Elizabeth Kolbert Quotes

These days every wild place has, to one degree or another, been cut into and cut off.

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• There was Pauline de Rothschild, who I thought was very fabulous, and Millicent Rogers, the Standard Oil heiress, very chic, very clever, very original. I admired both those women very much. And I had a great example with my mother, who was extremely chic.

  

  Iris Apfel
  • Great
  • Women
  • Mother

• I've always loved writing, and the impulse for me is storytelling. I don't sit down and think: 'What political message can I sell?' I love the creativity of it.

  

  Randa Abdel-Fattah
  • Writing
  • Love
  • Political

• I've never tried to be something I'm not.

  

  Vincent D'Onofrio
  • Never
  • Something
  • Tried

• I would not hesitate to vote for a white person as president if I thought he was the best person for the job.

  

  Oliver Tambo
  • Job
  • Best
  • Thought

• I train as hard as I can every time I train and I do extra training every day and I've done that since I was a young boy.

  

  Wayne Rooney
  • Time
  • Done
  • Day

• There's never been a time in history, no matter what the public thinks, when actors have been paid more than they should be.

  

  Ed Asner
  • Time
  • History
  • Never

• I let people make remarks about me, but it doesn't touch me, all those remarks.

  

  Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
  • People
  • Me
  • Touch

• People say sometimes, gosh, that was brave of you to write such-and-such last week. 'Brave?' What do they mean 'brave?' It's right! How could you not write it?

  

  Carl Hiaasen
  • People
  • Brave
  • Week

• I have a lot of blurring between fiction and non-fiction in so many of my works. For example, my first novel, 'When Nietzsche Wept,' has a great deal of non-fiction in it. I didn't create many characters at all. Almost all of them are historical characters that actually existed.

  

  Irvin D. Yalom
  • Great
  • Create
  • Fiction

• I did telemarketing for years, starting at the age of 16, just selling steak knives to old people. Old people go through a weird amount of steak knives. I also sold straight meat over the telephone.

  

  Adam DeVine
  • People
  • Age
  • Weird

• It's very odd that we have such an easy relationship to violence in this country, and we're still shocked by the female figure.

  

  Gaby Hoffmann
  • Country
  • Relationship
  • Violence

• Any political party that includes the word 'democratic' in its name, isn't.

  

  Patrick Murray
  • Political
  • Party
  • Name

• I think Picasso is more feminine than Matisse.

  

  Gary Hume
  • Think
  • More
  • I Think

• If technical progress is not matched by corresponding progress in man's ethical formation, in man's inner growth, then it is not progress at all, but a threat for man and for the world.

  

  Pope Benedict XVI
  • World
  • Growth
  • Progress

• Come down, O Christ, and help me! reach thy hand, For I am drowning in a stormier sea Than Simon on thy lake of Galilee.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Help
  • Sea
  • Christ

• I am deeply concerned by the current security situation in Kosovo. Violent incidents over the last few days have again led to loss of life and pose a grave risk to the cease-fire.

  

  Javier Solana
  • Risk
  • Concerned
  • Incident

• I'd lose weight if I was an actress and had to play a role where you're supposed to be 40 lbs lighter, but weight has nothing to do with my career. Even when I was signing a contract, most of the industry knew if anyone ever dared say lose weight to me, they wouldn't be working with me.

  

  Adele
  • Career
  • Singing
  • Actress

• He who is without a newspaper is cut off from his species.

  

  P. T. Barnum
  • Without
  • Newspaper
  • Cut

• Humanity is in the highest degree irrational, so that there is no prospect of influencing it by reasonable arguments. Against prejudice one can do nothing.

  

  Sigmund Freud
  • Humanity
  • Degree
  • Irrational

• Of all human activities, only labor, and neither action nor work, is unending, progressing automatically in accordance with life itself and outside the range of willful decisions or humanly meaningful purposes.

  

  Hannah Arendt
  • Work
  • Decisions
  • Purposes

• These days every wild place has, to one degree or another, been cut into and cut off.

  

  Elizabeth Kolbert
  • Degree
  • Cut