Marilynne Robinson Quotes
I remember when I was a child... walking into the woods by myself and feeling the solitude around me build like electricity and pass through my body with a jolt that made my hair prickle.Marilynne Robinson
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Yet, despite our many advances, our environment is still threatened by a range of problems, including global climate change, energy dependence on unsustainable fossil fuels, and loss of biodiversity.
Dan Lipinski -
Remain calm, serene, always in command of yourself. You will then find out how easy it is to get along.
Paramahansa Yogananda -
Never do anything when you are in a temper, for you will do everything wrong.
Baltasar Gracian -
Reverence is fatal to literature.
E. M. Forster -
A lot of news is just entertainment masquerading as news.
Nate Silver -
There are some people who leave impressions not so lasting as the imprint of an oar upon the water.
Kate Chopin
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I had studied at Harvard and MIT astronomy and a lot about the heavens and the star system and so forth.
Edgar Mitchell -
You learn to control every aspect of your muscles, your face, your toes, your fingernails. And that is how you tell a story, through movement.
Karlie Kloss -
I want to be judged by who I am, not by a relationship.
Rand Paul -
I didn't know a thing about Oxford and had never been to Britain. My father suggested it because in 1939 he had been about to take up a place at Wadham College, but the war broke out, and he joined the Army instead.
Tariq Ali -
I will say that the food in both Japan and Italy was immaculate. I don't remember having bad food in either country.
Daniel Gillies -
I am always late because people stop me for autographs and say hi.
Natalie du Toit
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I am a Facebook voyeur. I feel bad about it because I never put anything on there, but I find it fun to sit there and watch peoples' lives go by. Or whatever lives they're presenting.
Eddie Kaye Thomas -
I'm not in demand. I'm all washed up.
Sam Shepard -
Cinematic icons of the police detective are more male role models than female.
Frances McDormand -
Whenever anyone calls me 'The new J..K. Rowling,' I think, 'What's wrong with the old one?'
Samantha Shannon -
I just can't see myself as a trophy wife. I can't imagine not having my own life.
Tamara Mellon -
Don't be afraid to look silly.
Tara Strong
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When you write a story, it just flows and you don't control it. It's subconscious.
Imtiaz Ali -
It was heavy, and I staggered when I lifted it; but it was strangely satifying to have a real burden upon my shoulders – a kind of counterweight to my terrible heaviness of heart.
Sarah Waters -
We transform the world, but we don't remember it. We adjust our baseline to the new level, and we don't recall what was there.
Daniel Pauly -
I remember when I first went to the Baltimore Museum of Art and I bought this little Moreau print in the gift shop. I took it home, and I was, like, 12 years old or something.
John Waters -
I remember when I was a child... walking into the woods by myself and feeling the solitude around me build like electricity and pass through my body with a jolt that made my hair prickle.
Marilynne Robinson