Emily St. John Mandel Quotes

A fragment for my friend-- If your soul left this earth I would follow and find you Silent, my starship suspended in night.

Emily St. John Mandel

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• Night
• Silent
• My Friend

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• I feel quite excited about the possibility of working on multiple albums. There's something really iconic about having a catalog featuring a lot of albums, and I'd love to have that legacy.

  

  Paloma Faith
  • Working
  • Legacy
  • Possibility

• Love is not the dying moan of a distant violin - it's the triumphant twang of a bedspring.

  

  S. J. Perelman
  • Love
  • Dying
  • For Her

• It's important that period films aren't seen as just a lovely visual exercise.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • Important
  • Period
  • Exercise

• The truth is that the history of Mexico is a history in the image of its geography: abrupt and tortuous. Each historical period is like a plateau surrounded by tall mountains and separated from the other plateaus by precipices and divides.

  

  Octavio Paz
  • Truth
  • History
  • Period

• You just make sure you don't screw it up. It's going to work as long as you don't mess it up. Hopefully you have plenty of those moments in a big comedy.

  

  Harold Ramis
  • Up
  • Work
  • Long

• We have lost a lot of ground to the extremists in the Middle East.

  

  Najib Razak
  • Lost
  • Ground
  • Middle East

• When I first came into the league, I followed my parents for everything. Now, I'm really doing stuff on my own.

  

  J. R. Smith
  • Parents
  • Doing
  • Now

• I think beauty comes from within. If you're happy and look at life in the best way you can, even when there are problems, it can make you beautiful on the outside.

  

  Faith Hill
  • Life
  • Happy
  • Beautiful

• Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing.

  

  Harper Lee
  • Loved
  • Read
  • Feared

• To marry the Irish is to look for poverty.

  

  J. P. Donleavy
  • Poverty
  • Look
  • Irish

• You see. I don't think any new thoughts. I think thoughts that other people have thought, and I rearrange them. But Sara, she thinks thoughts that never were before.

  

  Linus Torvalds
  • People
  • She
  • Thoughts

• Less than the weed that grows beside thy door

  

  Adela Florence Nicolson
  • Door
  • Weed

• Wherever there is degeneration and apathy, there also is sexual perversion, cold depravity, miscarriage, premature old age, grumbling youth, there is a decline in the arts, indifference to science, and injustice in all its forms.

  

  Anton Chekhov
  • Age
  • Science
  • Cold

• 'The Theory Of Everything' was a charming story, but I never dreamed it would turn out the way it did, winning all sorts of awards, and I don't think anybody working on it did.

  

  Charlie Cox
  • Winning

• The first time I ever acted was in 'The Glass Menagerie' in high school, and my first line was, 'I didn't know Shakespeare had a sister.'

  

  Bill Hader
  • Time
  • School
  • High

• I'm just a working actor.

  

  Clive Owen

• When you can type a few words into a search engine and land on your topic - or when you can scan a Shakespeare play for specific words or symbols - what opportunities might you miss to expand your thinking in unexpected ways?

  

  Christina Baker Kline
  • Thinking
  • Words
  • Search

• I don't have a Madonna-sized fan base, so I can actually e-mail and talk to everyone that e-mails me, because I am totally appreciative and I like my fans!

  

  Jill Sobule

• I'm definitely more understanding of people who have disabilities and who are suffering.

  

  Kevin Sorbo
  • People
  • Understanding
  • Suffering

• In politics, readily dismissing inconvenient people can easily extend to dismissing inconvenient truths about them.

  

  Daniel Goleman
  • People

• To you, W. B. Yeats, good praiser, wholesome dispraiser, heavy-handed judge, open-handed helper of us all, I offer a play of my plays for every night of the week, because you like them, and because you have taught me my trade.

  

  Lady Gregory
  • Good
  • Night
  • Judge

• A saved soul has many sorrows. They have their share of bereavements, deaths, disappointments , crosses. What shall enable a believer to bear all this? Nothing but the consolation there is in Christ.

  

  J. C. Ryle
  • Soul
  • Disappointment
  • Bereavement

• A fragment for my friend-- If your soul left this earth I would follow and find you Silent, my starship suspended in night.

  

  Emily St. John Mandel
  • Soul
  • Night
  • Silent