Elif Batuman Quotes

I like to think that I know a lot of words, but I definitely don't know all of them.

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• Whenever a theory appears to you as the only possible one, take this as a sign that you have neither understood the theory nor the problem which it was intended to solve.

  

  Karl Popper
  • Problem
  • Possible
  • Theory

• Anna Wintour has guided me.

  

  Natalie Massenet
  • Me
  • Guided
  • Anna

• I wanted to see how flavors, spices, and grains traveled back and forth along the Silk Road and were interpreted by a multitude of cultures' palates.

  

  Hanya Yanagihara
  • Road
  • See
  • Cultures

• People who get rich early should help the rest get rich.

  

  Zong Qinghou
  • People
  • Help
  • Rest

• I love singing. It's who I am. When I act, I take a small part of myself and just magnify it, but when I'm singing, that's who I am. I don't write music, so I choose songs that I would have written.

  

  Lainie Kazan
  • Music
  • Singing
  • Write

• I've never been a rap guy, I don't really know that much about rap music, to be honest. I like it, but I think what really happened was just my music seems to work so well with rap music.

  

  Flume
  • Work
  • Music
  • Think

• This applies to many film jobs, not just editing: half the job is doing the job, and the other half is finding ways to get along with people and tuning yourself in to the delicacy of the situation.

  

  Walter Murch
  • People
  • Job
  • Yourself

• Beauty is indeed a good gift of God; but that the good may not think it a great good, God dispenses it even to the wicked.

  

  Saint Augustine
  • Good
  • Great
  • God

• I think any artist that's going to become anything in this world faces humility: with great humility comes great success.

  

  Yelawolf
  • World
  • Great
  • Success

• There is no such source of error as the pursuit of truth.

  

  Samuel Butler
  • Truth
  • Source
  • Pursuit

• I realize how myself and other people have started to almost fool ourselves that it's more important to us and more real than the real world, the offline world, and we value looking at our phone and pixels on a screen more than connecting eye to eye with a human being, which is terrifying to me because we're becoming robots.

  

  Tali Lennox
  • People
  • World
  • Value

• The music led to the acting. But movies aren't something you can just will yourself into. Someone has to choose you, and you have to be quite fortunate to be chosen.

  

  Ice T
  • Music
  • Acting
  • Yourself

• I have a very personal interest. I am a Miami-Dade voter. One of the issues is that my vote and so many other votes of women and African Americans in Florida are being discounted or discarded. I want my vote to count.

  

  Patricia Ireland
  • Women
  • Vote
  • Count

• When you're in a place, the details you focus on are different than details you focus on when you're writing about it.

  

  Tea Obreht
  • Different
  • Writing
  • Focus

• I would be content if I had nothing but a tape-recorder. I could still write songs and record them.

  

  Barry Gibb Bee Gees
  • Write
  • Nothing
  • Content

• Education is that whole system of human training within and without the school house walls, which molds and develops men.

  

  W. E. B. Du Bois
  • Men
  • School
  • House

• I come with bad genetics, personally.

  

  J. B. Pritzker
  • Bad
  • Personally
  • Genetics

• We want Quora to last forever, and in order to last forever, it's going to need to have revenue. One of the best things about ads is that you don't need to exclude anyone.

  

  Adam D'Angelo
  • Want
  • Best
  • Forever

• As much as movies are about the words that you're saying, they're also about what's not said, the silent moments.

  

  Dakota Fanning
  • Words
  • Moments
  • Movies

• When I'm writing, I'm creating the story and its character with words. I'm thinking about what the pictures will be like, but I never begin to sketch. The pictures are all in my head.

  

  Kevin Henkes
  • Thinking
  • Writing
  • Character

• Our words had to be circumspect. We could not write anything too negative about our circumstances. This was tricky, since the very form of a married woman's letter needed to include the usual complaints -- that we were pathetic, powerless, worked to the bone, homesick, and sad. We were supposed to speak directly about our feelings without appearing ungrateful, no-account, or unfilial.

  

  Lisa See
  • Words
  • Sad
  • Ungrateful

• Such as thy words are, such will thy affections be esteemed; and such will thy deeds be as thy affections and such thy life as thy deeds.

  

  Socrates
  • Life
  • Words
  • Deeds

• There is so much more than that little space from 14 to 40. And if you cut that off and begin to believe that you are not good past a certain age, then you end up scared and insecure and afraid. That is definitely NOT beautiful.

  

  Rene Russo
  • Beautiful
  • Certain
  • Scared

• I like to think that I know a lot of words, but I definitely don't know all of them.

  

  Elif Batuman
  • Words