Caroline Knapp Quotes

Dogs have such short life spans, it's like a concentrated version of a human life. When they get older, they become much more like our mothers. They wait for us, watch out for us, are completely fascinated by everything we do.

Caroline Knapp

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• I've traveled all the way around the world; I've been to over 95 countries, so I love ethnic food, different types of cuisine.

  

  Larry Fitzgerald
  • World
  • Food
  • Countries

• People turn into fools when they see a movie star and do weird things.

  

  Sam Neill
  • People
  • Movie
  • Star

• I tramped. When I was on the freight trains, I wasn't looking for work. I was looking to go from place to place without paying any money.

  

  Utah Phillips
  • Work
  • Money
  • Looking

• I'm the most Colombian of the Colombians, even though I've lived 47 years outside of Colombia. I've lived 13 years in New York, and I never did a painting about New York. I've lived in France more than 30 years, and I've never painted Paris.

  

  Fernando Botero
  • Painting
  • New York
  • Paris

• There needs to be a place in the church or just outside - there needs to be a place where people feel free to ask questions without being put upon, where they feel free to ask difficult, challenging questions to voice their skepticism.

  

  D. A. Carson
  • People
  • Free
  • Church

• I need one psychological expert to help me concentrate.

  

  Dana Hussein
  • Help
  • Me
  • Psychological

• But acting just sort of happened and I found that I loved it. It was such a challenge.

  

  Rachael Leigh Cook
  • Challenge
  • Acting
  • Loved

• People weren't buying as many records. My record company did not want me. I went through three record companies, went on tour at the wrong time. It destroyed me.

  

  Adam Ant Adam and the Ants
  • People
  • Time
  • Want

• How do you sustain yourself when all the old structures people looked to for support - religion, family, ethnic solidarity - are crumbling, or feel so false that you refuse to avail yourself of them? What comes next?

  

  Adam Mansbach
  • People
  • Family
  • Support

• World-building numbs the reader's ability to fulfill their part of the bargain because it believes that it has to do everything around here if anything is going to get done. Above all, world-building is not technically necessary. It is the great clomping foot of nerdism. It is the attempt to exhaustively survey a place that isn't there.

  

  M. John Harrison
  • World
  • Great
  • Done

• An allegory is not meant to be taken literally. There is a great lack of comprehension on the part of some readers.

  

  Naguib Mahfouz
  • Great
  • Taken
  • Some

• You compose because you want to somehow summarize in some permanent form your most basic feelings about being alive, to set down... some sort of permanent statement about the way it feels to live now, today.

  

  Aaron Copland
  • Live
  • Today
  • Feelings

• We all wanted to copy Vivien Leigh.

  

  Natalie Wood
  • Wanted
  • Copy
  • Leigh

• In a few decades of reconstruction, even the mathematical natural sciences, the ancient archetypes of theoretical perfection, have changed habit completely!

  

  Edmund Husserl
  • Habit
  • Natural
  • Perfection

• To tell her that I joined the parachute club was too hard for me. I didn't want to trouble her; besides, I was not completely sure about the success of my new adventure.

  

  Valentina Tereshkova
  • Success
  • Trouble
  • Adventure

• I love radio - its immediacy and especially its intimacy... it is part of your life, whispering into your ear. You can't see it, but equally importantly it can't see you.

  

  Malcolm Turnbull
  • Life
  • Love
  • Radio

• Shinsuke Nakamura is probably one of the best wrestlers I've ever been in the ring with. He's very unorthodox. Everything he does is with knockout power. He's a guy who is very flamboyant, so don't let his Michael Jackson antics fool you. This guy is deadly.

  

  A.J. Styles
  • Power
  • Guy
  • Best

• Dancers, many dancers today can do so much technically. You can give them steps that are complicated, then more complicated, pyrotechnical - and they can execute these steps to perfection. But to do simple steps with a pure classical line, that is truly difficult.

  

  Natalia Makarova
  • Today
  • Simple
  • Perfection

• I love wrestling, and I love the entertainment aspect of wrestling, but the rest of my life, I just want to be able to live and enjoy my life. I don't want to be living it essentially for other people's entertainment.

  

  Daniel Bryan
  • People
  • Life
  • Enjoy

• My parents saw their job of parenting as their most important role in life, and I aim to aspire to that.

  

  Andrew Lincoln
  • Life
  • Important
  • Job

• I have always been fascinated by the human mind, conscious and unconscious - that is what writing and reading is about, too. The why of your life and the why of your choices and the what has happened that you know and the what that you don't know is really riveting, and psychoanalysts share my wonder at how it all unfolds.

  

  Anne Roiphe
  • Life
  • Writing
  • Mind

• And yet this very singleness of vision and thorough oneness with his age is a mark of the successful man. It is as though Nature needs must make men narrow in order to give them force.

  

  W. E. B. Du Bois
  • Men
  • Nature
  • Age

• Dogs have such short life spans, it's like a concentrated version of a human life. When they get older, they become much more like our mothers. They wait for us, watch out for us, are completely fascinated by everything we do.

  

  Caroline Knapp
  • Life