Eva Hoffman Quotes

Mimesis, it seems, works smoothly in only one direction, and life refuses conveniently to mirror the art in which it's seemingly mirrored.

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• I have a general sense of mission, and I intuitively know when something is influencing that mission. I think this is what I'm supposed to be doing. Doors keep opening. In the end, it's the best use of my skills. I've finally consented to the idea that I'm an artist.

  

  Abigail Washburn
  • Best
  • Artist
  • End

• The vision must be followed by the venture. It is not enough to stare up the steps - we must step up the stairs.

  

  Vance Havner
  • Up
  • Vision
  • Step

• For my parents' generation, the idea was not that marriage was about some kind of idealized, romantic love; it was a partnership. It's about creating family; it's about creating offspring. Indian culture is essentially much more of a 'we' culture. It's a communal culture where you do what's best for the community - you procreate.

  

  Aasif Mandvi
  • Family
  • Parents
  • Culture

• I like to stay home a lot. I like to do other things too, like decorate or build.

  

  Barbra Streisand
  • Home
  • Like
  • Build

• The landscape is like being there with a powerful personality and I'm searching for just the right angles to make that portrait come across as meaningfully as possible.

  

  Galen Rowell
  • Powerful
  • Personality

• Les Miserables is one of my favorite stories.

  

  Larry King
  • Stories
  • Favorite
  • Les

• Time is the coin of your life. It is the only coin you have, and only you can determine how it will be spent. Be careful lest you let other people spend it for you.

  

  Carl Sandburg
  • People
  • Life
  • Time

• I'm a progressive.

  

  J. B. Pritzker
  • Progressive

• We have rules that no longer are relevant to the world we're living in. Our regulatory system can't keep up.

  

  Gavin Newsom
  • Up
  • World
  • Rules

• I hate television, but that's me. It's like sucking your thumb. It's a wonderful thing for keeping the masses enslaved.

  

  Wayne Rogers
  • Hate
  • Me
  • Television

• For members of the Democratic Party, and progressives all over the world, it is difficult to overstate or hyperbolize the despair and dread that has descended upon them in the wake of President-elect Donald Trump.

  

  Fabrizio Moreira
  • World
  • Party
  • Trump

• If you read all your history books, there are no women in them.

  

  Caitlin Moran
  • Women
  • History
  • You

• The problem is Silicon Valley, which is an amazing ecosystem, also ends up being an amazing bubble, with white guys talking to white guys about white-guy problems. So it's great, but you kind of miss a lot of things around you.

  

  Maelle Gavet
  • Up
  • Great
  • Guy

• How shall I describe Youth, the time of contradictions and anomalies?  The fiercest radicalisms, the most dogged conservatisms, irrepressible gayety, bitter melancholy,-all these moods are equally part of that showery spring-time of life.

  

  Randolph Bourne
  • Life
  • Time
  • Spring

• You know, I think in the world of creativity there will always be risk. Whatever you do. Because creativity is something that is very personal, very individual. I may think that I am doing something great, you may not think that or the public outside may not think that, and you have an opinion.

  

  Amitabh Bachchan
  • World
  • Great
  • May

• Scientists and supercomputers have amplified our ability to look ahead. For decades, experts have warned us that human numbers, technology, hyper-consumption and a global economy are altering the chemical, geological, and biological properties of the biosphere.

  

  David Suzuki
  • Technology

• It's a great thing when you can show that you've been successful and that you've made a lot of money and that you've employed a lot of people.

  

  Donald Trump
  • People
  • Great
  • Money

• I don't believe in government regulation of the software industry.

  

  Jim Barksdale
  • Believe

• Science is no more than an investigation of a miracle we can never explain, and art is an interpretation of that miracle.

  

  Ray Bradbury
  • Life
  • Art
  • inspirational

• I'll be the first to admit that we're the 90's version of Cheap Trick or the Knack...

  

  Kurt Cobain Nirvana
  • First
  • Admit
  • Trick

• Brains, you see, vary a lot from person to person - they vary as much as faces do.

  

  Sam Kean
  • You
  • See
  • Brains

• It's hard to understand how you arrive at a design. It's far too complicated to get any overall picture of.

  

  Bill Reid
  • Picture
  • Design
  • Complicated

• Languages for me have a secret venom that every so often foams up and for which there is no antidote. I remember the dialect on my mother's lips when she lost that gentle cadence and yelled at us, poisoned by her unhappiness: I can't take you anymore, I can't take any more. Commands, shouts, insults, life stretching into her words, as when a frayed nerve is just touched, and the pain scrapes away all self-control.

  

  Elena Ferrante
  • Remember
  • Languages
  • Antidote

• Mimesis, it seems, works smoothly in only one direction, and life refuses conveniently to mirror the art in which it's seemingly mirrored.

  

  Eva Hoffman
  • Art
  • Direction
  • Mirrored