Lionel Trilling Quotes

The spectator, we might put it, contracts by infection the characteristic disease of the actor, the attenuation of selfhood that results from impersonation.

Lionel Trilling

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• In this business, it's easy for either your heart or your head to be swayed, and I try to always stay true to who I am.

  

  Kate Bosworth
  • Heart
  • Business
  • True

• I was a very focused kid. I always had this crazy lifestyle... billions of jobs, two hours of gymnastics every day, handball, anything with a ball, really. I must have had ADHD or something. I was very energetic, and very small. I didn't start growing until the last year of high school.

  

  Mads Mikkelsen
  • School
  • High
  • Small

• Look what Disney's done to their animation department. There wasn't an animator in charge of their animation unit!

  

  Ralph Bakshi
  • Done
  • Look
  • Disney

• I would love to do something like 'Fishing With John.'

  

  Parker Posey
  • Love
  • Like
  • Fishing

• Just learning to think in another language allows you to see your own culture in a better viewpoint.

  

  Gates McFadden
  • Culture
  • Learning
  • Language

• I think I'm a better mother because of work, because I'm happy. If I wasn't working, I would just be waiting for the kids to come home every day, and living vicariously through their lives.

  

  Natalie Massenet
  • Work
  • Home
  • Kids

• I love football.

  

  Kaitlin Olson
  • Love
  • Football
  • I Love

• I would think flying would be pretty cool. You would be able to fly away from all your enemies and get where you're going much faster. But being invisible? You probably wouldn't use that for the good of man.

  

  Randy Johnson
  • Good
  • Pretty
  • Man

• I think living well is the key: trying not to build up regrets for the things we didn't do in our lives; to try to live a regret-free life in which we feel satisfied in what we're doing; and to try to be kind to ourselves and not disappointed in ourselves.

  

  Irvin D. Yalom
  • Life
  • Up
  • Live

• I could have made $2bn or $3bn - and ended up with some very cruel addiction - but I chose to be a civil rights warrior instead.

  

  Harry Belafonte
  • Up
  • Warrior
  • Addiction

• There is only one collective human civilisation comprised of geo-cultural domains and cultures.

  

  Nayef Al-Rodhan

• There was no substitute for reality; one should be aware of imitations.

  

  Arthur C. Clarke
  • Reality

• Barometer, n. An ingenious instrument which indicates what kind of weather we are having.

  

  Ambrose Bierce

• I am strongly drawn to the simple life and am often oppressed by the feeling that I am engrossing an unnecessary amount of the labour of my fellow-men. I regard class differences as contrary to justice and, in the last resort, based on force. I also consider that plain living is good for everybody, physically and mentally.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Life
  • Justice
  • Force

• I don't always think it's necessary for somebody to be nice all the time.

  

  Jake Gyllenhaal
  • Time
  • Nice

• I personally prefer projecting digitally. I guess I'm of that generation where I like that clarity.

  

  Duncan Jones

• I'll read, and then I'll take naps. When I feel sleep coming on, I give in and don't fight it.

  

  Jacques Barzun
  • Sleep

• Shyness is a very curious thing, because, like quicksand, it can strike people are any time, and also, like quicksand, it usually makes its victims look down.

  

  Daniel Handler
  • People
  • Time

• A decrepit society shuns humor as a decrepit individual shuns drafts.

  

  Malcolm Muggeridge
  • Society
  • Humor
  • Drafts

• I believe that Brazil was prepared to elect a woman. Why? Because Brazilian women achieved that. I didn't come here by myself, by my own merits. We are a majority here in this country.

  

  Dilma Rousseff
  • Believe
  • Women
  • Country

• Under the rules of a society that cannot distinguish between profit and profiteering, between money defined as necessity and money defined as luxury, murder is occasionally obligatory and always permissible.

  

  Lewis H. Lapham
  • Money
  • Society
  • Rules

• The public life of every political figure is a continual struggle to rescue an element of choice from the pressure of circumstance.

  

  Henry Kissinger
  • Public Life
  • Political Figure

• The spectator, we might put it, contracts by infection the characteristic disease of the actor, the attenuation of selfhood that results from impersonation.

  

  Lionel Trilling