Yokefellows Quotes & Sayings

So far as we feel sympathy, we feel we are not accomplices to what caused the suffering. Our sympathy proclaims our innocence as well as our impotence. To that extent, it can be (for all our good intentions) an impertinent- if not inappropriate- response. To set aside the sympathy we extend to others beset by war and murderous politics for a reflection on how our privileges are located on the same map as their suffering, and may- in ways we might prefer not to imagine- be linked to their suffering, as the wealth as some may imply the destitution of others, is a task for which the painful, stirring images supply only an initial spark. — Susan Sontag

Memoirs have dominated the literary scene now for ten or 20 or even 30 years: most of them seem to use the conventions of fiction and it's astonishing how in so many of these books people seem to be able to remember conversations that took place when they were five years old and give three pages of coherent dialogue, which is utterly impossible. — Paul Auster

Probably though, by the time I was 17, I already knew that I was probably going to go into film — Brian Henson

One of the first issues I dealt with was the struggle to find a language, to find my own words. — Rirkrit Tiravanija

It's in our nature to make a religion, so to speak, out of anything we don't understand, but it is simply advanced technology. — Jim Sparks

The further the music develops, the more complex the apparatus used by the composer to express his thoughts becomes. — Gustav Mahler

I would like to make a building as intellectually driven as it is sculptural and as positive as it would be acceptable to hope. — Frank Gehry

I'd like to praise the drivers who picked me up. If I ever hear another elitist jerk use the term flyover people, I'll punch him in the mouth. My riders were brave and open-minded, and their down-to-earth kindness gave me new faith in how decent Americans can be. They are the only heroes in this book. — John Waters

Efficiency is doing the thing right. Effectiveness is doing the right thing. — Peter F. Drucker

But fear and fascination are yokefellows, oxen out of step but pulling in the same direction... — Winston Graham

I would love to have a career that's governed by the material; I always want to be part of stories that I feel are worthwhile. — Lupita Nyong'o

Shoulda, coulda, woulda. It's so easy in the past tense. — Sarah Dessen

With my friends, the sad truth is that our best "best friend" days are behind us. In college, we used to be able to meet each other in the common area of our off-campus housing, excited about our evening ahead, which consisted of someone making an enormous tureen of pasta and drinking wine from a box while we took turns regaling each other with details of our terrible love lives. — Mindy Kaling