Top 100 Quotes About Naomi
#1. Female roles in comedies are usually quite silly, I think.
Naomi Watts
#2. The worst thing that happens in life is not death. The worst thing would be to miss it ... I think the great danger in life is not showing up.
Rachel Naomi Remen
#3. I should like to know if he has sunk a frigate, alone, with a Fleur-de-Nuit on his back; and as for distinction, my ancestors were scholars in China while his were starving in pits.
Naomi Novik
#4. Some movies are the kind you take home with you at the end of the day, and some, you can let go.
Naomi Watts
#5. It seemed to me, watching, that if you were dextrous enough to gift-wrap an independent-minded amphibian, you could just about manage a condom.
Naomi Wolf
#6. Hope has never trickled down, it has always sprung up.
Naomi Klein
#7. I want it so bad, but no glove, no fucking love.
C.M. Stunich
#9. Every time I flicked channels, there I was, talking. I was talking too much and writing too little. So Naomi and I went to Hawaii. The phone was cut off and we lost touch. This gave me the chance to have a good think about my life.
Joe Eszterhas
#10. What she most liked about their friendship was how much space there was for silence[.]
Naomi Jackson
#11. Having worked as a labor and delivery nurse ... I've seen ultrasounds ... you know that those babies are real.
Naomi Judd
#12. There should be a word that means beginning/end because nothing begins without something dying.
Rachel Naomi Remen
#13. something important is indeed at stake that has to do with the relationship between female liberation and female beauty.
Naomi Wolf
#14. He feels excited. He feels ashamed. He wants to talk to her, but he is afraid. Maybe he imagined it all. Maybe she will call him a bad name if he asks her what happened.
Naomi Alderman
#15. Most urgently, women's identity must be premised upon our 'beauty' so that we will remain vulnerable to outside approval, carrying the vital sensitive organ of self-esteem exposed to the air.
Naomi Wolf
#16. Naomi, I asked you to suck my cock, you'd have your mouth wrapped around it so fast, you'd break the sound barrier.
Kristen Ashley
#17. One of them says, 'Why did they do it?'
And the other answers, 'Because they could.'
That is the only answer there ever is.
Naomi Alderman
#18. The willingness to consider possibility requires a tolerance of uncertainty.
Rachel Naomi Remen
#19. She wore her body like a mistake she hoped to one day be forgiven for.
Naomi Jackson
#20. That's funny. I've always liked Naomi's version of me the best. I'm always much more interesting when she talks about me.
Rachel Cohn
#21. When readers close the covers on 'Running the Rift,' I want them to understand that it is not a genocide novel but rather a story of hope and rebirth.
Naomi Benaron
#22. Life offers its wisdom generously. Everything teaches. Not everyone learns.
Rachel Naomi Remen
#23. I do want someone, need someone. You're right. And, when I'm with you, I feel like I'm a better person. I feel happier. Less alone, less lonely. But it's not as simple as that, is it? Being with someone?
Naomi Campbell
#26. Mum put me in drama classes when I was about 14. I'd been going on about it for some time, so maybe it was a way to shut me up.
Naomi Watts
#28. I do not think you are in any danger of starving," Maximus said. "The surgeon said only two weeks ago that you are too fat."
"The devil!" Berkley said indignantly, sitting up; and Maximus snorted in amusement at having provoked him.
Naomi Novik
#29. Rather than allowing subway and bus fares to rise while service erodes, we need to be lowering prices and expanding services - regardless of the costs. Public
Naomi Klein
#30. Befriending life is less a matter of knowledge than a question of wisdom. It is not about mastering life, controlling it or exerting our will over it, no matter how well intentioned our will may be. Befriending life is more about harmlessness than it is about control.
Rachel Naomi Remen
#31. I grabbed back at him just as incautiously with my hand and my magic both, even as he pressed magic on me from his side as well. His breath huffed out sharply, and our workings caught on one another, magic gushing into them.
Naomi Novik
#32. This is the trouble with history. You can't see what's not there. You can look at an empty space and see that something's missing, but there's no way to know what it was.
Naomi Alderman
#34. The fishermen of Port Sonas care only for the two things, fishing and women. And there's some that are no' that keen on the fishing.
Naomi Mitchison
#35. He wasn't a person, he was a lord and a wizard, a strange creature on another plane entirely, as far removed as storms and pestilence.
Naomi Novik
#36. What twists or rage greater than we could ever guess had savaged skylines, thousands of lives?
Naomi Shihab Nye
#37. In order to combat climate change, there's a real need to start localizing our economies
Naomi Klein
#38. And finally i prayed for the mouse-I prayed that he didn't get hurt when he went flying out the door of the open arms baptist church of naomi. I prayed that he landed on a nice patch of grass.
Kate DiCamillo
#39. Laurence felt his face going red; she was sitting there in breeches that showed every inch of her leg, with a shirt held closed only by a neckcloth; he shifted his gaze to the unalarming top of her head and managed to say, Your servant, Miss Harcourt.
Naomi Novik
#40. You only get to be a victim once. After that, you're a volunteer.
Naomi Judd
#41. From Chile to China to Iraq, torture has been a silent partner in the global free-market crusade.
Naomi Klein
#42. Your hope is the most beautiful and the saddest in the world.
Naomi Benaron
#43. Women were naturally pure souls, on so much higher a spiritual plane to begin with than men.
Naomi Ragen
#44. I am convinced that climate change represents a historic opportunity on an even greater scale.
Naomi Klein
#45. Twice daily I had to circle through the one year olds' room here in the Old Mishnah Orphan Home where twenty babies sat naked in chairs, eating, sleeping and pooping at will.
J. Naomi Ay
#46. society has no choice but to take dramatic action to avert a collapse of civilization.
Naomi Klein
#47. People are waking up in their homes - without conferences. They're waking up because life is waking them up, not because of some conference called "Body and Soul."
Rachel Naomi Remen
#48. No one ever tells you that: that there's no method. Writing's a lawless place.
Naomi Wood
#49. He, the man, had seen her, touched her, and had not validated her beauty, her womanliness. He had turned away and gone to his own bed. Like Eve after the fall, her nakedness was obscene to her now.
Naomi Ragen
#50. I'm still the kid dreaming of the lives she'll never have but guess what? Maybe she doesn't want them.
Naomi Shihab Nye
#51. It is human nature to abuse power, no matter who you are.
Naomi Wolf
#52. Those men want to take Laurence from me, and put him in prison, and execute him, and I will not let them, ever, and I do not care if Laurence tells me not to squash you, he added, fiercely, to Lord Barham.
- Temeraire
Naomi Novik
#53. I love watching Rihanna in fashion. I like to see her take chances and risks. I like seeing Naomi Campbell in the forefront. They're both women who stand out and use their bodies as canvases to introduce this functional art to the world. They carry it in a way that is very inspiring.
Erykah Badu
#54. When women breached the power structure in the 1980s?two economies finally merged. Beauty was no longer just a symbolic form of currency: it literally became money.
Naomi Wolf
#55. Coal, in truth, stands not beside but entirely above all other commodities. It is the material energy of the country - the universal aid - the factor in everything we do." - William Stanley Jevons, economist, 1865
Naomi Klein
#56. Even climate action at home looks suspiciously like socialism to them; all the calls for high-density affordable housing and brand-new public transit are obviously just ways to give backdoor subsidies to the undeserving poor.
Naomi Klein
#57. Naomi's a good person," Amos said. "I like her, you know? Like my kid sister, only smart and I'd do her if she let me. You know?" "Yeah," Miller said. "I like her too." "She's
James S.A. Corey
#58. Renewables are, in fact, much more reliable than power based on extraction, since those energy models require continuous new inputs to avoid a crash, whereas once the initial investment has been made in renewable energy infrastructure, nature provides the raw materials for free.
Naomi Klein
#59. I'm petite, only 5 feet tall, so occasionally I'd get an audition for a small person. But small people and little people are technically different.
Naomi Grossman
#60. I think I have better taste now than I did then.
Naomi Watts
#61. Naomi knew she should pray... Instead, she put her face in her hands and wept with all the force of a bursting dam.
Heather Blanton
#62. I don't know that any woman could ever not think about that at some point - even making the choice not to do it and getting to the place of peace of choosing not to be a parent, there would have still been some struggle in between. I'm not a man but I don't think it would occupy their minds as much.
Naomi Watts
#63. How do they manage to go on living? ... By loving life. And-in spite of everything-by loving God. By having enough faith to start over again and again; enough faith to risk having our hearts break all over again. That's the true meaning of faith. It's the deepest kind of heroism.
Naomi Ragen
#65. I missed home like the ache of hunger, something in me left empty. I'd missed it every day since we crossed out of the valley, going over the mountains. Roots - yes. There were roots in my heart, as deep as any corruption could go.
Naomi Novik
#66. I am looking for the human who admits his flaws
Who shocks the adversary
By being kinder not stronger
What would that be like?
We don't even know
Naomi Shihab Nye
#67. I live my life day by day, and that's how I continue to live it.
Naomi Campbell
#68. In our instinctive attachments, our fear of change, and our wish for certainty and permanence, we may undercut the impermanence which is our greatest strength, our most fundamental identity. Without impermanence, there is no process. The nature of life is change. All hope is based on process.
Rachel Naomi Remen
#69. So to get back to being intimidated, yes, you get intimidated when you're on the runway with Naomi Campbell, who is the best runway model in the world.
Heidi Klum
#70. Maybe when your mother died young, you became instantly old.
Naomi Shihab Nye
#71. I hated her; I wanted her to burn, the way so many of the corrupted had burned, because she'd put her hold on them. But wanting cruelty felt like another wrong answer in an endless chain.
Naomi Novik
#72. If I have to produce movies, direct movies, whatever to change the way Hollywood treats older women, I'll do it. If I have to bend the rules, I will. If I have to break them, I will.
Naomi Watts
#73. Now come on. Let's find the baby unicorns and get out of here.
Naomi Novik
#74. One of my favourite actresses is Kate Winslet. She plays strong female characters and seems like she has a strong political awareness. I really like Naomi Watts and Juliette Lewis.
Emily Perkins
#75. What are you doing?" asked Naomi from behind him, not from his helmet speakers. She was standing there with her helmet off. Sweat plastered her thick black hair to her head and neck.
James S.A. Corey
#76. You ride horse of good intent," Naomi said. "It does not arrive at destination.
Jane Kirkpatrick
#77. I watched them roam awhile, and had a small weep, but even grief had its limits. By dinner-time I was horribly bored.
Naomi Novik
#78. Camille Paglia is: 'the nipple-pierced person's Phyllis Schlafly who poses as a sexual renegade but is in fact the most dutiful of patriarchal daughters.
Naomi Wolf
#79. [O]urs is a culture of the perpetual present, one that deliberately severs itself from the past that created us as well as the future we are shaping with our actions.
Naomi Klein
#80. I'm always trying to do the impossible to please people. It comes from not being secure in myself and not looking at the things within I have to fix. Sometimes you keep going because you don't want to face the truth.
Naomi Campbell
#81. What are other women really thinking, feeling, experiencing, when they slip away from the gaze and culture of men?
Naomi Wolf
#82. Well, when I started modeling in the mid-'80s, the girls who did shows did shows, and the girls who did magazines did magazines. That's what was understood.
Naomi Campbell
#83. The cows were all running around their pen in manic terror.
Naomi Novik
#84. My favorite sign says, 'I care about you.' In a culture that trains people to avoid each other's gaze, to say 'Let them die,' that is a deeply radical statement.
Naomi Klein
#85. Sometimes you arrive late in the process of filming, which makes it a little scary because they've already got this well-established technique going on, and all of the relationships are comfy and cozy. You have to figure out how to fit in, which can always be a scary first day.
Naomi Watts
#87. There are many paths but only one journey.
Naomi Judd
#88. I'm not stupid, nor a liar," I said, "and if I can't do any good, I can at least do something
Naomi Novik
#89. What a feat, she thinks, to want to marry every woman he fucks. He is so good at being in love that Ernest Hemingway makes a rotten husband.
Naomi Wood
#90. It was total naivety that got me to Hollywood. I thought it was going to happen straight away. I told myself 'give it 5 years, there's no way I'll be here after that if it doesn't happen'. Cut to ten years later!
Naomi Watts
#91. Life wastes nothing. Over and over again every molecule that has ever been is gathered up by the hand of life to be reshaped into yet another form.
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Rachel Naomi Remen
#92. French existentialism is an unhelpful philosophy in which to couch modern feminism: born from the ravages of the Second World War, it is a cynical, individualistic school of thought that posits the self and personal choice as the measure of life's entire meaning.
Naomi Wolf
#93. No imagination and no champagne. I'd rather not bother without those two.
Naomi Wood
#94. Goose bumps happen when your soul is close to you, breathing lightly on the back of your neck, and wakes you up.
Rachel Naomi Remen
#95. All those stories must have ended this same way, with someone tired going home from a field full of death, but no one ever sang this part.
Naomi Novik
#96. Does one ever say the same thing in the same way to two different people?
Naomi Mitchison
#97. What did exclusivity ever have to offer but a distorted, unrealistic view of the world? People who stuck only to their own kind were scared people.
Naomi Shihab Nye
#98. There is no such thing as a soulmate ... and who would want there to be? I don't want half of a shared soul. I want my own damn soul.
Ely in Naomi and Ely's No Kiss List Rachel Cohn and David Levithan
Rachel Cohn
#99. The worst was when my skirt fell down to my ankles, but I had on thick tights underneath.
Naomi Campbell
#100. Before you know what kindness really is you must lose things, feel the future dissolve in a moment like salt in a weakened broth.
Naomi Shihab Nye
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