Eva Hoffman Quotes
There is nothing like a gleam of humor to reassure you that a fellow human being is ticking inside a strange face.
Quotes to Explore
-
I think writers have to be proactive: they've got to use new technology and social media. Yes, it's hard to get noticed by traditional publishers, but there's a great deal of opportunity out there if you've got the right story.
-
I would love to explore film seeing as I have prominently been on television. It would be nice to change it up and focus on film a little bit.
-
Anyway, no drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity, ignorance, greed and love of power.
-
Explosions are not comfortable.
-
'Life as a Dog' is when I really started to feel comfortable, like I had the due north on my compass.
-
I'm very intelligent. I'm capable of doing everything put to me. I've launched a perfume and want my own hotel chain. I'm living proof blondes are not stupid.
-
My mom didn't let me play video games growing up, so now I do. Gaming gives me a chance to just let go, blow somebody up and fight somebody from another dimension. It's all escapism.
-
I support gay unions. I think the government should get out of the marriage business completely - leave marriages to the churches. And grant civil unions to gay couples, grant civil unions to a man and woman.
-
I think it is valuable and should be valued by its consumers. Charging for content forces discipline on journalists: they must produce things that people actually value.
-
True Yankees fans know an up-and-coming player when they see one.
-
How long should a man's legs be? Long enough to touch the ground.
-
To me, 'The End of the Jews' - both the title and the novel itself - is about the end of pat, uncritical ways of understanding oneself in the world.
-
There is simply too much of my life that is involved in my work that I couldn't replicate in any other way.
-
Ever since viewing screens entered the home, many observers have worried that they put our brains into a stupor. An early strain of research claimed that when we watch television, our brains mostly exhibit slow alpha waves - indicating a low level of arousal, similar to when we are daydreaming.
-
I never got to Broadway. I would love to do that.
-
Our children think our world will end. It's a tragic thing. Adults don't think that. They don't see that we are eating the planet. But we are. If you take all the biomass of vertebrates on the planet, 98% are men and their domestic animals. All the wild animals in the world make up only 2%.
-
I think the job of writing and literature is to encourage each one of us to believe that we're living in a story.
-
I'm a smoky eye girl. I love playing with eye colors, metallics... fun stuff!
-
Adam was created to be the friend and companion of God, he was to have dominion over all the life in the air and earth and sea, but one thing he was not to have dominion over, and that was himself.
-
The one who turns his back on the world and its comforts and, sets out on the path that leads to the Beloved has to face countless difficulties. But he brakes them all for the sake of the Beloved.
-
After I told my wife that black underwear turned me on, she didn't wash my Y-fronts for a month.
-
There is nothing like a gleam of humor to reassure you that a fellow human being is ticking inside a strange face.
