Gabrielle Roy Quotes

Could we ever know each other in the slightest without the arts?

Gabrielle Roy

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• I don't have the looks to compete at a bar, and I'm not that funny. So the last thing I want is to be in a situation where that's what I'm competing on. I'd rather be on OkCupid or Match, where I can write a 300-word essay about myself that's really good.

  

  Sam Yagan
  • Good
  • Funny
  • Myself

• When an American says that he loves his country, he means not only that he loves the New England hills, the prairies glistening in the sun, the wide and rising plains, the great mountains and the sea. He means that he loves an inner air, inner life in which freedom lives. In which a man can draw the breath of self-respect.

  

  Ralph Bellamy
  • Life
  • Great
  • Country

• The most important of all rights is the right to life, and I cannot foresee a day when domesticated animals will be granted that right in law.

  

  J. M. Coetzee
  • Life
  • Important
  • Law

• I mean, in 'Big' and 'Pleasantville,' it's a journey that the characters go on where I think they come to kind of meet themselves at the end and who they actually are and give full voice to who they actually are. And that, you know, obviously fascinates me for some reason. Maybe I didn't adequately grow up.

  

  Gary Ross
  • Up
  • Journey
  • End

• 'The Big Chill' had a bunch of really talented actors, a great soundtrack, and the college connections that the characters shared. It's one of those movies I glean something different from every time I watch it.

  

  Malcolm D. Lee
  • Time
  • Great
  • Different

• Money is the last enemy that shall never be subdued. While there is flesh there is money or the want of money, but money is always on the brain so long as there is a brain in reasonable order.

  

  Samuel Butler
  • Long
  • Money
  • Brain

• Because I find writing painful, I try to get it over with as fast as possible. But I write every day, or I lose the thread.

  

  Patrick Modiano
  • Writing
  • Day
  • Everyday

• The enormous lake stretched flat and smooth and white all the way to the edge of the gray sky. Wagon tracks went away across it, so far that you could not see where they went; they ended in nothing at all.

  

  Laura Ingalls Wilder
  • Sky
  • White
  • Lake

• We have this culture of financialization. People think they need to make money with their savings rather with their own business. So you end up with dentists who are more traders than dentists. A dentist should drill teeth and use whatever he does in the stock market for entertainment.

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  • People
  • Up
  • Money

• That is how prison is tearing me up inside. It hurts every day. Every day takes me further from my life.

  

  Jack Henry Abbott
  • Life
  • Up
  • Day

• A U.S. war with Iran could end with a Kurdish enclave in Iran's northwest tied to Iraqi Kurdistan, Iran's Azeri north drifting toward Azerbaijan, and a Balochi enclave in the south linked to Pakistan's largest province, Balochistan, leaving Iran only Persia.

  

  Pat Buchanan
  • War
  • End
  • Leaving

• The happiest people, the ones you like the most, they're never worried about being rich.

  

  Vince Staples
  • People
  • Never
  • Rich

• I am always scared before going on stage; this is the fear which makes me do well.

  

  Kapil Sharma
  • Fear
  • Stage
  • Scared

• I think journalists and filmmakers are keen observers. And actors must also be sharp observers as they draw their characters and their stories from what they experience around them. After all, that is what actors, filmmakers, journalists are trained to be: observers. And then they do something with their observations.

  

  Pat Mitchell
  • Experience
  • Think
  • Sharp

• Chemicals are really simple. You mix a couple things together and sell it for more than the materials cost.

  

  Manoj Bhargava
  • Together
  • Simple
  • Couple

• You take somebody that cries their goddam eyes out over phoney stuff in the movies, and nine times out of ten they're mean bastards at heart.

  

  J. D. Salinger
  • Heart
  • Eyes
  • Movies

• Just as our eyes need light in order to see, our minds need ideas in order to conceive.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • Light
  • Eyes
  • Ideas

• You can find academic and industrial groups doing some relevant work, but there isn't a focus on building complex molecular systems. In that respect, Japan is first, Europe is second, and we're third.

  

  K. Eric Drexler
  • Work
  • Respect
  • Focus

• SoHo was called Hell's Hundred Acres because it was full of sweatshops - without fire escapes. Completely not up to code. Every once in a while, these buildings would burn and 26 Puerto Ricans would be killed.

  

  Carl Andre
  • Up
  • Fire
  • SoHo

• If you read a book that's fiction and you get caught in the characters and the plot, and swept away, really, by the fiction of it - by the non-reality - you sometimes wind up changing your reality as well. Often, when the last page is turned, it will haunt you.

  

  Jodi Picoult
  • Up
  • Book
  • Reality

• In high school, I made the all-city and all-state soccer teams.

  

  Clint Smith
  • School
  • High
  • City

• During my grief, I realised there was nothing I could do for my mother, but I did have a child.

  

  Namie Amuro
  • Mother
  • Child
  • Grief

• I'm passionate about mobilizing young Latinos to get to the polls, so I'm involved with Voto Latino. Latinos are a vital but underrepresented force in this country.

  

  Ana Ortiz
  • Country

• Could we ever know each other in the slightest without the arts?

  

  Gabrielle Roy