Elizabeth Berg Quotes

No, I never thought that I would be a writer. I had always been told I could write well, but it never occurred to me that I might make my living that way.

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• What our eyes behold may well be the text of life but one's meditations on the text and the disclosures of these meditations are no less a part of the structure of reality.

  

  Wallace Stevens
  • Life
  • May
  • Reality

• What I think I have in common with the school of deconstruction is the mode of negative thinking or negative awareness, in the technical, philosophical sense of the negative, but which comes to me through negative theology.

  

  Harold Bloom
  • Thinking
  • School
  • Negative

• I'm used to doing my jobs like a couple of photo shoots a month and a bit of presenting here and there, but the majority of my days are with the baby.

  

  Abbey Clancy
  • Couple
  • Baby
  • Doing

• In occupied Iraq, the introduction of new paper money took almost a year, 20 or so Boeing 747s, the mobilisation of the U.S. military's might, three printing firms, and hundreds of trucks.

  

  Yanis Varoufakis
  • Money
  • Military
  • Year

• I know that for me, a lot of people will look at me and they'll think 'Somali' or 'outsider' instead of 'Minnesota.'

  

  Halima Aden
  • People
  • Think
  • Know

• All my life, I have been surrounded by the track. The week I was born, Dad took me to training. I do recall at some stage being pushed around in a pram on a track. I have a lot of inspiration from him. To see him carrying the Sydney Olympic torch really ignited my dream. As a coach, he knows the in and outs of race walking and technique.

  

  Dane Bird-Smith
  • Life
  • Dream
  • Dad

• My music is very innovative, in a class by itself. Nobody else is saying anything of value. What I'm trying to do is get people to think, to alter their consciousness. It's not your typical platinum formula for success.

  

  Wendy O. Williams
  • People
  • Music
  • Trying

• Netflix is amazing 'cause they trust the creator to do their job, and they trust us to do our job. They're really smart and just let us do our thing and deliver a great job.

  

  Laura Prepon
  • Great
  • Job
  • Amazing

• What I've always tried to find in my books are points at which the private lives of the characters, and also my own, intersect with the public life of the culture.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Life
  • Culture
  • Find

• One day, I want to make a PG film.

  

  Jackie Chan
  • Want
  • Day
  • Film

• And so there I was living in California from Brooklyn, New York, and it was this whole new world for me and I was meeting vegetarians. I thought, let me try this vegetarian thing. I got really into that.

  

  Warren Cuccurullo Duran Duran
  • World
  • Thought
  • California

• Wearing modest clothing is a belief, and I'm not going to say that every Muslim woman is in my shoes, but the majority of us do have a choice.

  

  Halima Aden
  • Woman
  • Shoes
  • Choice

• Tell me, why is the media here so negative? Why are we in India so embarrassed to recognise our own strengths, our achievements? We are such a great nation. We have so many amazing success stories but we refuse to acknowledge them. Why?

  

  A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  • Great
  • Why
  • Success

• I think that teaching coaches are the norm now.

  

  Oscar Robertson
  • Think
  • Now
  • Coaches

• The lieutenant took his time scanning their visa chips, letting them wait in the drizzle, occasionally making a comment with the idle arrogance common to such nobodies who have just come into a small bit of power.

  

  Dan Simmons
  • Time
  • Power
  • Small

• 'Let them scoff as they see fit! I will never compromise what I consider my art, especially for the sake of gain!''For the sake of gain I’d compromise the art of my grandmother,' muttered Zamp under his breath.

  

  Jack Vance
  • Art
  • Grandmother

• When you say your prayers try to understand

  

  Jon Bon Jovi

• I was in the big leagues my first year in pro ball - pretty fast. I really don't think I had an understanding of what it meant to be a pitcher at that level at that point.

  

  Drew Pomeranz
  • Pretty
  • Understanding

• I learned how not to be alone in the playground.

  

  Emil Ferris
  • Alone

• Cooking is an important part of a good, stable family life. I like to get the family together; there's a huge nurturing element in it.

  

  Jade Jagger
  • Life
  • Good
  • Important

• No, I never thought that I would be a writer. I had always been told I could write well, but it never occurred to me that I might make my living that way.

  

  Elizabeth Berg