Sally Haslanger Quotes

#1. The novelist, unlike many of his colleagues, makes up a number of word-masses roughly describing himself (roughly: niceties shallcome later), gives them names and sex, assigns them plausible gestures, and causes them to speak by the use of inverted commas, and perhaps to behave consistently.

E. M. Forster

#2. I didn't start to be an artist myself until I was 24.

Kiki Smith

#3. I'm smart enough to know that you feel it, too. This isn't just heat, it's a goddamned conflagration. Not chemistry, but nuclear fission.

J. Kenner

#4. A mother of a one-year-old boy is a movie star in a world without critics.

Allison Pearson

#5. A cheerful, easy, open countenance will make fools think you a good-natured man, and make designing men think you an undesigning one.

Lord Chesterfield

#6. The strength of my heart is the music in my spirit.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#7. Be kind. Be wise. Be free!

Jackie Coupe

#8. Artists often think they are going to die before their time. They seem to possess a heightened sense of the passing of the hours.

Catherine Drinker Bowen

#9. The distance between yourself and others should not be greater than your arm's length.

Christophe Agou

#10. this book is a wasted effort

Scott R. Jones

#11. Death's the discharge of our debt of sorrow.

Seneca The Younger

#12. There are only two kinds of class: First class and no class.

David O. Selznick

#13. I hope for an America where the power of faith will always burn brightly, but where no modern inquisition of any kind will ever light the fires of fear, coercion, or angry division.

Edward Kennedy

#14. My kids are incredibly secure. More and more of their friends' parents are divorcing, but my kids have absolute confidence that we'll stay together forever. That goes a long, long way.

Ayelet Waldman

#15. There seems to be a feeling that anything that is natural is good. Strychnine is natural.

Isaac Asimov