Rebecca Solnit Quotes

The world you live in is not a given; much of what is best in it has been built through the struggles of passionate activists over the last centuries. They won us many freedoms and protected many beauties. Count those gifts among your growing heap.

Rebecca Solnit

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: June 24, 1961

Topics

LiveBestWorldYouGrowingOver

With 'Darkly Dreaming Dexter,' we as a group of writers had to take a rather thin novel and spread it out over the course of 12 episodes, and not only 12 episodes, but lay in story for everyone that's going to take you through five years.

Melissa Rosenberg

StoryYouGroupOverEveryoneOut

I think there are two prevailing views of the suburbs in the States: either they're this sort of tedious place, where everyone is the same, buys the same food and drives around in their little minivans, or the view is that the suburbs are extremely perverse in a humorous way.

Megan Abbott

FoodThinkViewPlaceWayEveryone

You cannot tell the enemy you're going to leave and expect the enemy to not - and expect to succeed. I mean, that's just a fundamental of warfare.

John McCain

SucceedYouEnemyMeanLeaveTell

The minute a Wall Street firm purchases your debt, your bank no longer has it on its financial statement, which then allows the bank to look for more credit card customers. That's one reason why you get so many credit card offers.

Robert Kiyosaki

FinancialCreditYouLookWallWhy

The NBA is a crazy place.

Jeff Van Gundy

CrazyPlaceNBA

If you stay very focused on customers and customer success, people pay attention to that - and in turn, they also want that same type of success.

Aneel Bhusri

SuccessPeopleCustomerAttention

I can't read a computer screen and never use a calculator. It's all in my head and by hand.

Simon Reuben

HandNeverHeadScreenComputerUse

Obama's endorsement of gay marriage is hardly as consequential as Johnson's legislative success on civil rights.

Robert Dallek

SuccessMarriageGayCivil Rights

The only advice I can give is to surround yourself with people who are friends and people who believe in you and your material and who are going to help you take it to the next level. It doesn't mean you don't listen to criticism, but you listen to it and edit it, and you figure out what you can take.

Dee Rees

YourselfSurround YourselfPeopleYou

I think a movie is a great date idea for younger couples. It takes the pressure off, since something else is entertaining you. It's also good for couples in a very comfortable relationship.

Chris Carmack

GoodRelationshipGreatThinkYou

I think a joke is a form of truth-telling. A good joke that's absurd contains elements of our daily darkness and also a possibility to escape that darkness. So, for me, humor is an attempt to capture everyday tragedy and everyday hopeful moments that we experience all of the time.

Colson Whitehead

GoodDailyTimeHumorDarknessMe

There is nothing that anyone can say to prepare you for childbirth. Each woman's experience is so different; you never know how it will be for you!

Poppy Montgomery

ExperienceWomanYouKnowNothing

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