Daniel Mendelsohn Quotes

The writers we absorb when we're young bind us to them, sometimes lightly, sometimes with iron. In time, the bonds fall away, but if you look very closely you can sometimes make out the pale white groove of a faded scar, or the telltale chalky red of old rust.

Daniel Mendelsohn

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• I have a great sensitivity to kids. I have a great sensitivity to the people that fall between the cracks.

  

  Carl Paladino
  • People
  • Great
  • Kids

• HBO and I have a deal to at least try to make a television series from the Leonid McGill stories. We're going to start with the first novel, 'The Long Fall.'

  

  Walter Mosley
  • Long
  • Fall
  • Start

• Now I'm an old Christmas tree, the roots of which have died. They just come along and while the little needles fall off me replace them with medallions.

  

  Orson Welles
  • Fall
  • Tree
  • Christmas

• Sometimes you feel you have the truth of a moment in your hand, then it slips through your fingers and is lost.

  

  Harold Pinter
  • Truth
  • Lost
  • Hand

• It's one of the great tragedies of our contemporary life in America, that families fall apart. Almost everybody has that in common.

  

  Sam Shepard
  • Life
  • Great
  • America

• Sometimes you should just put down the computer, the phone, and walk away.

  

  Karen Handel
  • Sometimes
  • Down
  • Walk

• Despite the vigorous policy and legal debates surrounding same-sex marriage, there is little disagreement about this: If the United States Supreme Court holds that states must sanction same-sex marriage, then Florida's contrary laws must fall.

  

  Pam Bondi
  • Fall
  • Marriage
  • Sex

• I sometimes feel it is to my disadvantage that I have not conducted the Cleveland Orchestra or the Boston or Chicago symphonies, but then I have had to sacrifice something in order to have enough time with my orchestras.

  

  Zubin Mehta
  • Time
  • Sometimes
  • Sacrifice

• You have to fall. You have to understand what that feels like. For what I want in my life, and for where I want to go with this music, you gotta be humiliated, man. You gotta understand what that feels like. It just makes you stronger.

  

  Yelawolf
  • Life
  • Music
  • Man

• Sometimes I feel like an impostor, and I have to remind myself, 'You are able to do this.' I look at the books on the shelf that have my name on them to remind myself I have done it before and, likely, I can do it again.

  

  Laura Amy Schlitz
  • Done
  • Myself
  • Sometimes

• Sometimes videos make a bad song very tight.

  

  Thebe Neruda Kgositsile
  • Bad
  • Song
  • Sometimes

• Sometimes you have to find the passion. It comes from the inside... Everyone has to find it for themselves.

  

  Candace Bushnell
  • Passion
  • Sometimes
  • Find

• I understand that sometimes when you're young it's difficult to remember the difference between real life and what is part of fantasy.

  

  Dakota Blue Richards
  • Life
  • Real
  • Remember

• The people who abandon Jihad fall a victim to humility and degradation.

  

  Abu Bakr
  • People
  • Fall
  • Humility

• If one devalues rationality, the world tends to fall apart.

  

  Lars von Trier
  • World
  • Fall
  • Apart

• Obviously, you don't have to be religious to be moral, and beastly people are sometimes religious.

  

  Gary Hamel
  • People
  • Religious
  • Sometimes

• Describing comic sensibility is near impossible. It's sort of an abstract silliness, that sometimes the joke isn't the star.

  

  Dana Carvey
  • Star
  • Sometimes
  • Impossible

• Being an impatient guy, even off the field, I would always look to score runs and score them quickly. Sometimes I panic if runs are not coming.

  

  Gautam Gambhir
  • Guy
  • Always
  • Sometimes

• When you're reinterpreting the same material eight shows a week, it's impossible to lock in the 'ideal' performance. Things that felt great in previews can feel forced three months in; jokes that got big laughs in the rehearsal room may suddenly fall flat in front of a paying audience.

  

  Andrew Keenan-Bolger
  • Great
  • May
  • Fall

• I feel like Adele is a diva. Not in the bad way. She is one of the greatest voices of this industry and of her own art. What she offers is so unique that she's risen to such a status that very few artists can enjoy.

  

  Xavier Dolan
  • Art
  • Artists
  • Voices

• I like to turn things upside down, to watch pictures and situations from another perspective.

  

  Ursus Wehrli
  • Perspective
  • Upside Down

• I feel that I've got the opportunity to set a great role model for girls to look up to a strong, active, compassionate, loving, positive woman, and I think it's so important.

  

  Gal Gadot
  • Up
  • Great
  • Important

• The writers we absorb when we're young bind us to them, sometimes lightly, sometimes with iron. In time, the bonds fall away, but if you look very closely you can sometimes make out the pale white groove of a faded scar, or the telltale chalky red of old rust.

  

  Daniel Mendelsohn
  • Fall
  • Sometimes
  • Iron