Sarah Bakewell Quotes

#1. That's our job as artists is to be honest about what we're feeling. And what we're feeling is not always going to be perfect. Sometimes it's going to be controversial. Sometimes it's going to piss a couple of people off. Sometimes it's going to motivate people. Sometimes it's going to inspire.

Pharrell Williams

#2. Seneca put it, life does not pause to remind you that it is running out.

Sarah Bakewell

#3. Youth is about the only thing worth having, and that is about the only thing youth has.

E.W. Howe

#4. Ideas are interesting, but people are vastly more so.

Sarah Bakewell

#5. Huge numbers of people in London depend on their cars. Fuel duty is becoming a big factor in people's cost of living. I believe in trying to ease these burdens.

Boris Johnson

#6. I'm a fixer, Allie. Taking care of others is what I do. I don't know how to turn it off.

Melissa A. Craven

#7. You should make your choices as though you were choosing on behalf of the whole of humanity,

Sarah Bakewell

#8. You might be a redneck if you have every episode of Hee Haw on tape.

Jeff Foxworthy

#9. Each man is a good education to himself, provided he has the capacity to spy on himself from close up.

Sarah Bakewell

#10. The wiles of a veteran turned the younger man's own gift of speed against him.

Geraldine Brooks

#11. Do I contradict myself? Very well then I contradict myself, (I am large, I contain multitudes.)

Sarah Bakewell

#12. As history has repeatedly suggested, nothing is more effective for demolishing traditional legal protections than the combined claims that a crime is uniquely dangerous, and that those behind it have exceptional powers of resistance. [On witchburning in France during the 16th Century.]

Sarah Bakewell

#13. for Arendt, if you do not respond adequately when the times demand it, you show a lack of imagination and attention that is as dangerous as deliberately committing an abuse.

Sarah Bakewell

#14. No money on earth can buy the love and affection that has been given to me by a grateful nation.

Abdul Qadeer Khan

#15. Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom',

Sarah Bakewell

#16. Seneca did this too: Place before your mind's eye the vast spread of time's abyss, and consider the universe; and then contrast our so-called human life with infinity.

Sarah Bakewell

#17. Truth and reality in art begin at the point where the artist ceases to understand what he is doing and capable of doing - yet feels in himself a force that becomes steadily stronger ... and more concentrated.

Henri Matisse

#18. Suffer love! A good ephitet! I do suffer love indeed, for I love thee against my will.

William Shakespeare

#19. As is true for most people I know, I've always loved learning. As is also true for most people I know, I always hated school. Why is that?

Derrick Jensen