Curtis Sittenfeld Quotes

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• There is, therefore, no solution possible other than an economy directed by the workers through their organisations of control-through the workers' syndicates.

  

  Federica Montseny
  • Control
  • Economy
  • Possible

• The Harvard Law states: Under controlled conditions of light, temperature, humidity, and nutrition, the organism will do as it damn well pleases.

  

  Larry Wall
  • Law
  • Light
  • Nutrition

• I've programmed myself musically to come up with love-feeling tracks that are romantic, sexy, but classy, all in one. And that's the challenge. Once I create that music, then the lyrical content starts to come - you know, the stories and things like that.

  

  R. Kelly
  • Up
  • Music
  • Feeling

• It may be added, to prevent misunderstanding, that when I speak of contemplated objects in this last phrase as objects of contemplation, the act of contemplation itself is of course an enjoyment.

  

  Samuel Alexander
  • May
  • Speak
  • Act

• I'm into menswear slacks that are comfortable.

  

  Rachel Bilson
  • Comfortable

• Rights that do not flow from duty well performed are not worth having.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Duty
  • Rights
  • Flow

• Nobody wants to be against technology, but I think that regulators should not - and people should not - assume that faster is always better in markets.

  

  Bart Chilton
  • People
  • Technology
  • Better

• I have never read any Tolstoy. I felt badly about this until I read a Bill Simmons column where he confessed that he'd never seen 'The Big Lebowski.' Simmons, it should be pointed out, has seen everything. He said that everyone needs to have skipped at least one great cultural touchstone.

  

  Malcolm Gladwell
  • Great
  • Never
  • Said

• I was walking around bored one day, and I started filming stuff with my cellphone. There are all these shows where people are trying to do these outrageous stunts, and I thought it would be funny to do all these stunts that aren't outrageous but then act like they are.

  

  Harland Williams
  • People
  • Trying
  • Funny

• I struggled with the pressure of having the successful record after the first record. Second album syndrome. I'm living proof; it's very real.

  

  Flume
  • Real
  • Successful
  • Pressure

• If you hunger for certain types of clothes, for which you have little use, put yourself on a diet. Just as you resist too much whipped cream and French pastry to keep your figure in shape, you can say no to those yearned-for but unneeded purchases that lead to a wardrobe that is shapeless and without form.

  

  Edith Head
  • Yourself
  • Hunger
  • Diet

• Here's the thing - I'm single, I haven't been married, I don't have kids yet. If I do have kids I would be interested to see them in my life, so here's a movie for kids and I'm in there and I'm supposed to be kind of funny for kids.

  

  Garry Shandling
  • Life
  • Kids
  • Movie

• We fought like heck for every player and every advantage, but we knew we were part of something bigger than ourselves. To me, that is what baseball is all about. I hope it is always what baseball is all about.

  

  Pat Gillick
  • Hope
  • Player
  • Baseball

• Now there is one outstandingly important fact regarding Spaceship Earth, and that is that no instruction book came with it.

  

  R. Buckminster Fuller
  • Important
  • Book
  • Earth

• America is not a wily, sneaky nation. We don't think that way. We don't think much at all, thank God.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • God
  • America
  • Thank God

• Goddam money. It always ends up making you blue as hell.

  

  J. D. Salinger
  • Up
  • Money
  • Blue

• People have different views of how you deal with different issues in literature, and, frankly, long may it last that there is a range of views.

  

  Kate Mosse
  • People
  • Different
  • Long

• Eloquence wins its great and enduring fame quite as much from the benches of our opponents as from those of our friends.

  

  Tacitus
  • Great
  • Friends
  • Winning

• If you refuse to study anatomy, the arts of drawing and perspective, the mathematics of aesthetics, and the science of color, let me tell you that this is more a sign of laziness than of genius.

  

  Salvador Dali
  • Science
  • Study
  • Genius

• It's heartbreaking to see so many people trapped in a web of enforced idleness, deep debt, and gnawing self-doubt.

  

  Bill Clinton
  • People
  • Web
  • Self-Doubt

• Bullying has existed forever. Everyone has dealt with it, and teenagers, regardless of where they are, are dealing with the same stuff growing up.

  

  Katherine Langford
  • Up
  • Growing
  • Forever

• I think when you get on with the actors that you're working with, even if you do have really intimate scenes, as long as you get on well, and have a bit of a laugh while doing it, then it's fine.

  

  Saoirse Ronan
  • Thinking
  • Long
  • Laughing

• I just write the books that I think I would want to read.

  Curtis Sittenfeld