Emily Barton Quotes

I think that novels are one of the best means that we have to communicate both with the past and with the future.

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• We may stumble and fall but shall rise again; it should be enough if we did not run away from the battle.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • May
  • Fall
  • Battle

• I'm not a psychiatrist.

  

  Quincy Jones
  • Psychiatrist

• Those men who, in war, seek to preserve their lives at any rate commonly die with shame and ignominy, while those who look upon death as common to all, and unavoidable, and are only solicitous to die with honour, oftener arrive at old age and, while they live, live happier.

  

  Xenophon
  • Men
  • Live
  • War

• The one way to discover about aliens is to tune your radio telescope and listen to the signals.

  

  Garik Israelian
  • Way
  • Listen
  • Radio

• A people cannot long retain their freedom, whose government is incapable of protecting them.

  

  Oliver Ellsworth
  • People
  • Long
  • Freedom

• I'm not sad at all about turning 40.

  

  Halle Berry
  • Sad
  • About
  • Turning

• One of the advantages of this found footage format is that you can have deliberately badly composed frames. Here we can put a camera in the weirdest angle and it kind of throws you off. You never know what you are supposed to be paying attention to. It's deliberate chaos.

  

  Oren Peli
  • Know
  • Attention
  • Chaos

• Passion rebuilds the world for the youth. It makes all things alive and significant.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • World
  • Passion
  • Youth

• Yet there are thousands of Indigenous people searching for family members.

  

  Malcolm Fraser
  • People
  • Family
  • Searching

• I remember visiting my grandmother Adele in Ponce Inlet, Florida, when I was three years old, and she had an IBM electric typewriter. I thought that this electric typewriter was about the most fascinating toy in the world - I liked the little bell and the sounds and the feel of the keys and especially the erase key.

  

  Gabrielle Zevin
  • World
  • Remember
  • Thought

• Acting was a way of me finding myself, which I think is the case of a lot of actors, regardless of where they come from.

  

  Eddie Marsan
  • Myself
  • Acting
  • Finding

• Let us unite on the safe and sure ground of fact and experiment, and we can never err; yet better, we can never differ.

  

  Frances Wright
  • Never
  • Better
  • Experiment

• My childhood was surrounded by books and writing. From a very early age I was fascinated by storytelling, by the printed word, by language, by ideas. So I would seek them out.

  

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon
  • Writing
  • Age
  • Childhood

• For Black Label Special Opps, adversity is what you thrive on. General Patton is a huge fan favorite in Black Label.

  

  Zakk Wylde Black Label Society
  • Black
  • Adversity
  • Thrive

• I have always been a fixer. I am a fixer. I like problems, and I like puzzles, and I like to help people, so I have been a fixer, and I have always been an educator.

  

  Tabatha Coffey
  • People
  • Help
  • Problems

• It's a new world, Arcane...It's full of shopping malls...and striplights and software. The dark corners are being pushed back...a little more every day.We're things of the shadow, you and I...And there isn't as much shadow...as there used to be..

  

  Alan Moore
  • World
  • Dark
  • Shadow

• I'm not saying the whole world will work this way, but with Airbnb, people are sleeping in other people's homes and other people's beds. So there's a level of trust necessary to participate that's different from an eBay or Facebook.

  

  Brian Chesky
  • People
  • World
  • Work

• I'm happy with my body.

  

  Coco Martin
  • Happy

• Nature is a mutable cloud which is always and never the same.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Nature
  • Always
  • Cloud

• It's one thing to break stuff and damage people's possessions, but when you start aiming at the ideology of America, that's dangerous comedy.

  

  Adam McKay
  • People
  • America
  • Comedy

• Women have said the most malicious, disgusting things about me. But I know that when somebody comments about you, good or bad, it is 99 percent of the time their projection of how they feel about themselves.

  

  Paz de la Huerta
  • Time
  • Good
  • Women

• We can be tempted to make the life of faith a matter of mere sentiment, thus blunting its power to inspire a consistent vision of the world and a rigorous dialogue with the many other visions competing for the minds and hearts of our contemporaries.

  

  Pope Benedict XVI
  • Life
  • World
  • Power

• Our German Fatherland to which I hope will be granted... to become in the future as closely united, as powerful, and as authoritative as once the Roman world-empire was, and that, just as in the old times they said, Civis romanus sum, hereafter, at some time in the future, they will say, I am a German citizen.

  

  Wilhelm II
  • Time
  • World
  • Hope

• I think that novels are one of the best means that we have to communicate both with the past and with the future.

  

  Emily Barton
  • Future
  • Communicate
  • Novels