Caroline Knapp Quotes

Solitude is a breeding ground for idiosyncrasy, and I relish that about it, the way it liberates whim.

Caroline Knapp

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• I'm driven more by my heart more than anything else, and my head, and sometimes those things are counterintuitive.

  

  Malcolm D. Lee
  • Heart
  • Sometimes
  • Head

• In the '70s, my playing was completely untutored, but it sounded good to me, and I tried to find ways to make those very simple things work in more ambitious contexts.

  

  Walter Becker Steely Dan
  • Good
  • Work
  • Simple

• Our take was that if we are going to support our customers, we have to help them with video distribution, whether that is iPad, TV, small screen or large screen.

  

  Hans Vestberg
  • Help
  • Small
  • Support

• Actors and directors work on things together. That's how I like to work, anyway. I don't want to be told what to do. I want to share it with someone and work it out together.

  

  Felicity Jones
  • Work
  • Together
  • Want

• By the time I came out, that kind of stopped it. The bullying stopped when I claimed myself and proved that I wasn't afraid. A lot of it was when I was hiding when I was younger.

  

  Randy Harrison
  • Time
  • Myself
  • Bullying

• I hate diets. Restriction makes me feel rebellious. I find that I look my best when I feel my best, whatever that takes. For me, above all else, it means being around the people I want to be with.

  

  Naomi Watts
  • People
  • Hate
  • Best

• 'Later he tried to keep a straight face as he mockingly confessed: 'While we were away, I found God.' He rambled on about the Bible before concluding, 'We found God. He was right in our stomachs...''(The rambling had to do with finding a Bible in every hotel room, 'Every hotel has Holy Bibles.')

  

  Eddie Vedder Pearl Jam
  • God
  • Bible

• Savage and furious nations, perpetually at war, adore, under diverse names, some God, conformable to their ideas, that is to say, cruel, carnivorous, selfish, blood-thirsty.

  

  Baron d'Holbach
  • God
  • War
  • Selfish

• Even working from nature you have to compose.

  

  Edgar Degas
  • Nature

• One of the limits of reality Presents itself in Oley when the hay, Baked through long days, is piled in mows. It is A land too ripe for enigmas, too serene.… Things stop in that direction and since they stop The direction stops and we accept what is As good. The utmost must be good and is…

  

  Wallace Stevens
  • Good
  • Long
  • Reality

• A nightcap decked his brows instead of bay,A cap by night — a stocking all the day!

  

  Oliver Goldsmith
  • Night

• Nothing helps you sleep at night so much as being absolutely certain that you're right, and everyone else is evil.

  

  Laurell K. Hamilton
  • Night
  • Evil
  • Sleep

• There is a constitutional right for people to own guns, but there's also a constitutional right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness...

  

  Hillary Clinton
  • People
  • Life

• So in the Libyan fable it is toldThat once an eagle, stricken with a dart,Said, when he saw the fashion of the shaft,'With our own feathers, not by others' hands,Are we now smitten.'

  

  Aeschylus
  • Fashion

• What IS is more important than WHAT SHOULD BE. To many people are looking at 'what is' from a position of thinking 'what should be.'

  

  Bruce Lee
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Important

• We should venture on the study of every kind of animal without distaste; for each and all will reveal to us something natural and something beautiful.

  

  Aristotle
  • Beautiful
  • Study
  • Animal

• Sometimes I think of movie acting as advanced pretend.

  

  Jeff Bridges
  • Movie

• You have to do what you want to do, and I genuinely believe that if you start interacting in the world that way that there is a respect in that.

  

  Andy Grammer
  • World
  • Believe
  • Respect

• One has to remember that every failure can be a stepping stone to something better.

  

  Colonel Sanders
  • Remember
  • Failure
  • Stone

• The thing is, Jesus died for us so we should be able to die for Him. It is an important question to ask yourself.

  

  Sadie Robertson
  • Important
  • Die
  • Question

• Solitude does not consist in living alone; it consists in living with others, with people who take no interest in you.

  

  Octave Mirbeau
  • People
  • Live
  • Alone

• A person who finds silence and solitude boring is a person who is himself boring, empty of anything worth consideration.

  

  Ted Dekker
  • Silence
  • Solitude
  • Boring

• As runners, we all go through many transitions-- transitions that closely mimic the larger changes we experience in a lifetime. First, we try to run faster. Then we try to run harder. Then we learn to accept ourselves and our limitations, and at last, we can appreciate the true joy and meaning of running.

  

  Amby Burfoot
  • Trying
  • Running
  • Joy

• Solitude is a breeding ground for idiosyncrasy, and I relish that about it, the way it liberates whim.

  

  Caroline Knapp
  • Solitude