Colson Whitehead Quotes

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• Many in Taiwan believe that Hu Jintao is much more sophisticated than his predecessors in understanding Taiwan. He represents a different generation of leaders, more pragmatic, less ideological.

  

  Ma Ying-jeou
  • Believe
  • Different
  • Understanding

• My issue with campaign finance is 100 percent disclosure. Wear a suit with patches from your big contributors. Depending on the size of the contribution, that's how big the patch should be.

  

  Gary Johnson
  • Size
  • Contribution
  • Finance

• I've seen the greatest actors in the world, transcendent talents, who can't find a home.

  

  Laura Linney
  • World
  • Home
  • Greatest

• When my father was arrested, we didn't know where they had him. My mother found him at the house of torture. It was called Villa Triste.

  

  Oriana Fallaci
  • Mother
  • Father
  • House

• We're not handling things anymore before they arrive on our doorstep. I like to feel how thin porcelain can be, run my hand over a textile, see if I want to sit in a chair.

  

  Nate Berkus
  • Want
  • Hand
  • Feel

• If you insist that individual rights are the summum bonum, then the whole structure of society falls down.

  

  B. F. Skinner
  • Society
  • You
  • Down

• I believe every editor should stand to edit. That's just my particular soapbox. Some things are so delicate and depend on such fine, delicate work. One frame in one direction or another can make such a difference and it is, in that, like brain surgery.

  

  Walter Murch
  • Work
  • Believe
  • Brain

• Nonviolent action does not have to get others to be nice. It can in effect force them to consult their consciences.

  

  Barbara Deming
  • Action
  • Nice
  • Be Nice

• He is not only dull in himself, but the cause of dullness in others.

  

  Samuel Foote
  • Others
  • Himself
  • Dull

• Most of us get our history through story.

  

  Yann Martel
  • History
  • Story
  • Through

• On the other hand one must not entertain any fantastic illusions on the productive power of the credit system, so far as it supplies or sets in motion money-capital.

  

  Karl Marx
  • Money
  • Power
  • Hand

• The family feuds or the village feuds often had to do with an idea of honor. Perhaps it was a peasant idea; perhaps this idea of honor is especially important to a society without recourse to law or without confidence in law.

  

  V. S. Naipaul
  • Important
  • Family
  • Society

• Now you fear punishment and beg for your lives, so I will let you free, if not for any other reason so that you can see the difference between a Greek king and a barbarian tyrant, so do not expect to suffer any harm from me. A king does not kill messengers.

  

  Alexander the Great
  • Free
  • Fear
  • King

• I read about two young ladies that went to Parsons, and when they graduated Elizabeth Taylor opened a store for them in Paris and I thought okay-that's all I have to do!

  

  Anna Sui
  • Paris

• Laila (at fourteen years): What would your mother say when she saw you smoke?

  

  Khaled Hosseini
  • Mother
  • Smoke

• Time has not grown so very old since the most prominent members of our profession, though admired by the public eye, and lauded by its tongue, were socially, viewed askance, and regarded as 'merely players.'

  

  Edwin Booth
  • Time

• I like shooting movies in Thailand very much because the government is so cooperative there. The police help you to close the roads for shooting.

  

  Alan Mak
  • Help
  • Police

• When you're a kid growing up, you say you want to make it to the Major Leagues, and when you reach that dream, that's what it's all about.

  

  Joe Morgan
  • Up
  • Dream
  • Growing

• It's incredibly, incredibly difficult to get a movie made.

  

  Joan Cusack
  • Movie

• ...reality is a system, completely ordered and fully intelligible, with which thought in its advance is more and more identifying itself. We may look at the growth of knowledge … as an attempt by our mind to return to union with things as they are in their ordered wholeness…. and if we take this view, our notion of truth is marked out for us. Truth is the approximation of thought to reality … Its measure is the distance thought has travelled … toward that intelligible system … The degree of truth of a particular proposition is to be judged in the first instance by its coherence with experience as a whole, ultimately by its coherence with that further whole, all comprehensive and fully articulated, in which thought can come to rest.

  

  Brand Blanshard
  • Experience
  • Reality
  • Knowledge

• Villa Grande has in many ways symbolized an important, but less than pleasant, part of our history.

  

  Kjell Magne Bondevik
  • Important
  • History

• As a creative crystallizing of the movement beyond the state of Patriarchal Paralysis, this book is an act of Dis-possession; and hence, in a sense beyond the limitations of the label anti-male, it is absolutely Anti-androcrat, A-mazingly Anti-male, Furiously and Finally Female.

  

  Mary Daly
  • Book

• I had my years of struggling. Some of my shows failed miserably, and I was upset by it and it dented my confidence. But I never stopped. I kept going for it.

  

  Regis Philbin
  • Confidence
  • Upset
  • Stopped

• Write what you know.

  Colson Whitehead