Lydia Millet Quotes

Indeed, the hype around 'Watchmen' is its curse. If you want to enjoy the comic for what it is, ignore the attributions of literariness and the novelistic pretensions with which some critics have imbued it. This isn't high culture, and it doesn't pretend to be. It's good, juicy pulp fiction with a little nuclear apocalypse thrown in.

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• Unsettling signs of al Qaeda's aims and skills in cyberspace have led some government experts to conclude that terrorists are at the threshold of using the Internet as a direct instrument of bloodshed.

  

  Barton Gellman
  • Government
  • Internet
  • Skills

• I would convert to Judaism if the operation didn't hurt so much.

  

  Zubin Mehta
  • Hurt
  • Operation
  • Judaism

• Sometimes when I visit my sister and her two children, I wonder if she missed a lot by getting married. Right now, nothing could be further from my mind than getting married.

  

  Natalie Wood
  • Mind
  • Children
  • Wonder

• Nobody was my support. You have to support yourself, and I think that is the beauty of being a woman. You can handle anything and be ten times better than men.

  

  Kangana Ranaut
  • Men
  • Support
  • Beauty

• Metaphysics is a dark ocean without shores or lighthouse, strewn with many a philosophic wreck.

  

  Immanuel Kant
  • Dark
  • Ocean
  • Without

• I like science fiction, I like fantasy, I like time travel, so I had this idea: What if you had a phone that could call into the past?

  

  Rainbow Rowell
  • Time
  • Science
  • Past

• I think it's the director's prerogative, not the studio's, to go back and reinvent a movie.

  

  Oscar Isaac
  • Movie
  • Think
  • Back

• When I was 10 years old, that nuclear spark hit me. Whatever it may be, I really don't know what it was about nuclear science, but whatever it was that triggered that interest, it stuck. I went after that one with a passion.

  

  Taylor Wilson
  • Science
  • Know
  • Passion

• I love anything to do with history.

  

  Waris Ahluwalia
  • Love
  • History
  • Anything

• Anytime I'm involved with anything that's well-received, it's a surprise to me.

  

  Larry David
  • Me
  • Surprise
  • Involved

• Even a genius cannot completely resist his Zeitgeist, the spirit of his time.

  

  Viktor E. Frankl
  • Time
  • Spirit
  • Genius

• I tend to like simple music. And clever, succinct lyrics. Songs that don't try to be more than they need to to be effective, to stir up something emotionally within you.

  

  Zooey Deschanel
  • Up
  • Music
  • Simple

• I look out at the stadiums full of people and see them all knowing the words to songs I wrote. And curling their hair! I remember straightening my hair because I wanted to be like everybody else, and now the fact that anybody would emulate what I do? It's just funny. And wonderful.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • People
  • Remember
  • Words

• I've always thought John Travolta is one of the greatest movie stars Hollywood has ever produced.

  

  Quentin Tarantino
  • Movie
  • Thought
  • Stars

• There's nothing funnier than the human animal.

  

  Walt Disney
  • Animal
  • Human
  • Nothing

• Our underwear used to just be cotton, but we wanted to see if we could create something out of synthetics.

  

  Tadashi Yanai
  • Create
  • Just
  • Cotton

• Long for me as I for you, forgetting, what will be inevitable, the long black aftermath of pain.

  

  Malcolm Lowry
  • Long
  • Black
  • Pain

• Every year, I say the Seahawks are going to win the Super Bowl. There's no doubt in my mind every single year. And you have to keep in mind this was well before the Seahawks were good. This was, like, 2-14, drafting-Rick-Mirer Seahawks. I would still be saying they were going to win the Super Bowl.

  

  Daniel Bryan
  • Good
  • Mind
  • Single

• Inequality is not so much a cause of economic, political, and social processes as a consequence. Some of these processes are good, some are bad, and some are very bad indeed.

  

  Angus Deaton
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Political

• Yes, in the sense that the negative is like the composer’s score. Then, using that musical analogy, the print is the performance. (Paraphrased as 'Film is the score and the print is the performance.')

  

  Ansel Adams

• With my old man I got no respect. When he took me hunting he gave me a three minute head start. Then on the way home he tied me to the fender and put the deer in the car.

  

  Jack Roy
  • Home
  • Respect
  • Car

• Jesus Christ is a prince of peace. He told us to live in peace. He told us to love our enemies. He told us to do good to them that spitefully use us.

  

  Pat Robertson
  • Good
  • Live
  • Peace

• My fees are not too high. Your wage scale may simply be too low.

  

  Jack Vance
  • May
  • High

• Indeed, the hype around 'Watchmen' is its curse. If you want to enjoy the comic for what it is, ignore the attributions of literariness and the novelistic pretensions with which some critics have imbued it. This isn't high culture, and it doesn't pretend to be. It's good, juicy pulp fiction with a little nuclear apocalypse thrown in.

  

  Lydia Millet
  • Good
  • High
  • Culture