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.
Quotes to Explore
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Violin playing is a physical art with great traditions behind it.
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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.
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I've always wanted to work with Warren Beatty.
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It's a hard life... but if I could, I would do it all again.
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I wanted to publish a book simply to be buried with it; that's all I wanted. I had no ambition beyond that.
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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.
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The more walking-around money I have, the less I walk around.
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I begin with an idea and then it becomes something else.
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Pasta with melted cheese is the one thing I could eat over and over again.
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I studied at the Hebrew University Medical Faculty, graduated, and was an Israel Defense Forces' combat physician on a Navy ship.
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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.
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Dior Couture is like art - they are the art pieces of a fashion house. Each piece is unique and made by hand.
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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!
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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.
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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.
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I've been training quite hard.
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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.
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Whenever I hear that I'm on the brink of stardom, I feel like I want to run into a cave.
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When Marxist dictators shoot their way into power in Central America, the San Francisco Democrats don't blame the guerrillas and their Soviet allies. They blame United States policies of 100 years ago. But then they always blame America first.
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In general, questions are fine; you can always seize upon the parts of them that interest you and concentrate on answering those. And one has to remember when answering questions that asking questions isn't easy either, and for someone who's quite shy to stand up in an audience to speak takes some courage.
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His peculiar gift was the power of holding continuously in his mind a purely mental problem until he had seen it through.
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My time in Weimar Berlin was the most elegant in my life. I would have parties for a hundred people - writers, scientists, artists.
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On some level any appearance on Television can be seen as a product endorsement.
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Words are our life. We are human because we use language. So I think we are less human when we use less language.
