Lauren Groff Quotes

Sometimes immense things, like war and death and aging, are best seen from the corner of the eye and written of only obliquely, with tremendous lightness.

Lauren Groff

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• As a very young girl, I understood that the interior activities of the home are as significant as the exterior activities of society.

  

  Laura Esquivel
  • Home
  • Society
  • Girl

• Our party, I can tell you, is very transparent; we believe in our credentials. Our credentials are our only credibility; we are not going to compromise on that; we are the commoners.

  

  Mamata Banerjee
  • Believe
  • Party
  • Compromise

• I have an enormous metabolism, so I'm lucky.

  

  Mads Mikkelsen
  • Lucky
  • Enormous
  • Metabolism

• We've heard from many teachers that they used episodes of Star Trek and concepts of Star Trek in their science classrooms in order to engage the students.

  

  Patrick Stewart
  • Science
  • Star
  • Students

• I think there are ways to get so caught up in your career and being so heavy and dramatic, and everyone wants to be a tortured genius.

  

  Laura Dern
  • Up
  • Think
  • Career

• I fell in love with acting, just going to a lot of plays. My parents went to a lot of plays, and I went to a lot of schools that would get plays for kids.

  

  Patrick J. Adams
  • Kids
  • Parents
  • Plays

• A great sense of peace entered my body, and seemingly into every cell.

  

  Harold E. Hughes
  • Great
  • Peace
  • Body

• Honestly, I find writing to be a very lonely job.

  

  Randeep Hooda
  • Writing
  • Job
  • Lonely

• In 2003, as a 21-year-old convert to Islam, I moved from Colorado to Cairo to see what life was like in a Muslim country.

  

  G. Willow Wilson
  • Life
  • Country
  • Islam

• Law enforcement officers are never 'off duty.' They are dedicated public servants who are sworn to protect public safety at any time and place that the peace is threatened. They need all the help that they can get.

  

  Barbara Boxer
  • Time
  • Help
  • Law

• If I win the gold medal, I will be set for the rest of my life. The medal itself doesn't give you anything, but it makes you a marketable item. You take it and see what you can do.

  

  Caitlyn Jenner
  • Life
  • Rest
  • Win

• I retreat to my cave in a very male fashion.

  

  Ed Stoppard
  • Fashion
  • Retreat
  • Cave

• We Christians should be aware that there's something at stake in cultural participation that we wouldn't have been concerned about if all we did was worry about the messages in culture.

  

  Dallas Willard
  • Culture
  • Worry
  • Something

• To be let go from a soap opera is the most embarrassing confidence basher in the world. It's like, 'Oh, if I'm not good enough for that, I'm not good enough for anything.'

  

  Cam Gigandet
  • World
  • Good
  • Confidence

• We must see what in the Israeli identity - in the Israeli - we can give to other people rather than speaking so often of taking, expanding territory.

  

  A. B. Yehoshua
  • People
  • Identity
  • See

• America is a meritocracy.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • America

• I remember being about eight and watching 'Pollyanna' with Hayley Mills. I looked at my mum and said, 'Mum, I want to be Pollyanna.' She said, 'You're going to have to make yourself cry if you want to be an actress.' So I turned my head away, and when I turned it back I was in floods of tears.

  

  Laura Haddock
  • Remember
  • Tears
  • Actress

• For me, a great fantasy is real people, a world I recognise, human struggle and magic. You've got to have magic to make a fantasy work. But I like my magic to be subtle. I don't want magic coming out of the hands of wizards. I want it to be pervading, sinister somehow.

  

  Fiona McIntosh
  • People
  • World
  • Work

• That's what my life is, writing songs.

  

  John Cale
  • Life
  • Writing

• Hope...which is whispered from PAndora's box only after all the other plauges and sorrows had escaped, is the best and last of all things. Without it, there is onl time. And time pushes at our backs like a centrifuge, forcing us outward and away, until it nudges us into oblivion.

  

  Ian Caldwell
  • Time
  • Hope
  • Sorrow

• Type well used is invisible as type, just as the perfect talking voice is the unnoticed vehicle for the transmission of words, ideas.

  

  Beatrice Warde
  • Ideas
  • Voice
  • Transmission

• I grew up in South Africa, but like many people at that time, I couldn't bear living in the country. The main motivation for moving to Britain was to get away.

  

  Manfred Mann
  • People
  • Up
  • Time

• We human beings do a lot of dumb things, and war is certainly the dumbest.

  

  Natalie Babbitt
  • War
  • Human
  • Dumb

• Sometimes immense things, like war and death and aging, are best seen from the corner of the eye and written of only obliquely, with tremendous lightness.

  

  Lauren Groff
  • War
  • Death