're really human.
Edan Lepucki -
Cicero, in his treatise concerning the Nature of the Gods, having said that three Jupiters were enumerated by theologians, adds that the third was of Crete, the son of Saturn, and that his tomb is shown in that island.
Lactantius -
I believe in holiness and sacredness in other people. It doesn't mean that the clouds part and I see God. That's a juvenile way of thinking about it.
Karen Armstrong -
For me, I went from showering at the YMCA in L.A., eating chicken sandwiches and ramen noodles if lucky, and going from couch to couch. I'm a real story. I know the struggle.
Omari Hardwick -
I think it was Elisabeth Shue who said that if you start a movie with a woman seen through a man's eyes, that woman is objectified by him throughout.
Sam Taylor-Johnson -
You will seek not a near but a distant objective, and you will not be satisfied with what you may have done.
A. Lawrence Lowell
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They ought to put out the eyes of painters as they do goldfinches in order that they can sing better.
Pablo Picasso -
I would like people to get a differentiated historical view of Germany.
Barbara Sukowa -
Transcendental meditation is something that can be defined as a means to do what one wants to do in a better way, a right way, for maximum results.
Maharishi Mahesh Yogi -
I used to work for a catering company - I waitressed for Harry Winston events. I remember being so hungry, I would eat when I was supposed to be catering to other people.
Karla Souza -
I write about heartbreak because I like writing about sad things, but I'm writing happy songs, too!
Jackie Evancho -
The challenge to Asia is to discard the dry, meatless bone of mysticism and fatalism.
Ferdinand Marcos
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Frankly, too many women treat their husbands as accessories instead of priorities.
Laura Schlessinger -
visiting Jackson Pollock’s studio: You do not work from nature. This is no good, you will repeat yourself. You work by heart, not from nature. Pollock reacted: 'I am nature
Hans Hofmann -
Writing a log line helps you define - for yourself - the essential elements of the plot. It will also let you know immediately if major components of the plot are missing.
David Macinnis Gill -
One of the problems with hip hop is lack of infrastructure and not being able to control its own course. I don't like that hip hop is full of infantile 35-year-olds. Hip hop cannot afford to be lazy.
Chuck D -
Find your passion. Because with that passion, you can do anything.
Peggy Whitson -
Las Vegas is a very strange place. It's a place of broken dreams.
María Concepción Balboa Buika
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I had no road map for fatherhood; I had no personal history to draw from.
James L. Brooks -
What I would like to do is make sure every primary school child has a library card, so where parents don't get their children library cards, we'll see if we can get schools to step in and make sure that every child has one.
Malorie Blackman -
Northern Sweden holds a special kind of magic. It's cold, lonely, and the people are tough and silent, or so the stereotype says. This is Asa Larsson's home turf and I find as much joy in reading her closely observed descriptions of the environment, as in following her intriguing plots.
Camilla Lackberg -
My idea for Gucci was crazy, but that's the only idea I had. I was sure I'd be fired after the first show.
Alessandro Michele -
The history of life thus consists of ‘long periods of boredom interrupted occasionally by panic.'
Elizabeth Kolbert