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Eleanor Catton Quotes

To experience sublime natural beauty is to confront the total inadequacy of language to describe what you see. Words cannot convey the scale of a view that is so stunning it is felt.

Eleanor Catton

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: author
Nationality: new zealander
Birth: September 24, 1985

Topics

Beauty Experience Words Language You

To destroy is still the strongest instinct in nature.

Max Beerbohm

Nature Destroy Instinct Still

I'm no wizard, and I don't like being thought of in that light at all. I think of a wizard as being some sort of magician or something, doing something on the sly or something, and I don't want to be thought of in that way.

John Wooden

Light Think Thought Doing Want Way

The National League was born the following year, as an attempt to exert the control of capital over labor.

John Thorn

Control Year Born Labor Over League

I didn't know what the word 'genre' meant till I was twenty years old.

Trombone Shorty

Know Old Years Twenty Word Genre

I don't take care of myself at all. I've no idea why I'm not a fat bloater. I eat everything and anything. I never cook and just eat take-outs.

Travis Fimmel

Myself Care Take Care Fat Why Never

You can do 12 great takes, but if the director is no good, he'll end up picking the wrong one.

Martin Short

Good Great End You Wrong Director

As failures go, attempting to recall the past is like claiming to grasp the meaning of existence. Both make one feel like a baby clutching at a basketball: one's palms keep sliding off.

Joseph Brodsky

Past Baby Basketball Feel Meaning

I've been very, very lucky because I've had so many great mentors.

Bobby Kotick

Great Mentors Lucky Because Been

When I was about 18 or 19, I told my father that I want to be an actor, and he was shocked.

Prabhas

Father Want Actor Shocked He About

I like having a home. I like having a place to return to.

Sharon Van Etten

Home Place Return Like Having

! discovered photography completely by chance. My wife is an architect; when we were young and living in Paris, she bought a camera to take pictures of buildings. For the first time, I looked through a lens - and photography immediately started to invade my life.

Sebastiao Salgado

Life Time Wife Chance My Life

Since my election as Oklahoma attorney general in 2010, I have been a proud member of a group of federalism-minded state attorneys general who have methodically, indeed relentlessly, worked to restore the proper balance of power between the federal government and the states.

Scott Pruitt

Power Balance Government Proud Group