Judith Thurman Quotes

#1. If you are forced to describe things for someone else, it sharpens your senses. And also your sense of how hard it is to make the translation from the vibrant, multi-faceted world to a sentence that distils it.

Judith Thurman

#2. {8:9} For you know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that though he was rich, he became poor for your sakes, so that through his poverty, you might become rich.

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#3. will appoint Peace as your overseer and Righteousness as your taskmaster.

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#4. Often we don't notice the stringent rules to which our culture subjects us.

Sara Sheridan

#5. The border between editing and ghostwriting is, at its extremes, a bit porous. An editor really improves and sometimes restructures a manuscript and suggests changes.

Judith Thurman

#6. This is the river of the great 19th-century landscapists; of Cole, Cropsey and Church, and at the end of the summer it lies motionless under the haze as under a light coat of varnish.

Judith Thurman

#7. Even after several hospitalizations for alcohol and drug-related nervous breakdowns, poet Edna St. Vincent Millay defined sobriety as restricting her daily intake of liquor to a liter and a half of wine.

Judith Thurman

#8. Conservatives like Palin and Reagan and others do seem to love the series, but so do people of all political stripes and backgrounds. I speak about the series' "radiant simplicity."

Judith Thurman

#9. A mad person sees what isn't there; A visionary sees what isn't there yet

Judith Thurman

#10. High energy does not necessarily mean fast, high energy has to do with heart.

Lou Reed

#11. You say you know me, Mr. Railey, but obviously, you don't. If you did, you'd know I don't spit out.

Tiffany Reisz

#12. Insecurity, however, is a luxury on which I never economize.

Judith Thurman

#13. Long before feminism made fashion a guilty pleasure, my first experience of the sisterhood among strangers took place in a communal dressing room.

Judith Thurman

#14. After creation God said, 'It is finished'-and he rested. After redemption Jesus said, 'It is finished'-and we can rest.

Timothy Keller

#15. Here was a monument, in fieldstone, to the art of family life.

Judith Thurman

#16. And that may be [Helen Gurley] Brown's most enlightened lesson: that sexual autonomy and fulfillment are inseparable from the autonomy and fulfillment that a woman gets from her career.

Judith Thurman

#17. Only Americans can hurt America.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

#18. Every dreamer knows that it is entirely possible to be homesick for a place you've never been to, perhaps more homesick than for familiar ground.

Judith Thurman

#19. There is no time left for anything but to make peace work a dimension of our every waking activity.

Elise M. Boulding

#20. I knew tomorrow would be another battle, one that a few days back I wouldn't have even considered, but in that moment it was all I wanted to do. To be there, fighting. For you

Diana T. Scott

#21. We have one life to live - and one chance to live it in the richest way possible.

Judith Thurman