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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• I don't have any problem with being the guy whose album people put on when they're feeling sad.

  

  Sam Smith
  • People
  • Guy
  • Feeling

• 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

• When I first met my husband, I needed that helping hand to take the reins and look after me.

  

  Christina Aguilera
  • Hand
  • Husband
  • Helping

• 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

• For me, certain shots or scenes are keys in the movie.

  

  Sam Mendes
  • Movie
  • Certain
  • Scenes

• I like to go for a certain over-the-top opulence when naming the drone pieces whereas the song titles are all about concision, I guess. I mean, if I were truly a purist, I'd call things, "Long Piece #27" or "Newest Fast Song", but I enjoy titling and it is helpful at rehearsals or when making set-lists.

  

  David First
  • Song
  • Certain
  • Piece

• We are not here in this world to find elegant solutions, pregnant with initiative, or to serve the ways and modes of profitable progress. No, we are here to provide for all those who are weaker and hungrier, more battered and crippled than ourselves. That is our only certain good and great purpose on earth, and if you ask me about those insoluble economic problems that may arise if the top is deprived of their initiative, I would answer 'To hell with them.' The top is greedy and mean and will always find a way to take care of themselves. They always do.

  

  Michael Foot
  • Purpose
  • Always
  • Progress

• My friend, judge not me, Thou seest I judge not thee; Betwixt the stirrop and the ground, Mercy I askt, mercy I found.

  

  William Camden
  • Found
  • Judging
  • Judgment

• 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