Lev Grossman Quotes

I've read plenty of J.G. Ballard, but I'm not really a Ballardian. I've met Ballardians, and I know when I can't compete. I like Ballard in his relatively unchallenging apocalyptic mode: 'Vermilion Sands,' 'The Drowned World,' 'The Burning World,' 'The Crystal World.'

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• I see my role as a scholar announcing that women's feelings of unworthiness and insecurity often may be traced to training in a male-oriented religion, and I'm trying to investigate a richer spiritual life for both sexes.

  

  Barbara G. Walker
  • Life
  • Women
  • Trying

• May He who holds in his hands the destinies of nations, make you worthy of the favors He has bestowed, and enabled you with pure hearts and hands and sleepless vigilance, to guard and defend to the end of time, the great charge He has committed to your keeping.

  

  J. Reuben Clark
  • Time
  • Great
  • May

• I don't mind talking about 'what might have been,' but I am not one to doubt or regret most of my decisions.

  

  Larry Wilcox
  • Mind
  • Doubt
  • Regret

• I'm not against the NSA. I'm not against spying; I'm not against looking at phone records.

  

  Rand Paul
  • Looking
  • Against
  • Phone

• After six years without seeing one, I love just seeing a smile - every smile I see gives me hope.

  

  Ingrid Betancourt
  • Hope
  • Smile
  • Seeing

• I never got into politics for it to be a career.

  

  J. C. Watts
  • Career
  • Never
  • Politics

• I did every job under the sun from bartending to ushering to temping.

  

  Natalie Dormer
  • Job
  • Sun
  • Did

• As a teenager you are at the last stage in your life when you will be happy to hear that the phone is for you.

  

  Fran Lebowitz
  • Life
  • Happy
  • Teenager

• So, it's like: I'm an OK singer; I'm an OK guitar player and you put them together and... it's just OK.

  

  Callie Thorne
  • Together
  • You
  • Player

• You've got to love acting and that's true for me. I love the idea of getting on stage and getting in front of a camera.

  

  Warwick Davis
  • True
  • Me
  • Idea

• I crave attention and adventure.

  

  Eddie Cibrian
  • Attention
  • Adventure
  • Crave

• I still have a young attitude.

  

  Pat Morita
  • Attitude
  • Young
  • Still

• There's a monster outside my room, can I have a glass of water?

  

  M. Night Shyamalan
  • Water
  • Monster
  • Glass

• The basic right to quality and affordable health care is under assault by Donald Trump and Republicans in Washington.

  

  J. B. Pritzker
  • Health
  • Quality
  • Care

• Rand Paul does not like being compared to his father Ron any more than sons named Bush like to dance in their father's shadow, but the crucial difference is that while the Bushes all hail from the relative mainstream of the GOP, the Pauls have an ideological tributary virtually to themselves.

  

  Nancy Gibbs
  • Father
  • Dance
  • Shadow

• I don't think you'll ever be happy about anything unless you've done it.

  

  Gary Barlow Take That
  • Done
  • Happy
  • Think

• 'Rent,' for me, was a significant time in my life because it was my first break. It was my first professional job. I also met my husband in that cast, Taye Diggs.

  

  Idina Menzel
  • Life
  • Time
  • Job

• The war on terror is the most insane and immoral war of all time. The Americans are doing what they did in Vietnam, bombing villages. But how can a civilised nation do this? How can you can eliminate suspects, their wives, their children, their families, their neighbours? How can you justify this?

  

  Imran Khan
  • Time
  • Children
  • War

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

  

  Ed Stoppard
  • Fashion
  • Retreat
  • Cave

• This particular nurse said, Cancer cells are those which have forgotten how to die. I was so struck by this statement.

  

  Harold Pinter
  • Die
  • Cancer
  • Said

• It's always an honour doing anything for your country.

  

  Gary Kemp Spandau Ballet
  • Country
  • Always
  • Doing

• I am not here concerned with intent, but with scientific standards, especially the ability to tell the difference between a fact, an opinion, a hypothesis, and a hole in the ground.

  

  Serge Lang
  • Opinion
  • Ability
  • Facts

• What makes us feel pessimistic about the world, ultimately, is the way the media encourage us to believe that our fate hangs on the every move of the promise-breaking, terminally disappointing Teflon liars in Washington.

  

  Matt Taibbi
  • World
  • Believe
  • Promise

• I've read plenty of J.G. Ballard, but I'm not really a Ballardian. I've met Ballardians, and I know when I can't compete. I like Ballard in his relatively unchallenging apocalyptic mode: 'Vermilion Sands,' 'The Drowned World,' 'The Burning World,' 'The Crystal World.'

  

  Lev Grossman
  • World