Marilynne Robinson Quotes
Writing nonfiction has been my most serious education, and for all those years it kept me from even glancing in the direction of despair.Marilynne Robinson
Quotes to Explore
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Magneto wants to cope with the difficulties thrust upon him by society and by his own nature.
Ian Mckellen -
Life consists in what a man is thinking of all day.
Ralph Waldo Emerson -
I realized that women's liberation is men's liberation, too.
Warren Farrell -
I study what's happening in music. I want to sound different than everybody else.
Sam Hunt -
Stillness of person and steadiness of features are signal marks of good breeding.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. -
The journalistic endeavor - at least theoretically - is grounded in objectivity. The goal is to get you to understand what happened, when and to whom.
Victor LaValle
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I grew up in uptown Jamaica; I went to a rich school. I was raised by my mother and my stepfather; they made sure education came before anything. I had a good childhood, grew up spending time with my bigger brothers and sisters. My people are good people. I was exposed to a lot of different kinds of people and culture.
Damian Marley -
I got into politics because businessmen should be spending your money.
Ralph Norman -
It's very likely that I will finish my career as Swiss national coach.
Ottmar Hitzfeld -
Archery requires very sensitive muscles.
Im Dong-Hyun -
There comes a point in nearly every book event I've done when a little feminist revolt stirs inside the crowd.
Hanna Rosin -
By trade, I am a software programmer, so I never really had any experience with movies before. I started out with 'Paranormal Activity.'
Oren Peli
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I did do some Shakespeare on film, it's really difficult. It's really interesting, because I was doing a series in Canada called 'Slings and Arrows' and it was about a company based around the Stratford Festival.
Rachel McAdams -
That's really my goal now. I'm trying to be a positive role model to my kids and to just enjoy this ride, because it's hard. It's hard to enjoy it when you're in it.
Taylor Dayne -
Hillary Clinton almost got to be president. The reasons why she didn't become president had to do with bad judgments about how to handle the early caucus states, which is not a gender-specific trait.
Gail Collins -
My mom has always been my support system. She taught me to never give up and to keep pursuing my passions no matter what.
Mandy Moore -
Between Prince and my dad's fusion-jazz records, I didn't have a choice in being funky.
Patrick Stump Fall Out Boy -
I myself consider myself the most powerful figure in the world.
Idi Amin
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Though the most be players, some must be spectators.
Ben Jonson -
I took lots of photographs and had planned to write a treatise on how it worked, but I quickly got bored with that idea and wrote a scientific fairy tale instead.
Kit Williams -
There are no idealists in the plant world and no compassion. The rose and the morning glory know no mercy. Bindweed, the morning glory, will quickly choke its competitors to death, and the fencerow rose will just as quietly crowd out any other plant that tried to share its roothold. Idealism and mercy are human terms and human concepts.
Hal Borland -
After my time in Holland, an inner battle ensued in which I tried to free myself from the influence of Schinkelesque classicism.
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe -
I never was for telephones. Just don't like them, that's all. Anybody wants to talk to you, they can come to see you.
Sam Crawford -
Writing nonfiction has been my most serious education, and for all those years it kept me from even glancing in the direction of despair.
Marilynne Robinson