Elif Batuman Quotes

One of the stories that really impressed me was 'Anna Karenina.' As a novel, that made an impression on me, showing me what the novel can do.

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• The people, and the people alone, are the motive force in the making of world history.

  

  Mao Zedong
  • People
  • World
  • History

• The viewer must bring their own view to a photograph.

  

  Fay Godwin
  • View
  • Photograph
  • Bring

• Do not share your inventions with many; share them only with the few who understand and love the sciences.

  

  Filippo Brunelleschi
  • Understand
  • Sciences
  • Inventions

• Snowden grants that NSA employees by and large believe in their mission and trust the agency to handle the secrets it takes from ordinary people - deliberately, in the case of bulk records collection, and 'incidentally,' when the content of American phone calls and e-mails are swept into NSA systems along with foreign targets.

  

  Barton Gellman
  • People
  • Believe
  • American

• When you forgive somebody, it doesn't necessarily mean you want to invite them to your table.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • Want
  • Forgive
  • Table

• If I'm not on tour or in the studio, I'm in nature somewhere, usually some kind of ocean. Playing music has afforded me that. It's not lost on me that it's a tremendous opportunity to be able to spend your life being surrounded by nature.

  

  Eddie Vedder Pearl Jam
  • Life
  • Music
  • Nature

• It sounds pretentious to say I 'divide' my time, but when I am home, that usually means my house in Atlanta or my cabin in the North Georgia Mountains. The latter is where I do the majority of my writing.

  

  Karin Slaughter
  • Time
  • Writing
  • Home

• In the '80s, I got tired of the rat race. It was a terrible time for music. I wasn't part of that whole MTV craze. I did 'Go Ahead and Rain,' which was Madeleine Stowe's first bit, but felt no connection to it. I went many years where I didn't have to work.

  

  J. D. Souther
  • Time
  • Work
  • Music

• Let's dare to release our immature fantasies of a magically faultless U.S. system and a magically protected election process. We have been lucky as a nation, but sometimes continued luck depends on action.

  

  Naomi Wolf
  • Action
  • Luck
  • Election

• If I had remained in Lhasa, even without the Chinese occupation, I would probably have carried the ceremonial role in some orthodox way.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Way
  • Chinese
  • Role

• When my family did shy away from Indian food, we'd eat a lot of Chinese. We'd use the wok a lot. I never had a problem with Brussels sprouts or broccoli growing up. I always grew up with the mentality of finishing your plate.

  

  Parvesh Cheena
  • Up
  • Family
  • Growing

• I've become very, very liberal as far as war is concerned. It's just too terrible. I've been to wars and I've seen what happens. I know what it is to be hurt, and it's nothing compared to these guys. To be blind for the rest of your life. To have prosthetic limbs.

  

  Taki Theodoracopulos
  • Life
  • War
  • Rest

• It is unsound for an independent editor to be a financial contributor to any cause which would cause any type of special pleading.

  

  Walter Annenberg
  • Independent
  • Financial
  • Type

• Only those who look with the eyes of children can lose themselves in the object of their wonder.

  

  Eberhard Arnold
  • Children
  • Eyes
  • Wonder

• I think, on the rap side of life, I've always been inspired by and respected Missy Elliott for a long time. She's funny and created an image for herself that was non-sexualized but was really interesting and really cool and really kind of avant-garde in a lot of ways.

  

  K. Flay
  • Life
  • Time
  • Long

• I don't even like to be naked in front of myself!

  

  Camryn Manheim
  • Myself
  • Like
  • Naked

• Silence is ever speaking; it is the perennial flow of language.

  

  Ramana Maharshi
  • Language
  • Silence
  • Flow

• Other people notice the same things but they don't think to put it to music.

  

  Ian Hunter
  • People
  • Music
  • Think

• As artists, we thrive when we can express our comfort and our discomfort. If a certain scene is really challenging for us, if we're in an environment where we feel safe, we're able to do our work.

  

  Aja Naomi King
  • Work
  • Environment

• It is a hard, embittering thing to have one's kind feelings and good intentions cast back in one's teeth.

  

  Anne Bronte
  • Feelings
  • Teeth
  • Embittering

• Destiny's Champion, Fate's fool. Eternity's Soldier, Time's Tool.

  

  Michael Moorcock
  • Fool
  • Champion
  • Soldier

• There was once a little man called Niggle, who had a long journey to make. He did not want to go, indeed the whole idea was distasteful to him; but he could not get out of it. He knew he would have to start some time, but he did not hurry with his preparations.

  

  J. R. R. Tolkien
  • Time
  • Long
  • Journey

• If you have this passion for music, you don't stop doing it - it chooses you and doesn't release you.

  

  Tina Weymouth
  • Music
  • Passion
  • Release

• One of the stories that really impressed me was 'Anna Karenina.' As a novel, that made an impression on me, showing me what the novel can do.

  

  Elif Batuman