Boruch Quotes

#1. Men=earthbound creatures, living in communities, endowed with common sense, sensus communis, a community sense; not autonomous, needing each other's company even for thinking ("freedom of the pen")=first part of the Critique of Judgment: aesthetic judgment.

Hannah

#2. A poem is a box, a thing, to put other things in. For safe keeping.

Marianne Boruch

#3. We have a problem now with parents stealing their kids' CDs, so the roles have been reversed.

Jerry Only

#4. I think diva is an inevitable outcome of the industry, and I don't think it reflects on the person at all. You take a normal human being, and basically, for 24 hours, seven days a week, apart from sleeping, you introduce them to places and things almost every minute that are brand new.

Chet Faker

#5. A pencil in my hand, its secret life / is charcoal, the wood already burnt, / a sacrifice.

Marianne Boruch

#6. We have to reach out to churches and schools and help people understand science, and we have to build rapport between scientists and people of faith. Then once we get that understanding and rapport built, then everyone will be on board with climate change.

Katharine Hayhoe

#7. Life gets tangled and matter - especially when things start to go right.

Molly Looby

#8. My mother is an immigrant from China, and she filled my head with stories about ghosts and fighting monks in China, so the world of 'Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon' was a very familiar one.

Tess Gerritsen

#9. If you are not sensitive to rejection, doesn't that also mean you're indifferent to love?

Wendy Shalit

#10. You become aware of an illness by understanding yourself and understanding the meaning that that illness has in your own life, symbolically and, more importantly, quite literally.

Kay Redfield Jamison

#11. When I look back at this career I've had, I don't know where it goes from here, but certainly any time I can make a movie that's different, that explores something that's not a retread of something else, I'm interested in it.

Don Coscarelli