Flanner Quotes & Sayings

My sister is there with, probably, the most dangerous people on this city! You have a little sister?"
"No."
"Then you don't have any right to tell me what I suposse to sacrifice if it's for my sister's sake!"
"Owen ... "
"She's the only younger sibling I have. If something happens to her, I don't see any reason why should I keep alive on this freaking Earth! — Rea Lidde

The older women were Sunbeams and I guess we were Cherubs or Lambs, but our mothers were Nightingales. — Janet Flanner

Humans are vulnerable, messy little animals and that's normal. And all I want to do is make a space for that in my films. — Mike Mills

The stench of human wreckage in which the Nazi regime finally sank down to defeat has been the most shocking fact of modern times. — Janet Flanner

I act as a sponge. I soak it up and squeeze it out in ink every two weeks. — Janet Flanner

People who don't want something are less likely to get it than people who do want something. — Janet Flanner

The German passion for bureaucracy
for written and signal forms ... to move about, to work, to exist
is like a steel pin pinning each French individual to a sheet of paper, the way an entomologist pins each specimen insect ... — Janet Flanner

I think no artist can claim to have any access to the truth, or an authentic version of an event. But obviously they have slightly better means at their disposal because they have their art to energize whatever it is they're trying to write about. They have music. — Thom Yorke

Never have nights been more beautiful than these nights of anxiety. In the sky have been shining in trinity the moon, Venus and Mars. Nature has been more splendid than man. — Janet Flanner

In the history of art there are periods when bread seems so beautiful that it nearly gets into museums. — Janet Flanner

Women have invented nothing in all that, except the men who were born as male babies and grew up to be men big enough to be killed fighting. — Janet Flanner

I'm fond of anything that comes from the sea, and that includes sailors. — Janet Flanner

The truth about the life of a man is not what he does, but the legend which he creates around himself. — Oscar Wilde

History looks queer when you're standing close to it, watching where it is coming from and how it's being made. — Janet Flanner

She died with a knife in her hand in her kitchen, where she had cooked for fifty years, and the death was solemnly listed in the newspaper as that of an artist. — Janet Flanner

When you look at the startling ruins of Nuremberg, you are looking at a result of the war. When you look at the prisoners on view in the courthouse, you are looking at 22 of the causes. — Janet Flanner

Isadore [Duncan], who had an un-American genius for art, for organizing love, maternity, politics and pedagogy on a great personal scale, had also an un-American genius for grandeur. — Janet Flanner

When you are feeling stressed, and you keep going over and over the same problem in your mind, with no solution, take action. Do anything to remove your energy from the issue. You will find that when you are proactive, your mind will become more clear, solutions will arise, and you will feel more self-confident. Free yourself from feeling like a victim and become victorious instead! — Jenni Young

[On World War II:] The war, which destroyed so much of everything, was also constructive, in a way. It established clearly the cold, and finally unhypocritical fact that the most important thing on earth to men today is money. — Janet Flanner

Genius is a talent only for living, those who possess it have little gift for dying. — Janet Flanner

By jove, no wonder women don't love war nor understand it, nor can operate in it as a rule; it takes a man to suffer what other men have invented. — Janet Flanner

She felt about a love set as a painter does about his masterpiece; each ace serve was a form of brushwork to her, and her fantastically accurate shot-placing was certainly a study in composition. — Janet Flanner

[Charles de Gaulle] has been abysmally careless, like a man running a bus over mountains, who forgot to equip it with good brakes. — Janet Flanner

What a rare joy it is to linger in the lucid, transcendent worlds of Jennifer Maier's poems. In taut, precise language and lapidary images, Now, Now explores myriad pathways of connection, the ways desire, longing, and imaginative possibility brush up against the everyday, revealing a keen, fiercely compassionate intelligence-a sensibility so finely attuned and so clearly in love with the world that you would follow it almost anywhere. — Rick Hilles

I love my little flat in Spitalfields. Lots of actors live out of a suitcase, so it's nice to have a base to come back to. — Harry Lloyd

Genius is immediate, but talent takes time. — Janet Flanner

I am invariably and have been since adolescence inimical to the Republican mind which shows at the most inflated size the bad qualities of the bourgeoisie rather than the good qualities of the middle class which the Democrats call forth. — Janet Flanner

She had storms all her life, but she died peacefully. — Janet Flanner

They are working hard and fast, but they are just doing what they are supposed to do. I see the same look on the faces of some of Max's teachers when Max doesn't understand something and the teacher doesn't think he will ever understand it. The teachers work hard, but you can tell that they are just doing the lesson. Not teaching the lesson. That's what the doctors look like now. They are doing the doctoring but they do not believe in the doctoring. — Matthew Dicks

Proust has been dead since 1922, yet the annual appearance of his posthumous works has left him, to the reader, alive. Now there is nothing left to publish. Five years after his interment, Proust seems dead for the first time. — Janet Flanner

Having regrets is proof of being alive. — Nobuyuki Fukumoto

She was built for crowds. She has never come any closer to life than the dinner table. — Janet Flanner

Beautiful is another word we tossed around too casually, slopping it over everything from cars to nail polish until the word collapsed under the weight of all the banality. But the world is beautiful. I hope they never forget that. The world is beautiful. — Rick Yancey

I keep going over a sentence. I nag it, gnaw it, pat and flatter it. — Janet Flanner

Blitz to V-E Day. After the war was over, the novelist John Hersey invented a new kind of journalism, modelled on the techniques of fiction, in his report about the atomic-bomb attack on Hiroshima, which filled an entire issue of the magazine in the summer of 1946. That June, Ross wrote to Flanner, with a touch of rue, "Probably the magazine will never get back to where it was." The war took The New Yorker out of the city and into the world. — Anonymous