Carol Shields Quotes
Words are our life. We are human because we use language. So I think we are less human when we use less language.Carol Shields
Quotes to Explore
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Violin playing is a physical art with great traditions behind it.
Vanessa Mae -
Do not measure your loss by itself; if you do, it will seem intolerable; but if you will take all human affairs into account you will find that some comfort is to be derived from them.
Saint Basil -
I've always wanted to work with Warren Beatty.
Quentin Tarantino -
It's a hard life... but if I could, I would do it all again.
Natalia Makarova -
I wanted to publish a book simply to be buried with it; that's all I wanted. I had no ambition beyond that.
Edith Pearlman -
When you're listening to radio and hear the same 20 songs over and over and over, you want a break from it. Sometimes you don't want to hear something that sounds just like everything else on the radio. Eventually, if you hear the same sounds and the same musicians and the same mixes and all of that, it will start to sound like elevator music.
Randy Houser
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The more walking-around money I have, the less I walk around.
Iggy Pop -
I begin with an idea and then it becomes something else.
Pablo Picasso -
Pasta with melted cheese is the one thing I could eat over and over again.
Yotam Ottolenghi -
I studied at the Hebrew University Medical Faculty, graduated, and was an Israel Defense Forces' combat physician on a Navy ship.
Aaron Ciechanover -
I speak to you only as an American who happens to be an American Negro and one who is proud of that heritage. We ask for nothing special. We ask only that we be permitted to compete on an even basis, and if we are not worthy, then the competition shall, per se, eliminate us.
Jackie Robinson -
Dior Couture is like art - they are the art pieces of a fashion house. Each piece is unique and made by hand.
Patrick Demarchelier
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I'm not the type to lay out on the beach, but I do love to work out outside, and that can really take a toll on your skin!
Gabrielle Union -
I love Dr. Hauschka's blue mascara. It's not so blue that it's like, 'What's wrong with you?' It's more like a secret that you're wearing it.
Lake Bell -
My father moved out to Park City in in the mid-'70s and lived in a Winnebago behind a hippie joint called Utah Coal & Lumber that was one of only two or three restaurants at that time. Park City was a sleepy little mining town, with not a condo in sight.
Ira Sachs -
I've been training quite hard.
Katarina Johnson-Thompson -
I'm a lot more interested in people than I used to be. I used to be most interested in abstract ideas, and people were an afterthought, but that's changed a bit.
Malcolm Gladwell -
Whenever I hear that I'm on the brink of stardom, I feel like I want to run into a cave.
Kate Bosworth
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Mock on, mock on, Voltaire, Rousseau! Mock on, mock on: 'Tis all in vain! You throw the sand against the wind, And the wind blows it back again. And every sand becomes a gem Reflected in the beams divine; Blown back they blind the mocking eye, But still in Israel's paths they shine. The atoms of Democritus And Newton's particles of light Are sands upon the Red Sea shore, Where Israel's tents do shine so bright.
William Blake -
I've been very active all my life. I was a combat instructor in the Israeli Army.
Gal Gadot -
I've chosen to treat my life more like a party than something to stress about.
Martin Short -
Well, I grew up in the Bay Area, so I've been in earthquakes before.
Joe Morgan -
Finally, as you walk the difficult path with others - as you lean into their strength - stay focused on forward motion. Learn from the past, yes, especially if there are choices you could have made differently - that's Wisdom 101. But you must also embrace the present and realize that you can't change the past. You must move forward with courage, not rushing things, but not staying fixated on whatever trauma has occurred.
Brian Houston -
Words are our life. We are human because we use language. So I think we are less human when we use less language.
Carol Shields