Curtis Sittenfeld Quotes

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• Sometimes you have to go up really high to understand how small you really are.

  

  Felix Baumgartner
  • Up
  • High
  • Small

• The survival of artistic modes in which we recognize ourselves, identify ourselves and place ourselves will survive as long as humanity survives.

  

  M. H. Abrams
  • Long
  • Humanity
  • Survival

• I hate bell peppers, which is annoying because they technically have my name all over them.

  

  Lake Bell
  • Hate
  • Name
  • Annoying

• My journey has been that of a character actor.

  

  Harry Carey, Jr.
  • Character
  • Journey
  • Actor

• All who call the Holy Ghost a creature we pity, on the ground that, by this utterance, they are falling into the unpardonable sin of blasphemy against Him.

  

  Saint Basil
  • Sin
  • Creature
  • Holy Ghost

• He passes from lyric to epic poetry in order to speak about the world and the torment in the world through man, rationally and emotionally. The poet then becomes a danger.

  

  Salvatore Quasimodo
  • World
  • Man
  • Poetry

• Through Hamas, Iran has been able to buy itself a seat on the table in talking about the Palestinian issue. And, as a result, through Hamas it does play a role in the issue of the Palestinians, as strange as that should sound.

  

  Abdullah II of Jordan
  • Sound
  • Strange
  • Table

• I'm of the Samuel Goldwyn school of writing: If you need to send a message, call Western Union. Any messages people take away from my books are the ones they see in them.

  

  Tamora Pierce
  • People
  • Writing
  • School

• I feel people care so much about their appearance - which is important, and I do still care about my appearance, but not that much. There's far more to life than that.

  

  Maisie Williams
  • People
  • Life
  • Important

• I made all their videos, apart from the last two, so if you ever see an Abba video on TV then it's my stuff.

  

  Lasse Hallstrom
  • You
  • Made
  • Last

• Watching yourself on screen is always a little weird, but I didn't cringe when I saw myself on 'The Hour.' It actually exceeded my expectations; every shot looks like a vintage postcard and even my most brutally honest friends have said they think it's good.

  

  Oona Chaplin
  • Good
  • Friends
  • Myself

• Rather than just mimic processes in nature, I think we can harness the powers of nature itself and allow it to help us create. That, in a way is what the 'Dune' project is all about.

  

  Magnus Larsson
  • Help
  • Nature
  • Think

• My parents raised me to believe that when one door slams in your face, turn around because there's probably another door opening up somewhere.

  

  Vicki Lawrence
  • Up
  • Believe
  • Parents

• The most important sign in Matthew has to be the restoration of the Jews to the land in the rebirth of Israel.

  

  Hal Lindsey
  • Important
  • Land
  • Jews

• When you love fashion, there is no weekend. Everything just blends together.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • Love
  • Together
  • Fashion

• Religion is too important a matter to its devotees to be a subject of ridicule. If they indulge in absurdities, they are to be pitied rather than ridiculed.

  

  Immanuel Kant
  • Important

• I know the reason why you keep your silence up, No you don't fool me. The hurt doesn't show But the pain still grows It's no stranger to you and me.

  

  Phil Collins Genesis
  • Up
  • Why
  • Pain

• … the dogma that History is just 'one damned thing after another....'

  

  Arnold J. Toynbee
  • History

• The greatest gift I've been given is being naive, because I don't know what I can't do. And when you don't know what you can't do, you think you can do everything.

  

  Kelsea Ballerini

• In my opinion, it gives us freedom, not the ultimate freedom that all nations desire.. but the freedom to achieve it.

  

  Michael Collins
  • Freedom
  • Achieve

• Kyle Baker's work is really funny, but it's also got a very clear vision.

  

  Bill Sienkiewicz
  • Work
  • Funny
  • Vision

• I gotta tell you, Rickey Medlocke lived in some of the most magical years in this world's history. I lived in the '60s. I lived in the '70s, right into the '80s, and man, it was bad to the bone.

  

  Rickey Medlocke Lynyrd Skynyrd
  • History
  • Years
  • Lived

• In time of revolution, with perseverance and courage, a soldier should think nothing impossible.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • Courage
  • Revolution
  • Soldier

• Personally, I have never wished I were a male novelist.

  Curtis Sittenfeld