Jeremy Lipking Quotes

#1. Literary history is the great morgue where all seek the dead ones whom they love, or to whom they are related.

Heinrich Heine

#2. I admired the work of photographers like Beaton, Penn, and Avedon as much as I respected the grittier photographers such as Robert Frank. But in the same way that I had to find my own way of reportage, I had to find my own form of glamour.

Annie Leibovitz

#3. Away from home. Young children stray from their parents and are never seen again. Housewives reach the end of their tether and take the grocery money and a taxi to the station. International financiers change their names and vanish

Diana Gabaldon

#4. I am a serious artist in my own right, in the sense that I've spent my entire life being an artist and trying to be an artist and making work.

David Shrigley

#5. One characteristic aspect of ageing is the increased susceptibility to disease, particularly age-related diseases such as cardiovascular diseases and cancer.

Elizabeth Blackburn

#6. I love form, but I'm not interested in forms. I've never written a sonnet or villanelle or sestina or any of that. For me, it's a kind of line. It's a rhythm. It's something musical.

Robert Pinsky

#7. All you have to do is to look like crap on film and everyone thinks you're a brilliant actress. Actually, all you've done is look like crap.

Helen Mirren

#8. Liberty has never come from the government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of the government. The history of government is a history of resistance. The history of liberty is the history of the limitation of government, not the increase of it.

Woodrow Wilson

#9. If you want to score a goal, you have to hit the target.

Fabio Capello

#10. Ultimately, I believe that God loves and wants a relationship with every human being, but with Laura I could feel God's urgency.

Donald Miller

#11. This is not a full circle. It's Life carrying on. It's the next breath we all take. It's the choice we all make to get on with it.

Alexandra Fuller

#12. What if your brother is dying and you can't stop it. What do you do?"
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"You help him find something that makes him feel that he still wants to be alive. Only thing to do.

Alice Hoffman

#13. Before Gutenberg, libraries were small
the Cambridge University library had only 122 volumes in 1424, for instance; after Gutenberg literacy became widespread.

Larry Stone