Emily St. John Mandel Quotes

There are certain qualities of light that blur the years.

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• There is no one looking out for us. We are all alone.

  

  M. Night Shyamalan
  • Alone
  • Looking
  • U.S.

• If you don't learn to laugh at troubles, you won't have anything to laugh at when you grow old.

  

  E. W. Howe
  • Learn
  • Laugh
  • Grow

• I'm nearsighted in my right eye, have glaucoma in my left, and the nerves in my hands are on Medicare. Basically, I'm on the wrong end of a short sale.

  

  Gary McCord
  • Eye
  • End
  • Short

• I always write with music. It takes me a while to figure out the right piece of music for what I'm working on. Once I figure it out, that's the only thing I'll play.

  

  Kate DiCamillo
  • Music
  • Play
  • Write

• I do think the Obama agenda is the furthest left agenda we've seen since probably LBJ and the Great Society. And the differences have been that instead of him trying to go center-left, he's gone - in my estimation - more left. He's shown the country a much more aggressive liberal, more European style agenda, and that's on a center-right country.

  

  Sam Brownback
  • Great
  • Country
  • Trying

• Verily there is nothing in all Europe so beautiful as Valldemosa.

  

  Bayard Taylor
  • Beautiful
  • Nothing
  • Europe

• Leadership must be likeable, affable, cordial, and above all emotional. The fashion of authoritarian leadership is gone. Football is about life. You can't be angry all day.

  

  Vicente del Bosque
  • Life
  • Day
  • Fashion

• I set out to have a diverse staff on the 'Bernie Mac Show.'

  

  Larry Wilmore
  • Show
  • Diverse
  • Mac

• I learned how to sign because when I was growing up in California in order to get into college you needed two semesters of language to get into a University of California school.

  

  Camryn Manheim
  • Up
  • School
  • Growing

• When I left Michigan and I came to New York, that was my goal, to be a professional dancer. And I sort of fell into singing by accident in a way.

  

  Madonna Breakfast Club
  • Singing
  • Goal
  • Professional

• Terrorism, ladies and gentlemen, in my eyes I have a very, very, very simple explanation. Gangs of criminals, killers, used unfortunately by certain governments in the past for political purposes, who are on their own now as gangs.

  

  Hamid Karzai
  • Political
  • Past
  • Eyes

• Is this some kind of fucking radio promotion? What the fuck is this? Let me just say that if whatever said radio station tries to blacklist us for my comments about their balloons, I would like them to know I want a written apology tomorrow for interrupting my song.

  

  Jack White The White Stripes
  • Song
  • Apology

• No.

  

  Alfred Rosenberg

• But here, in the murk of conflagration, where scarcely a friend is left to know we, the survivors, do not flinch from anything, not from a single blow. Surely the reckoning will be made after the passing of this cloud. We are the people without tears, straighter than you … more proud...

  

  Anna Akhmatova
  • People
  • Single
  • Friend

• Night, the beloved. Night, when words fade and things come alive. When the destructive analysis of day is done, and all that is truly important becomes whole and sound again. When man reassembles his fragmentary self and grows with the calm of a tree.

  

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery
  • Important
  • Done
  • Night

• In the morning, I look at my calendar and think about whether things that aren't critical can be moved to the next week.

  

  Belinda Johnson
  • Morning

• Everything you say in a family carries meaning from all that was said before. So with friends, there is less likelihood of a few words triggering associations from childhood, where our deepest emotions often are rooted.

  

  Deborah Tannen
  • Family
  • Friends
  • Words

• I believe there should be breakfast, lunch and afternoon snack, all for free and for every child that goes to school. And all food that is good, clean and fair.

  

  Alice Waters
  • Good
  • Believe
  • School

• What has happened to architecture since the second world war that the only passers-by who can contemplate it without pain are those equipped with a white stick and a dog?

  

  Bernard Levin
  • World
  • War
  • Pain

• I'm often uncertain of what's expected of a movie.

  

  Hal Hartley
  • Movie

• I'm not a win at all costs guy. Winning isn't everything. It's second to breathing.

  

  George Steinbrenner
  • Guy
  • Winning
  • Breathing

• I think that the equator could act as a great equalizer for all life on Earth, celebrated as the great energy belt of the planet. If all our energy grids were synchronized, the light side of the planet could provide energy for the dark side, according to the movement of the sun.

  

  Antony Gormley
  • Life
  • Great
  • Earth

• The personal qualities necessary for attaining office are practically the opposite of those demanded by the office itself. The trouble with the damn system is that it selects for the skills needed to get elected, and nothing else. A test that you can only pass by cheating can't possibly select honest people.

  

  James P. Hogan
  • Office
  • Qualities
  • Necessary

• There are certain qualities of light that blur the years.

  

  Emily St. John Mandel
  • Light
  • Qualities
  • Blur