Top 88 Renata Quotes
#1. When you are done living for yourself, only then do you learn that living for others is the privilege,' Renata
Alan Furst
#2. My husband hits me, Renata. Never on the face of course. He's far too classy for that. Does yours hit you?
Liane Moriarty
#3. The mere mention of Levi caused Renata's lips to curve upward.
K. Margaret
#4. I was constantly being pushed toward a European ideal of what it means to be a classical or opera singer, let's say in the Renata Tebaldi mode. I reject that.
Renee Fleming
#5. Renata reached out for the gun nearest to her and a full magazine of rounds. She had the weapon loaded, locked and ready for action in three seconds flat. Niko had never seen anything sexier in his life.
Lara Adrian
#6. Miss Renata Tebaldi was always sweet and very firm ... she had dimples of iron.
Rudolf Bing
#7. How could I have been a wife, a mother and a singer? Who takes care of the piccolini when you go around the world? Your children would not call you 'Mama,' but 'Renata.'
Renata Tebaldi
#8. Darcy hadn't thought so at first, but he was beginning to suspect his wife might have something akin to opinions of her own. As
Renata McMann
#9. ... the particular consequence of his moral vanity was that when he did people an injury, he never forgave them. Never again.
Renata Adler
#10. People have been modeling their lives after films for years, but the medium is somehow unsuited to moral lessons, cautionary tales or polemics of any kind.
Renata Adler
#11. ... a kind of Calvinist in reverse; that is, he was uncompromisingly bohemian
Renata Adler
#12. Sometimes I think they are writers who do not write. That "writers write" is meant to be self-evident. People like to say it. I find it is hardly ever true. Writers drink. Writers rant. Writers phone. Writers sleep. I have met very few writers that write at all.
Renata Adler
#13. The world is a library and we are its stories.
Renata Bowers
#14. The time for prizes and competitions at art festivals is over. Competition is too closely tied to values that are alien to the arts.
Renata Adler
#15. People who are less happy, I find, are always consoling those who are more.
Renata Adler
#16. The best advice I can give a young aspiring singer is not to become an old aspiring singer.
Renata Scotto
#17. You'd be teary, too, yes you would be," he said, "if a girl and her bed had crashed into your head.
Renata Bowers
#18. I love the laconic. Clearly, I am not of their number.
Renata Adler
#20. That 'writers write' is meant to be self-evident. People like to say it. I find it is hardly ever true. Writers drink. Writers rant. Writers phone. Writers sleep. I have met very few writers who write at all.
Renata Adler
#21. Writing about writing is a bit like talking about a conversation you are having; it tends to obscure desperation about where the next word is coming from.
Renata Adler
#22. Grandma always has an opinion, especially about other people.
Renata Suerth
#23. I think maybe writers come from different planets. I mean, not in any sense as extravagant as Baryshnikov. But there are some writers who understand each other this way and others who understand each other that way. Then there's this great herd, the "herd of independent minds."
Renata Adler
#24. Frieda B.'s a big dreamer, that's certainly true, but the world's biggest dreamer is also in you. All the color and music inside - set it free. Just dream your dreams big and believe they can be.
Renata Bowers
#25. But they never again passed up the opportunity to read a good book, together.
Renata Bowers
#26. Lyda was an exuberant, even a dramatic gardener ... She was always holding up a lettuce or a bunch of radishes with an air of resolute courage, as though she had shot them herself.
Renata Adler
#27. Aldo said he was bored to tearsies by my grandmother's diminutives.
Renata Adler
#28. It is always self-defeating to pretend to a generation younger than your own; it simply erases your own experience in history.
Renata Adler
#30. My capacity for having a good time exists. It surfaces, however, on odd occasions.
Renata Adler
#32. I get letters constantly from all over the world, telephone calls from America, Brazil, Australia, all over, especially on my birthday. A family? I have a huge international family. That's all I need.
Renata Tebaldi
#33. Being neurotic seemed to be a kind of wild card, an all-purpose explanation.
Renata Adler
#34. The roof of the front porch of the house is covered, for some reason, with moss, and also, on one side, with wisteria, which gives the house a sort of raffish Veronica Lake look, a disheveled charm.
Renata Adler
#35. Hardly anyone about whom I deeply care at all resembles anyone else I have ever met, or heard of, or read about in literature.
Renata Adler
#36. The radical intelligence in the moderate position is the only place where the center holds. Or so it seems.
Renata Adler
#37. Maybe there are stories, even, like solitaire or canasta; they are shuffled and dealt, then they do or they do not come out. Or the deck falls on the floor. Or a piece of country music, a quartet, a parade, the flag - all the things one ought by now to be too old for - touch, whatever it is.
Renata Adler
#38. The pressures were wrong. There was just enough money and not enough time.
Renata Adler
#39. Things have changed very much, several times, since I grew up, and, like everyone in New York except the intellectuals, I have led several lives and I still lead some of them.
Renata Adler
#41. The whole magic of a plot requires that somebody be impeded from getting something over with.
Renata Adler
#43. So by keeping her word, Frieda B. made amends. And the two who'd been strangers became best of friends.
Renata Bowers
#44. A favorite strategy was the paragraph-terminating: Right? Followed immediately by Wrong. This linear invitation to a mugging was considered a strategy of wit.
Renata Adler
#45. There is a difference, of course, between real sentiment and the trash of shared experience.
Renata Adler
#46. Idle people are often bored and bored people, unless they sleep a lot, are cruel. It is not accident that boredom and cruelty are great preoccupations in our time.
Renata Adler
#47. ... They used the fail-safe method for undergraduate work at any solid institution: take two utterly unrelated things or matters and show that they are, if not in fact identical, actually related in the most profound and subtle sense.
Renata Adler
#48. I don't know what's worse, being ignored or stared at.
Renata Suerth
#49. What if my boobs decide to grow WHILE I'm at school?
Renata Suerth
#50. Moral self-infatuation has its own corruptions, after all. With time, almost every other principle of the magazine acquired an ironic echo, a sort of cackling aftermath.
Renata Adler
#52. The writer has a grudge against society, which he documents with accounts of unsatisfying sex, unrealized ambition, unmitigated loneliness, and a sense of local and global distress.
Renata Adler
#54. She was by no means one of the great refusers. Not an existentialist hero, or a Rosa Parks, or even a Bartleby.
Renata Adler
#56. There are so many different types of writers. It's just sheer coincidence that they're all called writers.
Renata Adler
#57. In the strange heat all litigation brings to bear on things, the very process of litigation fosters the most profound misunderstandings in the world.
Renata Adler
#58. I was in love many times. This is very good for a woman.
Renata Tebaldi
#59. Love is linked to the fact that in the end we know nothing about the object
that attracts us in the Other, and that at the same time the Other knows nothing
about this object that is in him more than himself, i.e. what makes someone
attracted to him.
Renata Salecl
#60. My dislike has no consequences. It accrues only in my mind - like preserves on a shelf or guns zeroing in, and never firing.
Renata Adler
#61. The dishes that were meant to be hot were never quite as warm as those that were meant to be chilled.
Renata Adler
#63. Nothing defines the quality of life in a community more clearly than people who regard themselves, or whom the consensus chooses to regard, as mentally unwell.
Renata Adler
#64. Belief in a child nurtures the belief of a child.
Renata Bowers
#65. What's in your head is more important than what's on your head. - THE WIG: Crazy Summer
Renata Suerth
#66. Bored people, unless they sleep a lot, are cruel.
Renata Adler
#67. Sanity ... is the most profound moral option of our time.
Renata Adler
#68. Did I throw the most important thing perhaps, by accident, away?
Renata Adler
#69. My grandmother refused to concede that any member of the family died of natural causes. An uncle's cancer in middle age occurred because all the suitcases fell off the luggage rack onto him when he was in his teens, and so forth. Death was an acquired characteristic.
Renata Adler
#70. Fear ... is forward. No one is afraid of yesterday.
Renata Adler
#71. The second rat, of course, may have been the first rat farther uptown, in which case I am either being followed or the rat keeps the same rounds and hours I do. I think sanity, however, is the most profound moral option of our time. Two rats, then.
Renata Adler
#72. I gave my last concert in 1976. For 32 years, I had given everything I had. I wanted to stop. My last big debut was in Russia in 1973. After I retired, I didn't have to worry about going out in bad weather. I could stay up late.
Renata Tebaldi
#73. The style of flirtation specific to classrooms was of service to the students all their lives.
Renata Adler
#75. You should never be too much involved ... otherwise, you suffer and you can't sing. This is what happened in the very first years I sang Madame Butterfly.
Renata Scotto
#76. Do you realize how angry you sound? must be one of the most infuriating questions in the language.
Renata Adler
#77. A sweet kiss on her head made her little heart swell; she had pancakes, her dog. She had love. All was well.
Renata Bowers
#78. They were saying "Make peace, not war," and so, the Commander of the Ohio State National Guard testified in the course of the Kent State trials, he threw a rock at them.
Renata Adler
#80. And although Frieda B. didn't feel it inside, the belief of her friend gave her courage to try.
Renata Bowers
#81. Most movies are not very good. Most people know it and like to see them anyway.
Renata Adler
#82. No one ever confides a secret to one person only. No one destroys all copies of a document.
Renata Adler
#83. Self-pity is just sadness, I think, in the pejorative.
Renata Adler
#85. But you are, you know, you were, the nearest thing to a real story to happen in my life
Renata Adler
#87. If you once cede to the Court the power to decide elections, let alone even the power to halt counting of the votes, then you have ceded it everything.
Renata Adler
#88. I wonder if you know at all what is happening in my heart, what a word. I suppose you don't. You've so many females, wife, sister, daughters, cousins, dog, in your life that you've probably confused me with them all.
Renata Adler
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