Elif Safak Quotes

I love commuting between languages just like I love commuting between cultures and cities.

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• When a show has gotten as much attention as this one, everyone wants to join in with something to say.

  

  Edie Falco
  • Attention
  • Say
  • Everyone

• Sometimes fitness is a good thing to have, but you have to recognise that fitness takes you only so far, and skills are the most important thing. Fitness just helps you execute those cricketing skills for longer and more consistently, maybe.

  

  Rahul Dravid
  • Good
  • Important
  • Skills

• There is no such thing as being too independent.

  

  Victoria Billings
  • Independent
  • Being
  • Too

• I'm just like any person who is coaching in this league, I'm just looking for an opportunity, that's all.

  

  Patrick Ewing
  • Opportunity
  • Just
  • Coaching

• Ironically, my paintings don't photograph well.

  

  Damian Loeb
  • Photograph
  • Well
  • Paintings

• I have a view that if you build something that's good, and you keep making it better, it lasts.

  

  Adam D'Angelo
  • Good
  • Better
  • View

• Say there are three identical-looking pizza joints on a street. Two of those will always be empty. The third will have a line of people patiently waiting, checking their phones. There's always one place that's the place. That's how it works.

  

  Hari Kunzru
  • People
  • Waiting
  • Pizza

• I do have a sister - I have two sisters.

  

  Tayari Jones
  • Sister
  • Two
  • Sisters

• I know what it feels like to walk out in front of a sold-out crowd of a thousand people that are there for you, and how good that feels, but as an opener, you just have to train yourself to think that it's going to be harder.

  

  G-Eazy
  • People
  • Good
  • Yourself

• I had lived all of my youthful dreams, but I couldn't think of many adult ones. I finally realized that we don't have many dreams for adults because, historically, people have always died much younger than they do today.

  

  Jack Gilbert
  • People
  • Today
  • Dreams

• I love being new places and hate getting there, and have been known to say on multiple occasions that I would give anything from a piece of my soul to a limb to a portion of my life savings to teleport. Especially when bad weather keeps me off planes.

  

  V. E. Schwab
  • Life
  • Soul
  • Hate

• As a pastor, I have a deep desire to lead people to God and encourage people to pray, read the Bible, and carry their faith into every part of their lives.

  

  Adam Hamilton
  • People
  • God
  • Faith

• Each of us inevitable;Each of us limitless-each of us with his or her right upon the earth.

  

  Walt Whitman
  • Earth

• These masters of the universe must be tamed in the interests of the ordinary families whose jobs and livelihoods are being put at risk... The Tories won't say anything about the current crisis as they are completely in the pockets of the hedge funds.

  

  Vince Cable
  • Universe
  • Risk

• Fashion is a way of not having to decide who you are. Style is deciding who you are and being able to perpetuate it.

  

  Quentin Crisp
  • Fashion
  • Style

• Nicht das Bewußtsein bestimmt das Leben, sondern das Leben bestimmt das Bewußtsein.

  

  Karl Marx

• If the Church, white or black, is to express the true philosophy of Jesus Christ, Himself a worker, it will not lend itself to the creed of oppressive capitalism which would deny to the servant his just hire.

  

  A. Philip Randolph
  • True
  • Black
  • Church

• If it is not profitable for the common good that authority should be retained, it ought to be relinquished.

  

  Barbara W. Tuchman
  • Good

• Fat girl, terrestrial, my summer, my night, How is it I find you in difference, see you there In a moving contour, a change not quite completed? You are familiar yet an aberration.

  

  Wallace Stevens
  • Night
  • Girl
  • Moving

• Black Power was really a major challenge to the social privileges and structures of the kind of privilege that I had grown up with. That whole belief... that you will only be able to advance if you are perfectly behaved, if you present yourself as what white people would consider an ideal of whiteness... all of that just began to burst open.

  

  Margo Jefferson
  • People
  • Up
  • Power

• As an only child, particularly if you're a boy without a father, you have to work out for yourself who you're going to be. And I do think, over the years, I've developed a need for control.

  

  Mark Strong
  • Work
  • Father
  • Control

• Human nature is not simple and any classification that roughly divides men into good and bad, superior and inferior, slave and free, is and must be ludicrously untrue and universally dangerous as a permanent exhaustive classification.

  

  W. E. B. Du Bois
  • Good
  • Men
  • Bad

• I love commuting between languages just like I love commuting between cultures and cities.

  

  Elif Safak