Lily Koppel famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

There is something so hopeful about a diary, a journal, a new notebook, which Joan Didion and Virginia Woolf both wrote about. A blog. Perhaps we all are waiting for someone to discover us.
-- Lily Koppel

#Notebook #Hopeful #Waiting
I'm not a space writer, obviously, but I had bought this big photo book of the moon landing. You just get attached to certain stories that don't let you go.
-- Lily Koppel

#Book #Moon #Letting You Go
Maybe the '50s and '60s were more awkward because everyone knew there were things under the surface, but no one talked about them.
-- Lily Koppel

#Awkward
I think Americans today look at the moon and think of it like apple pie or Coca-Cola. It's American. We planted our flag there. We see ourselves in it and don't like the idea of anyone else taking over the moon.
-- Lily Koppel

#Moon #Thinking #Today
I've met a lot of the astronauts, which was such an incredible experience. They're all very macho guys, like fighter pilots, but then there's a mysticism about them.
-- Lily Koppel

#Guy #Fighter #Incredibles
Americans are obsessed with wild, outlandish things. Marilyn Monroe, Mickey Mouse, and Michael Jackson are all wild, outlandish things.
-- Lily Koppel

#Obsessed #Mice #Outlandish

When the landscape buckles and jerks around, when a dust column of debris rises from the collapse of a block of buildings on bodies that could have been your own, when the staves of history fall awry and the barrel of time bursts apart, some turn to prayer, some to poetry: words in the memory, a stained book carried close to the body, the notebook scribbled by hand--a center of gravity.
Keep it simple: own as little as you can get away with, schedule everything, keep a notebook, don't let technology enslave you.
I'm lost, but I'm hopeful.
I never met a hopeful Christian who didn't read their Bible.
The inevitable has always found me ready and hopeful.
Confidence is the mark of a hopeful disposition.
Real serious waiting is done in waiting rooms, and what they all have in common is their purpose, or purposelessness, if you will; they are places for doing nothing and they have no life of their own. ... their one constant is what might be called a decorative rigor mortis ...
Waiting is a large part of living. Great, passive, negative chunks of our time are consumed by waiting, from birth to death. Waiting is a special kind of activity - if activity is the right word for it - because we are held in enforced suspension between people and places, removed from the normal rhythms of our days and lives.
Maybe some are so busy waiting, they forget what indescribable beauty is right there in front of them.
By bringing current events into the classroom, everyday discussion, and social media, maybe we don't need to wait for our grandchildren's questions to remind us we should have paid more attention to current events.

Lily Koppel famous quotes

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