Rebecca Solnit Quotes

For me, being in a car or on an airplane is like being in limbo. It's this dead zone between two places. But to walk, you're some place that's already interesting. You're not just between places. Things are happening.

Rebecca Solnit

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

CarWalkMeAirplaneInteresting

I think the word rich is all relative.

Joel Osteen

RichThinkWordI ThinkRelative

My problem is desserts. I am obsessed with desserts.

Sofia Vergara

I AmProblemObsessedDessertsAm

I'm very grateful that I was given the ability to create.

Rodney Crowell

GratefulCreateAbilityGivenVery

Being a good Hans Haacke student, part of his influence on me is that there's no difference between a gallery show and a film - or even an ad and a T-shirt-in terms of cultural legitimacy. They're just different contexts in which to have some sort of communication.

Mike Mills

GoodCommunicationMeInfluenceFilm

I think the first Broadway show that I saw was 'Beauty and the Beast,' and that was in 5th or 6th grade. Our school would take bus trips up to see shows, and so it was on one of their bus trips that I got to see 'Beauty and the Beast.'

Jonathan Groff

BeautySchoolThinkBeastFirstSee

After my mother died, I found, a little book of hers which recorded everything I had ever done, how I had done it, and how proud she was of her son Conrad.

Conrad Veidt

MotherSonBookProudDoneShe

Think of the first Apple II being shipped in 1977. It took almost a decade for it to land in my school where I could see it.

Brendan Iribe

SchoolThinkAppleLandFirstSee

Sometimes when the song is right for that time period, it's just kinda bad to let it wait, and then when you do release it eight months down the road, it's not the same.

Shawn Mendes

TimeWaitSongRoadYouBad

I don't like to follow in the footsteps. I like to learn from the footsteps that came before me, forge a new path.

Shari Redstone

PathMeLearnNewFollowForge

Rather than being an interpreter, the scientist who embraces a new paradigm is like the man wearing inverting lenses.

Thomas Kuhn

ManNewParadigmBeingLikeRather

I sometimes think I was always left-wing. I know that sounds completely crazy, but I do know that I asked questions when I was about four, and I remember noticing that I wasn't getting an answer, and I remember it annoying me.

Tilda Swinton

MeCrazyThinkQuestionsRemember

I ask people what they do in sales, how much money they made last year, what their cost of sales is, and they don't even know. If you don't know your numbers, you're going out of business. I don't care how good your product is.

Tilman J. Fertitta

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