Karen Russell Quotes

My older sister has entire kingdoms inside of her, and some of them are only accessible at certain seasons, in certain kinds of weather.

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• The march of the human mind is slow.

  

  Edmund Burke
  • Mind
  • March
  • Slow

• To do common things perfectly is far better worth our endeavor than to do uncommon things respectably.

  

  Harriet Beecher Stowe
  • Better
  • Common
  • Uncommon

• I was booed at the premiere of 'Miss Julie,' a remarkably stimulating experience.

  

  Ingmar Bergman
  • Experience
  • Miss
  • Julie

• Apartheid either is or is not. And it must not be.

  

  Oliver Tambo
  • Must
  • Either
  • Apartheid

• Sentences or solutions occur to me in the shower, or while running on the treadmill, or riding on the subway.

  

  Karen Thompson Walker
  • Me
  • Solutions
  • Sentences

• I should have been an abortion. The only reason I wasn't was that my father was a Christian.

  

  Neko Case
  • Father
  • Christian

• Could've sworn I heard you say Amen this morning, showing some kind of sign that you believe. Did it fall from your tongue without warning? Or just another trick to fall from your sleeve?

  

  Ben Harper
  • Believe
  • Fall
  • Morning

• I suppose I could have sat back and pitied myself. For a time I wondered if I'd ever be able to go on to a stage and perform again. After a couple of weeks I began to feel I could fight my way back to health if I put my mind to it. I thought to myself: 'Pity never did anybody any good. Go on. Patsy, show 'em what you can do'

  

  Patsy Cline
  • Time
  • Good
  • Mind

• Every sin is an act of cosmic treason, a futile attempt to dethrone God in His sovereign authority.

  

  R. C. Sproul
  • God
  • Sin
  • Act

• I'm not being like, 'Hey, everybody, I'm pregnant!' I'm not that girl.

  

  Christina Aguilera
  • Girl
  • Pregnant
  • Hey

• It will take at least one week for the Justice Department to arrive at a final conclusion on this matter. Therefore, the committee does not anticipate taking any actions with respect to Mrs. Rich for at least one week.

  

  Dan Burton
  • Respect
  • Justice
  • Conclusion

• I don't think time is involved in how the thing is made.

  

  Garry Winogrand
  • Time
  • Thinking
  • Made

• As soon as we are born, if we could but get up, bath, dress, shave, breakfast once for all, if we could 'cut' these monotonous cycles of routine. If the sun rose it would stay up, or once we were alive we were immortal!

  

  Wilhelm Nero Pilate Barbellion
  • Up
  • Sun
  • Cutting

• I am overcome by a feeling of complete detachment. I am a mere object to these people. I am barely human any more.

  

  Tabitha Suzuma
  • People
  • Feeling

• When people talk to us about others they are usually dull. When they talk to us about themselves they are nearly always interesting.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • People
  • Interesting
  • Talk

• I don't like to get things during the year, .. I like to wait for my birthday or Christmas. I may see something that I'll say, 'I'd really like that for my birthday.' I like to have things to look forward to.

  

  Dakota Fanning
  • May
  • Waiting
  • Years

• It does not follow, because our ancestors made so many errors of fact and mixed them with their religion, that we should therefore leave off being religious at all. By being religious we establish ourselves in possession of ultimate reality at the only points at which reality is given us to guard. Our responsible concern is with our private destiny, after all.

  

  William James
  • Reality
  • Religious
  • Destiny

• Nice Girl Syndrome: Nice girls suffer from "the disease to please" - they put their needs behind everyone else's.

  

  Beverly Engel
  • Disease
  • Suffer
  • Nice Girl

• There's certain things that you can do on cable that you can't do here on network TV, so then you have to think outside the box a little bit.

  

  Josh Charles
  • Littles
  • Certain
  • Boxes

• There is no shame in what you are feeling, Harry,' said Dumbledore's voice. 'On the contrary... the fact that you can feel pain like this is your greatest strength.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • Feeling
  • Pain
  • Feelings

• When I talk to film students, I always say, "Buy the DVDs and listen to the commentaries, look at the making of, look at the behind-the-scenes," because that's such a great learning tool.

  

  Catherine Hardwicke
  • Film
  • Students
  • Scene

• My older sister has entire kingdoms inside of her, and some of them are only accessible at certain seasons, in certain kinds of weather.

  

  Karen Russell
  • Certain
  • Older
  • Seasons