"My narrators tend to be women with low self-esteem, so I can send them to charm school."

-- Elinor Lipman

#Self Esteem Quotes #School Quotes #Narrators Quotes

“Nostalgia in reverse, the longing for yet another strange land, grew especially strong in spring.”
“History was like some vast thing that was always over the tight horizon, invisible except in its effects. It was what happened when you weren't looking -- an unknowable infinity of events, which although out of control, controlled everything.”

Source : Kim Stanley Robinson (2003). “Red Mars”, p.348, Spectra
“The problem of making artists talk about their work is that when they're making their work the left-brain is shut off. So if you talk to an artist about it, you're talking to someone who wasn't there. It's hopeless. And also it's insulting. It's implying that the work is not an adequate account of itself. To me, the greatest artists are almost entirely non-verbal.”

Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com
“An undying hatred, and a wound never to be healed.”
“Just the minute the FBI begins making recommendations on what should be done with its information, it becomes a Gestapo.”

Source : Look magazine, June 14, 1956.
“There was unusual unanimity on our pastoral responsibility to care for the immigrants in our midst no matter their country of origin or religious affiliation.”
“Losing is essential to anyone's success. The more you lose, the more you want to win.”
“...You don't always get what you expect. I wish someone, sometime when I was growing up, would have told me what expectations would get me. ... Our parents, schools, everyone tells us things will be a certain way when we're adults and if they're not that way, we should make them be; or at least pretend. But after a certain point that just doesn't work.”

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