Hannah Errant Quotes

#1. A lot of times, the inspiration for a novel is a messy bird's nest of shiny things. Little things that don't make a whole lot of sense or that, no matter how hard you look, cannot be found directly in the finished book.

Molly O'Keefe

#2. Camp is a solvent of morality. It neutralizes moral indignation, sponsors playfulness.

Susan Sontag

#3. Keep yourself in the moment

Akosua Dardaine Edwards

#4. Everything you do in life, I don't care, good or bad - don't blame God, don't blame the devil, don't blame me, blame you. You control everything! The thoughts you think, the words you utter, the foods you eat, the exercise you do. Everything is controlled by you.

Jack LaLanne

#5. Anyone from my past I'm interested in, I've already stalked their homes. I like to go outside.

John Waters

#6. We play a hip-hop song and suddenly 25 people on the left jump up and put their hands in the air; then you play Lost Cause and they're like, I don't know about this one.

Beck

#7. You can't look forward and backward ...

Coleman Young

#8. Being a waitress can be a very brutal job sometimes, and I remember during the training, the person said to me, "The redder the lips, the better the tips," and that was like the only advice she gave me.

Brit Marling

#9. Being truly thankful makes you infinitely more resourceful. By sincerely appreciating what you have, you find new and valuable ways to make use of it.

Ralph Marston

#10. Diplomacy is the delicate weapon of the civilized warrior.- Hun, A. T.

Robert Asprin

#11. I think poets are people who are like this; for whatever reason you feel psychological exile because you're always an outsider...

Natasha Trethewey

#12. Animal agriculture takes up an incredible 70% of all agricultural land, and a whopping 30% of the land surface of the planet. As a result, farmed animals are probably the biggest cause of slashing and burning the world's forests.

Kathy Freston

#13. It's really easy to have a nice philosophy about openness, but moving the world in that direction is a different thing. It requires both understanding where you want to go and being pragmatic about getting there.

Mark Zuckerberg

#14. That which distinguishes the new thought from the old is not a denial of this Divine Reality, but an affirmation of its immediate availability.

Ernest Holmes

#15. Traditions don't come out of nowhere. They come from something sacred and strange.

Corey Ann Haydu