Womanish Tickets Quotes & Sayings

Disgust relies on moral obtuseness. It is possible to view another human being as a slimy slug or a piece of revolting trash only if one has never made a serious good-faith attempt to see the world through that person's eyes or to experience that person's feelings. Disgust imputes to the other a subhuman nature. How, by contrast, do we ever become able to see one another as human? Only through the exercise of imagination. — Martha C. Nussbaum

That there are fashions in admiration and denigration is inevitable; they should not however be followed at the expense of truth. — Mary Renault

I do genuinely believe that young people who play sport at a competitive level, sensibly controlled, sensibly organised, that has to be a good thing. It will teach them to win, it will teach them to lose with dignity and magnanimity - all the things you want. It's a pretty good metaphor for life. — Sebastian Coe

If it doesn't taste good it doesn't go on the menu. — Heston Blumenthal

To be asleep is to be dead. It is like death. So we dance, we dance so as not to be dead. We do not want that. — Ray Bradbury

The willpower to do anything would come, the songs and writings said, if the motive was pure. — Mercedes Lackey

If I'd thought that nobody would like it as I was writing it, I would have written it even more. But I never think of the audience. I never think of people reading. I never think of people, period. — Jamaica Kincaid

The attitude of the actor is his interpretation of what he reads, and the written word is what creates the role in the actor's mind, and I guess in reading the things that were given to me, I reacted as you guys saw me, you know. — Gene Barry

Even if a poem is beautiful and memorable, it's not like an advertising jingle or propaganda, which attempt to convince and control. Poems seek to confuse, disabuse, enlarge understanding, and make people ask questions and think for themselves. — Rachel Zucker

I' is merely one of the world's instantaneous spasms. — Clarice Lispector

Consumerism is so weird. It's a sort of conspiracy we collude in. You'd think shoppers spending their hard-earned cash would be highly critical. You know that the manufacturers are trying to have you on. — J.G. Ballard

All I have told is true, but it is not the whole truth. — Laura Ingalls Wilder