Elif Batuman Quotes

Tolstoy didn't know about steampunk or cyborgs, but he did know about the nightmarishness of steam power, unruly machines, and the creepy half-human status of the Russian peasant classes. In 'Anna Karenina,' nineteenth-century life itself is a relentless, relentlessly modern machine, flattening those who oppose it.

Elif Batuman

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• I feel like I've grown up a bit. I'm a bit more confident, and I've been reading more, and I've had a little more time to myself. I went on this writing trip to gather my thoughts about where and who I am in this world, and why we're all here.

  

  Imogen Heap
  • Up
  • Time
  • World

• I've never been a partier.

  

  Victoria Justice
  • Never
  • Been

• I believe a lot in monogamy, let me tell you.

  

  Candice Bergen
  • Believe
  • Me
  • Tell

• People are patronizing the theatres with renewed enthusiasm - there is an entire picnic-like attitude when families go out to see movies, which is a very good sign. They want to see larger-than-life characters on the big screen and not just watch movies on television or on DVDs.

  

  Salman Khan
  • People
  • Life
  • Good

• You know, as any parent will say, you know, life happens.

  

  Tanya Tucker
  • Life
  • Know
  • Parent

• I have a garden. We have fresh tomatoes and strawberries. People are different here... People out in California, they grow up quicker. They have a lot of excess, and they have a lot more things than we do here in Hungary. There, they start doing makeup when they're 13, when we would still be out in the countryside making sausage.

  

  Barbara Palvin
  • People
  • Up
  • Different

• To understand why dictators have a problem with making peace - or at least a genuine peace - the link between the nature of a regime and its external behavior must be understood.

  

  Natan Sharansky
  • Why
  • Nature
  • Peace

• I've been designing since I was 8. I started sketching dresses I could wear when skating. I was always involved in all aspects of skating, not just the technique, the choreography, the music, but the visual aspects, too - what I should wear.

  

  Vera Wang
  • Music
  • Always
  • Dresses

• People do not seem to realize that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • People
  • World
  • Character

• The local music community here was dying for a place to record, so we started doing acoustic, folk and bluegrass and then did rock projects for other bands, as well as for my son Tal and my own work.

  

  Randy Bachman The Guess Who
  • Work
  • Music
  • Community

• I consider everybody who takes themselves seriously to be a little bit off. And Silicon Valley seems to be the most effusive about how important their contributions are to society.

  

  T. J. Miller
  • Important
  • Society
  • Most

• One thing that is not to be underestimated is American culture's influence on the rest of the world.

  

  Yael Stone
  • World
  • American
  • Culture

• In the quiet moments, the discoveries are made.

  

  Vera Farmiga
  • Moments
  • Made
  • Quiet

• During the Cold War, the U.S. instituted a policy of sending money to governments in poor countries to buy their political loyalty. While studies show that sending aid to foreign governments creates allegiance, it does not lead to economic progress.

  

  Iqbal Quadir
  • Money
  • War
  • Political

• Semiotics is really interested in the questions like, what keeps you watching something, what keeps you - you know, what keeps you listening to a story on the radio? Like, what keeps you turning the pages in a book? What's the pleasure of it that's moving you forward, that's pulling you in and grabbing you and pulling you forward?

  

  Ira Glass
  • Book
  • Moving
  • Listening

• I bartended for a catering company for two or three years.

  

  Hank Azaria
  • Years
  • Company
  • Three

• I think there's always satisfaction that comes from digging in and telling a story and being on the front line and writing about it. I think there's a venue available if you look. Even print journalism is in good shape in areas.

  

  Cameron Crowe
  • Good
  • Writing
  • Journalism

• Violence is one of the most fun things to watch.

  

  Quentin Tarantino
  • Fun
  • Violence
  • Things

• You're not a man, you're a machine.

  

  George Bernard Shaw
  • Man
  • Machine

• Ever since I was a teenager, I always had a very strong sense of my own personal style. Kind of for better or for worse - actually I don't think it's ever been for worse. The way that I dress has always been a pretty accurate reflection of my personality and my life.

  

  Busy Philipps
  • Life
  • Pretty
  • Strong

• If I could, I would not do anything else. I'd just be in the studio for my whole life. I would never go to parties, events, and red carpets. I would rather just be in the studio for the whole time. I don't even care. Nobody has to know what I look like. I just want to make music.

  

  Ariana Grande
  • Life
  • Time
  • Music

• There are very few record companies who will entertain a middle-aged woman coming to them with original material.

  

  Alison Moyet

• Sometimes you have to wander around until you find where you really belong. And sometimes it's right where you started.

  

  Rachel Gibson
  • Sometimes
  • Wander

• Tolstoy didn't know about steampunk or cyborgs, but he did know about the nightmarishness of steam power, unruly machines, and the creepy half-human status of the Russian peasant classes. In 'Anna Karenina,' nineteenth-century life itself is a relentless, relentlessly modern machine, flattening those who oppose it.

  

  Elif Batuman
  • Life
  • Power
  • Creepy