Eva Hoffman Quotes

The more words I have, the more distinct, precise my perceptions become--and such lucidity is a form of joy.

Eva Hoffman

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• When I was little, I got into a little accident, and it gave me congenital glaucoma in both of my eyes.

  

  Fetty Wap
  • Me
  • Eyes
  • Accident

• Lets be clear, Dolly Parton is a rapper. Somewhere before all the country, I don't know what happens up there in the mountains when you're growing up, but she has been spitting rhymes for a very long time - 50 years I'd say.

  

  Queen Latifah
  • Up
  • Time
  • Long

• Imagination grows by exercise, and contrary to common belief, is more powerful in the mature than in the young.

  

  W. Somerset Maugham
  • Powerful
  • Imagination
  • Exercise

• Art is born of humiliation.

  

  W. H. Auden
  • Art
  • Born
  • Humiliation

• I think people think of me as this elegant person because they always see me dressed up.

  

  Vanna White
  • People
  • Think
  • See

• I don't believe there will be anyone who will use violence or who will want to provoke violence that will tarnish the irreproachable image of the Catalan independence movement as pacifist.

  

  Carles Puigdemont
  • Believe
  • Want
  • Violence

• I'm a writer first and a singer second.

  

  Lana Del Rey
  • First
  • Writer
  • Singer

• She's anything but typical;She's so unpredictable.Oh but even at her worst it ain't that bad.She's as real as real can beAnd she's every fantasy.Lord she's every lover that I've ever had.And she's every lover that I've never had.

  

  Garth Brooks
  • Real
  • She
  • Bad

• Yes, our DNA is unique but so is a salamander’s.

  

  Dan Simmons
  • Unique

• Ricky: You are the strangest man alive.

  

  Karl Pilkington

• Progress' constant companion is nostalgia for the way things used to be.

  

  Ira Glass
  • Progress

• 'You’re just getting old.' She gave a dramatic sigh. 'Truly, all the more’s the tragedy; the second thing to go is a man’s memory.'

  

  Patrick Rothfuss
  • She

• It was here at the age of seventeen that I suspended my religious inquiries.

  

  Edward Gibbon
  • Age
  • Religious

• Without the hard little bits of marble which are called 'facts' or 'data' one cannot compose a mosaic; what matters, however, are not so much the individual bits, but the successive patterns into which you arrange them, then break them up and rearrange them.

  

  Arthur Koestler
  • Up

• I really love Celine. Obviously. Alexander Wang. Givenchy. Those are probably my main favorites. Dolce & Gabbana, too.

  

  Emily Ratajkowski

• My first memory of the Rolling Stones is listening to 'Satisfaction' at a sixth-grade slumber party at a friend's house in Ankara, Turkey, where my family was living at the time. In the middle of our sleepover, my friend's dad stopped the record when he heard the words 'girlie action!'

  

  Gayle King
  • Time
  • Family
  • House

• Without going into too much detail, the end of my major action scene, after the climax of the scene, there was one little change that I suggested regarding the way things should turn out. It was in the detail of the tears of blood.

  

  Chiaki Kuriyama
  • Action
  • Tears

• The Senate should consider a rule ensuring that every judicial nominee receives a vote by the Senate within 180 days of being nominated by the president.

  

  Brett Kavanaugh

• Poetry is what Milton saw when he went blind.

  

  Don Marquis
  • Poetry

• When you begin moving toward excellence, you will find very little competition. You're competing with only 20% of the population.

  

  Brian Tracy
  • Moving
  • Competition
  • Excellence

• Among top grandmasters the Dutch is a rare defense, which is good reason to play it! It has not been studied very deeply by many opponents, and theory, based on a small number of 'reliable' games, must be rather unreliable.

  

  Bent Larsen
  • Play
  • Games
  • Opponents

• They’re not even lovers,’ said Dolby. ‘They told the news. They’re just very best friends who have found that the person they each want to be is a combination of the two of them.’ I was lagging several beats behind them. ‘“Compatible.” Why do you think they’re compatible?’ ‘Are you kidding? Aren’t you compatible with yourself?’ I gave a short laugh. ‘Depends on who you ask.’ ‘Well, you can’t imagine. The Joy of Congruence is completely beyond you.’ ‘I hope you won’t be offended if I take that as a compliment.’ As soon as I said it, the word lit up in my head. Except it was spelled complement.

  

  Pat Cadigan
  • Up
  • Why
  • Friends

• The more words I have, the more distinct, precise my perceptions become--and such lucidity is a form of joy.

  

  Eva Hoffman
  • Words
  • Joy
  • Perceptions