Maria Semple Quotes

If I had written something, and I had written myself into a corner, I didn't abandon it. Because I remembered: There's always more.

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• Architecture must not do violence to space or its neighbors.

  

  I. M. Pei
  • Space
  • Violence
  • Architecture

• Whenever I go on the red carpet and I'm a bit nervous, I just say to myself the mantra, 'Come on Barbara, you gotta get those pictures posted on Instagram!' That's all I have in my mind, like, 'Look serious now, maybe give a little smile, but a cheeky one,' but in the end, it's never how it looks.

  

  Barbara Palvin
  • Mind
  • Myself
  • Serious

• I just wanted laughs - that's really what I was after.

  

  Larry David
  • Wanted
  • Really
  • Just

• Duty is for Kant the One and All. Out of the duty of gratitude, he claims, one has to defend and esteem the ancients; and only out of duty has he become a great man.

  

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
  • Great
  • Man
  • Gratitude

• I choose my words very delicately because I have a divided society.

  

  Najib Mikati
  • Society
  • Words
  • Choose

• I root for anyone who's got kids and if they want to make it work.

  

  Tamron Hall
  • Work
  • Kids
  • Want

• I am extremely left brain dominant, probably 95%-5%. The feeling side of my brain is not really strong.

  

  Walter O'Brien
  • Feeling
  • Brain
  • Dominant

• The American Negro has no conception of the hundreds of millions of other non-whites' concern for him: he has no conception of their feeling of brotherhood for and with him.

  

  Malcolm X
  • American
  • Feeling
  • Him

• You get some directors, and I can never understand it - there's a thing they call the 'video village' where all the monitors are, and you've probably seen it on set visits - I hate that! I never, ever like sitting in video village. I get either my own monitor or a hand held monitor, and I stand right by the camera.

  

  Edgar Wright
  • Hate
  • Hand
  • Stand

• It's hard to remember, when you look at a magazine or when you look at pictures of people, and you forget that those people are people like you. They have flaws and insecurities. That's so easy to forget, even for me, as somebody who's sometimes in those magazines.

  

  Dakota Fanning
  • People
  • Remember
  • Me

• I have had to come to terms with the fact that I am hooked on Twitter. Not good.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Twitter

• A good emcee will rhyme a lot of different ways. Don't limit yourself.

  

  Ice T
  • Good
  • Different
  • Yourself

• If it's great stuff, the people who consume it are nourished. It's a positive force.

  

  Manuel Puig
  • People
  • Great
  • Positive

• The only thing I do worry about is that the more films I do the more visible I am going to become as a personality because of press and because of the sheer quantity of films.

  

  Vincent D'Onofrio
  • Worry
  • Personality
  • Films

• A family can develop only with a loving woman as its center.

  

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
  • Family
  • Woman
  • Loving

• The education of peoples is a necessary precondition to peace.

  

  Carlo Azeglio Ciampi
  • Education
  • Peace
  • Necessary

• Common sense is in spite of, not as the result of education.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Education
  • Common Sense

• I got involved in music because I love everything about it, but now I'm in it you see the other side and it isn't much fun. Not as glamorous and enjoyable as you imagine.

  

  Gary Numan
  • Music
  • Love
  • Fun

• I didn't want wrestling anymore; I wanted to not want it. But I couldn't get a job anywhere, which was part of the reason I was homeless. I couldn't get a job pumping gas. I couldn't get a job working at a warehouse, I couldn't get a job at Baskin Robbins, I couldn't get a job anywhere.

  

  T. J. Perkins
  • Job
  • Want
  • Wrestling

• Our life is no dream, but it should and will perhaps become one.

  

  Novalis
  • Life
  • Dream
  • Become

• Let’s not lose our perspective here. The Smokies achieved their natural splendor without the guidance of a national park service and don’t actually need it now.

  

  Bill Bryson
  • Service
  • Perspective

• Men are like lions. We hunt.

  

  Kevin Hart
  • Men

• Ben Miller's writing has left a trail of clear and perfect images lasered permanently in my mind. His imagination is astounding in its breadth and detail, but it is the heart behind the words, the emotion he brings to the smallest moments, that makes me such an admirer of this writer and his work, and has me anxiously awaiting, and cheering for, the publication of River Bend Chronicle.

  

  Hannah Tinti
  • Writing
  • Heart
  • Perfect

• If I had written something, and I had written myself into a corner, I didn't abandon it. Because I remembered: There's always more.

  

  Maria Semple