Etude Quotes

#1. The longer I live the more I mistrust
theatricality, the false glamour cast
by performance, the more I know its poverty beside
the truths we are salvaging from
the splitting-open of our lives.
-from Transcendental Etude

Adrienne Rich

#2. I text and email my friends and family a lot, but that's about the extent of my high-tech-etude.

Willie Nelson

#3. Your path and purpose will become crystal clear when you begin to trust your vision.

Bill Walsh

#4. You have a right to enjoy life, but only on your own time.

Ashleigh Brilliant

#5. Life originated in the sea, and about eighty percent of it is still there.

Isaac Asimov

#6. Slowly the disease of the soul, which rich people have, grabbed hold of him.

Hermann Hesse

#7. Free from attachments to the past and worries about the future, a child expresses him/herself fully.

Mata Amritanandamayi

#8. But for the most part, people - of the right kind - are good. For them I put on my corset of cheerfulness, a solid serviceable garment. It holds in the bulgings and oozings of emotion, and soon I find they are, temporarily, stilled.

Anna Lyndsey

#9. Bodies come and go, ages come and go, yugas come and go, eternities come and go. Selves come and go.

Frederick Lenz

#10. I'm a child of the Cold War. You do not say, "Oh, my God, there are Russian planes, so I'm going to cede the field." I mean, what kind of world would we have had if the United States had done that for 60 years?

Anne-Marie Slaughter

#11. He's a restless soul, always looking for another chance to drive,' Nico said. 'The last few years, he's been my driver whenever I need one.'
'You have a zombie chauffeur,' Leila said.

Rick Riordan

#12. There are five assessment simulations; fear, frustration, anger, confusion and humiliation. The outcomes of which will determine the usefulness of each prisoner and how long they will be allowed to live.

Jill Thrussell

#13. The only concept or experience or core belief that I can attribute my other-ness to is that I just started out a weirdo and I stayed a weirdo. And it took me a long time to embrace my outsidership and see it as a strength rather than a weakness.

Aisha Tyler

#14. That annoying thing that tourists did, opening a feed into London's sea of blue plaques.

William Gibson

#15. What was it with men, that they found elementary logic so difficult?

Ian McEwan

#16. The problem is not that you can buy a congressman for $10000 but that you can buy a Washington lawyer for $100000.

Nicholas Johnson