Timothy Morton Quotes

An artist attunes to what things are, which means sort of listening to the future, which is just how things are - I think time is a sort of liquid that pours out of hatpins, underground trains, salt crystals. So a work of art is also listening to itself, because what it is never quite coincides with how it appears, too.

Timothy Morton

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I do better just letting the stories develop. I don't outline very well, and I can't follow it if I do. Once I've outlined it, why write the damn book?

Joe R. Lansdale

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I remember looking to McDonald's, and, my God, they have 13,000 restaurants in the United States. Well, we have almost a couple thousand Chipotles. What if Pizzeria Locale is a few thousand, and Shod. All of a sudden, we're bigger than McDonald's in the U.S. I mean, that's not an unreasonable way to think about this.

Steve Ells

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When I have the Bible memorised, then I'll be able to go and read a couple other books.

Stephen Baldwin

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I grew up listening to Beethoven and old jazz singers like Billie Holiday, Nina Simone and Anita O'Day. But those were, like, the only women I listened to - I hated women pop singers.

Sophie B. Hawkins

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I really tried out for the part of Harry Potter, but they ended up picking me for the part of the enemy of Harry. Actually it is really fun playing the bad kid because it just has so many interesting qualities to it. And Daniel Radcliffe and I get along really well off set so it's really fun filming.

Tom Felton

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I have always been restless, had a lot of energy.

Riz Ahmed

EnergyAlwaysRestlessBeenLotHad

The world can only be grasped by action, not by contemplation. The hand is the cutting edge of the mind.

Diane Arbus

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I tell everybody, 'If you want to get to know me, if you listen to those three records, you'll have a really good idea.' They were released at different time periods in my life, and those are the things I was going through.

Brantley Gilbert

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Reason is the historian, but passions are the actors.

Antoine Rivarol

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I don't know that we really think any thoughts; we think connections between thoughts. That's where the mind moves, that's what's new, and the thoughts themselves have probably been there in my head or lots of other people's heads for a long time.

Anne Carson

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It is any wife's dream to lead a normal life with her family.

Winnie Madikizela-Mandela

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Art thou the King of the Jews?

Pontius Pilate

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