Lionel Trilling Quotes

Being a Jew is like walking in the wind or swimming: you are touched at all points and conscious everywhere.

Lionel Trilling

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: critic
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: July 4, 1905 - November 5, 1975

Topics

WindSwimmingWalkingYouBeing

We have this idea of bureaucracy in local government, and it's generally things that we're frustrated at. It doesn't work the way we like it to work.

Jennifer Pahlka

WorkGovernmentBureaucracyWayIdea

If you feel alienated from people around you, it's because no one tries to understand you.

Robert Smith

PeopleFeelYouUnderstandBecause

I don't think you can be good in life without acknowledging the part of you that isn't good.

Jeff Tweedy

LifeGoodThinkYouWithoutPart

Younger people obviously are more likely to openly express their political affiliations in terms of gear.

John Quelch

PeoplePoliticalMoreYoungerGear

I wake up every morning bolt upright, whether it's a commercial, not that that's a good thing or a bad thing, because I shoot commercials in between movies. But whether it's a commercial or a movie where I'm shooting a major train wreck, the thing that worries me most is when I'm doing a performance thing.

Tony Scott

GoodMorningMePerformanceWake Up

Acting is not about knowing all this stuff; it's about character.

Ron Silver

CharacterActingKnowingStuffAbout

I'd move to Los Angeles if New Zealand and Australia were swallowed up by a tidal wave, if there was a bubonic plague in England and if the continent of Africa disappeared from some Martian attack.

Russell Crowe

WaveLos AngelesNewAustraliaUp

I tend not to know what the plot is or the story is or even the theme. Those things come later, for me.

Michael Ondaatje

MeStoryKnowThemeThingsPlot

I'm just growing old, darling. I don't know about gracefully.

Judy Parfitt

Growing OldGrowingKnowOldDarling

Cable and satellite businesses are competing against fixed-line telephone companies and wireless companies.

Jay Samit

TelephoneCompetingAgainstWireless

It's a very dull thing to watch, a writer at work. So dull that whole casts of characters show up just to watch the boring writer writing.

Debi Gliori

WorkWritingBoringUpWatchWhole

I wouldn't mind being a bit taller.

Conor Maynard

MindBeingTallerBit

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