Nicholson Baker Quotes
Until a friend or relative has applied a particular proverb to your own life, or until you've watched him apply the proverb to his own life, it has no power to sway you.Nicholson Baker
Quotes to Explore
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Whenever you choose power over love, you will never find true happiness.
Karen Salmansohn -
The other deals with my life and my livelihood and my family and all that I stand for.
Rafael Palmeiro -
Generally, I like making my own mistakes and learning from them because that's what I think life is about.
Taylor Momsen -
Whenever we seek to avoid the responsibility for our own behavior, we do so by attempting to give that responsibility to some other individual or organization or entity. But this means we then give away our power to that entity.
M. Scott Peck -
You must go after your wish. As soon as you start to pursue a dream, your life wakes up and everything has meaning.
Barbara Sher -
One thing I didn't understand in life was that I had $100,000,000 in the bank and I couldn't buy happiness. I had everything: mansions, yachts, Ferraris, Lamborghinis, but I was depressed. I didn't know where I fitted in. But then I found family and friends and I learned the value of life.
Vanilla Ice
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I love being a mom. But there's a certain kind of tedium to your life when your kid is young. Writing allows you to wander when your kid is napping in a crib ten feet away. So that's the great joy of writing fiction for me.
Gayle Forman -
Choosing forgiveness opens the door of your heart and makes way for a miracle in your life.
Victoria Osteen -
Recreating the experience of, say, bereavement in my own head is pretty rough. I was used to switching off from emotions every day of my working life as a journalist, but in fiction, you have to feel it 100%, or else it's a flat experience for the reader.
Karen Traviss -
Those who prepared for all the emergencies of life beforehand may equip themselves at the expense of joy.
E. M. Forster -
I had spent time in New York, where I loved the idea that theater could be done up in tiny little rooms rather than for lots of money on a big stage, and be tied to ordinary life.
Garry Hynes -
Where there is love there is life.
Mahatma Gandhi
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Every man's life is a fairy tale written by God's fingers.
Hans Christian Andersen -
If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself that you are not poet enough to call forth its riches; for the Creator, there is no poverty.
Rainer Maria Rilke -
I'd always been a news junkie, always read lots of newspapers and watched the Sunday morning news shows on TV and felt strongly about issues of power, control, sexuality and race.
Barbara Kruger -
To be a good actor you have to feel life and observe life.
Lane Garrison -
You find no man, at all intellectual, who is willing to leave London. No, Sir, when a man is tired of London, he is tired of life; for there is in London all that life can afford.
Samuel Johnson -
As an actor, you spend a lot of your life in hotel rooms.
Natalie Dormer
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I guess the argument of contextuality is that anything is okay as long as it's done by people who are sufficiently unlike you.
P. J. O'Rourke -
Be it a video game, comic book, or cheque book, the question always is, 'What story do you have to tell?'
Duncan Jones -
We're predators; we don't eat meat because it's handy, we eat meat because we have a taste for blood.
Jeff Lindsay -
An artist must pass judgment only on what he understands; his range is limited as that of any other specialist—that's what I keep repeating and insisting upon. Anyone who says that the artist's field is all answers and no questions has never done any writing or had any dealings with imagery. An artist observes, selects, guesses and synthesizes.
Anton Chekhov -
I take an active role in my imaging and how I look.
Toni Braxton -
Until a friend or relative has applied a particular proverb to your own life, or until you've watched him apply the proverb to his own life, it has no power to sway you.
Nicholson Baker