Emily St. John Mandel Quotes

They spend all their lives waiting for their lives to begin.

Emily St. John Mandel

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• My first car was an '84 Ford Taurus. It caught on fire from me trying to change the fuel pump, so that wasn't good at all. Dried leaves on the ground while I was trying to change the fuel pump. Don't do that. Do it on concrete.

  

  T-Pain
  • Good
  • Trying
  • Change

• 'Longmire' is more of a show about the characters, and you couldn't pay a bigger compliment than to want to know more about my character, or the characters on the show.

  

  Bailey Chase
  • Character
  • Want
  • Compliment

• Every artist says that he/she wants to do something challenging, and I'm not any different. If someone approaches me with a serious role, I'll be more than happy.

  

  Kapil Sharma
  • Happy
  • Artist
  • Serious

• There's this Method Man album called 'Tical.' It's his first album. I would just listen to that every day, because the album feels like, if it were a film, it would be black and white. It feels like there's a war percolating throughout the album itself. It's dark, and it has a nice forward pace to it.

  

  Mahershala Ali
  • War
  • Black
  • Nice

• I've decided I am going to start loving my backside because I don't know anyone who does that.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • Know
  • Start
  • Does

• I hope I'm better today than I was yesterday. I don't believe in glory days or anything like that, so I think the best is tomorrow or later this afternoon!

  

  Edie Brickell
  • Believe
  • Hope
  • Today

• Acting is a really strange thing to do; it's very strange.

  

  Parker Posey
  • Acting
  • Strange
  • Very

• I realized that everything important in sci-fi showed up in the magazines first. It's the proving ground for new writers and new ideas.

  

  Orson Scott Card
  • Up
  • Important
  • Ideas

• There is nothing exempt from the peril of mutation.

  

  Walter Raleigh

• If she had only been able to touch him, they might perhaps have pooled their secrets and discovered the reason for human confusion. But as that wasn't possible, she went outside, into the garden.

  

  Patrick White
  • She
  • Garden

• But you should never be embarrassed by your trouble with livingCause it's the ones with the sorest throats Laura,who have done the most singing.

  

  Conor Oberst Bright Eyes
  • Done
  • Singing

• Un male incerto provoca inquietudine, perché, in fondo, si spera fino all'ultimo che non sia vero; ma un male sicuro, invece, infonde per qualche tempo una squallida tranquillità.

  

  Alberto Moravia

• With 140 words in Chinese, you really can write a novel. Most of Confucius’s sentences are only four words, so 140 words might take his whole life to write. And you can discuss the most profound ideas related to democracy, freedom, poetry.

  

  Ai Weiwei
  • Life
  • Words
  • Freedom

• By the time Joan of Arc was 16 and had proclaimed herself the virgin warrior sent by God to deliver France from her enemies, the English, she had been receiving the counsel of angels for three years.

  

  Kathryn Harrison
  • Time
  • God
  • English

• I always ask the question: As more Africans are going online, are they finding content that is meaningful and relevant to them, or are they just consuming from everywhere else. As Africans, we have the capacity to generate our own content.

  

  Ory Okolloh
  • Question
  • Meaningful

• A risk-free life is far from being a healthy life.

  

  Deepak Chopra
  • Life
  • Free
  • Risk

• It's something nice to be number one, of course, but there are much more expectations.

  

  Angelique Kerber
  • Nice

• I want to be competitive; I want to run all over - I want to win.

  

  Diego Costa

• When the time comes to start building deep space transports and refueling rocket tankers, it will be the commercial industry that steps up, not another government-owned, government-managed enterprise.

  

  Buzz Aldrin
  • Up
  • Time
  • Space

• Jesus hears us, and in His own good time will give an answer... He may sometimes keep us long waiting...but He will never send us empty away.

  

  J. C. Ryle
  • Time
  • Good
  • Long

• It's important that the drivers stay together, because in difficult moments we have each other. If we are not together the financial and political interests of the organisers and constructors come to the fore.

  

  Ayrton Senna
  • Important
  • Together
  • Political

• When you're surrounded by brilliant actors, and teachers who challenge you to go beyond what you thought you were capable of, that's got to be good for you.

  

  Jessie Buckley
  • Good
  • Challenge

• They spend all their lives waiting for their lives to begin.

  

  Emily St. John Mandel
  • Waiting
  • Begin