Elizabeth Gilbert Quotes

These days I settle for feeling only 85 percent sure about most things, most of the time. I believe this is keeping me sane, and I also believe that it's keeping me human. In fact, I'm 85 percent sure of it.

Elizabeth Gilbert

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TimeMeBelieveFeelingSettleDays

Nobody now is going from department to another department. Only Walt did that. I was very fond of him, really.

John Hench

NobodyNowHimGoingOnlyDid

It was less a literary thing than a linguistic, philosophical preoccupation... discovering how far you can go with language to create immediate, elementary experience.

Robert Morgan

ExperienceLanguageYouCreateGo

I think life is hard at the combat outposts, and anything that distracts us from supporting them, in my mind, is something that we shouldn't do.

Stanley A. McChrystal

LifeMindThinkLife Is HardHard

The story is always in service to the characters, and is only as long or short, or neat or ragged as it needs to be.

Stewart O'Nan

ServiceStoryShortLongAlways

I think that the present is worth attention, one shouldn't sacrifice it to future conceptions of, of this future or that future.

Tom Stoppard

FutureSacrificeThinkPresentWorth

A characteristic of older folksongs, in most cases, is that we don't know their composers or authors. Older folksongs were written often with no commercial purpose in mind. They were passed down by word of mouth, from generation to generation.

Tom Glazer

PurposeMindGenerationMouthDown

It seemed to be inadmissible to give in on such a fundamental point. This would have meant that any one who would have wanted to be a terrorist could gain eventually their freedom thanks to another kidnapping.

Robert Bourassa

FreedomThanksPointGainGiveWho

I find this in all these places I've been travelling - from India to China, to Japan and Europe and to Brazil - there is a frustration with the terms of public discourse, with a kind of absence of discussion of questions of justice and ethics and of values.

Michael Sandel

JusticeEthicsFrustrationQuestions

During one new moon at perigee, I stood on high ground, watching salt ponds overflow, cover the beach, and meet the ocean. Because the moon was invisible, the water was black as it drowned the sand, and the event felt primal - which in fact it was, because it was nature.

Luanne Rice

NatureWaterBeachOceanMoonBlack

My soul is not my own any more. I cannot live like I want to. I am going to give up films.

Brigitte Bardot

LiveSoulI AmMy SoulWantMy Own

Publishing a short story can sometimes feel like shouting into the dark... your words come out, and then nothing... but I don't think that's why I tend to write novels rather than stories.

Alice McDermott

WordsStoryThinkShortFeelDark

'Lost Boys' is one of my all-time faves. I just thought it would be great to be a vampire. I remember this movie called 'Once Bitten,' which is about an '80s sort of power girl who became a vampire and was really, like, sexy. Hair like she was from 'Dallas,' shoulder pads, big earrings.

Lena Headey

GirlPowerGreatHairThoughtSexy

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