Top 100 Sedgwick Quotes
#1. Kyra Sedgwick told me, 'Keep your heart where your feet are' and that's incredibly difficult to do. It takes a lot of concentration. You've got to be conscientious of each other.
Angie Harmon
#2. My two style icons are Edie Sedgwick and Brigitte Bardot.
Pixie Lott
#3. I've been making a diary of the daft things people have said during London Fashion Week, and it does wear a little bit thin, everyone comparing my name to Edie Sedgwick.
Edie Campbell
#4. That's enough. You can stop now: the phrase Sedgwick said she longed to hear whenever she was suffering. (Enough hurting, enough showing off, enough achieving, enough talking, enough trying, enough writing, enough living.)
Maggie Nelson
#5. Edie Sedgwick had a cool style; she pushed the envelope for the time.
Taylor Momsen
#6. Edie Sedgwick, Debbie Harry, Chloe Sevigny, Michelle Obama, and my friend Eugenie Niarchos each have their own great sense of style.
Elisabeth Von Thurn Und Taxis
#7. Kate Sedgwick. That name holds so much power over me. The best kind of power: inspiring, encouraging, and respectable. It's a name that I've always associated with badass bravery. It's a name that always meant anything was possible. It's a name that was love and goodness and kindness.
Kim Holden
#8. My style is Edie Sedgwick meets Grace Jones, or Audrey Hepburn meets Salt 'n' Pepa. Strong and feisty but still classic.
Estelle
#9. I think Stella Tennant is amazing. And then I really loved all those '60s society models, like Edie Sedgwick.
Edie Campbell
#11. To be included in the group with women like Glenn Close and Kyra Sedgwick is a little bit astonishing to me. To even be mentioned in the same sentence as Glenn Close is just ridiculous.
Julianna Margulies
#12. I see you're in a hurry to get someplace. It's a great mistake to hurry." "Why?" Joe asked, puzzled by almost everything the traveler said. "Because the grave's our destination," Mr. Sedgwick said. "Those who hurry usually get to it quicker than those who take their time.
Larry McMurtry
#13. All these many-coloured feelings fell... like light on a black surface, producing no change, meeting no return.
Catharine Maria Sedgwick
#15. I have an accident about every two years, and one day it won't be an accident.
Edie Sedgwick
#16. There never was a story that was happy through and through.
Marcus Sedgwick
#17. The ability of anyone in the culture to support and honour gay kids may depend on an ability to name them as such, notwithstanding that many gay adults may never have been gay kids and some gay kids may not turn into gay adults.
Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick
#18. We cannot take one step in geology without drawing upon the fathomless stores of by-gone time.
Adam Sedgwick
#19. I'm in love with everyone I've ever met in one way or another. I'm just a crazy, unhinged disaster of a human being.
Edie Sedgwick
#20. I'm afraid of habit patterns It would be too much of a routine if you had to establish definite ways of getting through things. You'd get very bored.
Edie Sedgwick
#21. There is no unthreatened, unthreatening conceptual home for the concept of gay origins. We have all the more reason, then, to keep our understanding of gay origin, of gay cultural and material reproduction, plural, multi-capillaried, argus-eyed, respectful, and endlessly cherished.
Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick
#22. And none of you stand so tall, a pink moon gonna get you all.
Marcus Sedgwick
#23. If I had ever, in any medium, seen any researcher or popularizer refer even once to any supposedly ay-producing circumstance as the proper hormone balance, or the conducive endocrine environment, for gay generation, I would be less chilled by the breezes of all this technological confidence.
Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick
#24. The pretended physical philosophy of modern days strips Man of all his moral attributes, or holds them of no account in the estimate of his origin and place in the created world.
Adam Sedgwick
#25. You have to put up with the risk of being misunderstood if you are going to try to communicate.
Edie Sedgwick
#26. The crimes the law can understand are not the worst crimes.
Larry McMurtry
#27. I was going to get smart, and I was going to change the world. I was audacious enough to believe it, too. Fortunately it takes that kind of audacity to accomplish anything significant.
Jamie Sedgwick
#28. There's always a third choice in life. Even if you think you're stuck between two impossible choices, there's always a third way. You just have to look for it.
Marcus Sedgwick
#30. A gun is not a weapon," Einar once said to Sig. "It's and answer...
Marcus Sedgwick
#31. Sometimes when you do a part, the wall between you and the characters can be very porous. You can sort of move in and out of your character's persona and being. And that just couldn't happen on this one because of working with him.
Kyra Sedgwick
#32. When I connect to my soul, project it into another # character , and then bring it to the stage or to a film
that has always been for me the great joy of # acting . It's been as if my soul kind of leaps out of my body and is able to be free and dance around.
Kyra Sedgwick
#33. That is how the dead survive: they live in our memories, and some of the times that is a good thing and beautiful, and other times it is not good, and then the dead are like a virus in the blood, an infection of the mind. Then,
Marcus Sedgwick
#34. I wonder if Eve could write letters in Paradise! But, poor Eve, she had no one to write to - no one to whom to tell what Eden was, no beloved child to whom her love traveled through any or all space. Poor Eve!
Catharine Sedgwick
#35. He wonders if a few moments of utter and total joy can be worth a lifetime of struggle.
Maybe, he thinks. Maybe, if they're the right moments.
Marcus Sedgwick
#36. One doesn't love any of the things of Summer as much as one does the things of Spring.
Anne Douglas Sedgwick
#37. I came to New York to see what I could see - that's from a children's book, isn't it? - and to find the living part.
Edie Sedgwick
#39. He had learned something already in the course of his journey. If you carried a closed wooden box, people want to know what is in it.
Marcus Sedgwick
#40. You care enough, that you want your life to be fulfilled in a living way, not in a painting way, not in a writing way ... you really do want it to be involving in living, corresponding with other living objects, moving, changing, that kind of thing.
Edie Sedgwick
#41. It was like a new kind of vision, seeing with eyes as keen as scalpel blades, that cut away desires and emotions and wishful thinking and left only what was fact.
Marcus Sedgwick
#42. I do it because I want to exercise people's compassion and I do it because I really believe that for some reason what I do is important and meaningful.
Kyra Sedgwick
#43. One final time I told myself I wasn't abducting my little brother.
Marcus Sedgwick
#44. I am scared almost all the time. But I never tell anyone. I can't afford to. I have to go on pretending I'm this confident person, because if I don't, if I'm quiet, I become invisible.
Marcus Sedgwick
#45. The powers of nature are never in repose; her work never stands still.
Adam Sedgwick
#46. I might have been normal but if I was I cannot remember that time.
Marcus Sedgwick
#47. All he felt was that same feeling he'd always had, that he was looking for something, whose name he didn't even know, and yet now, in the dark of the night and with his father had gone to wherever his mother had gone before, with Anna sitting beside him, he suddenly knew its name. Home.
Marcus Sedgwick
#48. It's that I'm 39. I feel hot and sexy, actually ... I feel it inside myself. I don't feel dried up and tired and no longer interested in sex is what I'm trying to say.
Kyra Sedgwick
#49. While it is challenging working with a kid, because they're so of the moment all the time. My acting style is to try to take something from my life that the character can relate to and that I can relate the character to.
Kyra Sedgwick
#50. Cold didn't worry him unduly. Given that his normal body temperature was way below human levels, the dip in the river had been no more than refreshing, certainly not deadly.
Marcus Sedgwick
#51. People think I have so much faith in myself, but I have none. I have no faith in myself, or in what I can do, and yet people think I can do anything I want.
That's how I seem, but it's an illusion. It's an act, nothing more.
Marcus Sedgwick
#52. We do spend time talking about it and we puzzle through it together. We ride the roller coasters together - the high highs and the low lows.
Kyra Sedgwick
#53. In America, getting on in the world means getting out of the world we have known before.
Ellery Sedgwick
#54. One of the advantages of having a binary vascular system was that he could always pump his blood faster than normal if he chose to, raising his body temperature at will.
Marcus Sedgwick
#55. I have too much respect for the characters I play to make them anything but as real as they can possibly be. I have a great deal of respect for all of them, otherwise I wouldn't do them. And I don't want to screw them by not portraying them honestly.
Kyra Sedgwick
#56. It's not that I don't see myself as hot and sexy. Don't get me wrong. No, it's not that.
Kyra Sedgwick
#57. He put a ring in the toe of a stocking. On Christmas Eve, we opened our stockings and it was there at the bottom of the toe. Then he got down on his knees and he was shaking.
Kyra Sedgwick
#58. As a system of philosophy it is not like the Tower of Babel, so daring its high aim as to seek a shelter against God's anger; but it is like a pyramid poised on its apex.
Adam Sedgwick
#59. I'm fond of observing how obsession is the most durable form of intellectual capital.
Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick
#60. Slowly he had learned that there is a world beneath the visible one, and that people, some people at least, have a different life, that they carry inside them.
Marcus Sedgwick
#61. If the [Vestiges] be true, the labours of sober induction are in vain; religion is a lie; human law is a mass of folly, and a base injustice; morality is moonshine; our labours for the black people of Africa were works of madmen; and man and woman are only better beasts!
Adam Sedgwick
#62. Shame is such an intense emotion. It just can drive you.
Kyra Sedgwick
#63. The time for princes and tsars and holy madmen was gone.
In its place came a world of war and revolution, of tanks and
telephones, murder and assassination.
Marcus Sedgwick
#64. I'll have to put more earrings on. I bet that someone could analyze me and tell my condition by my earrings.
Edie Sedgwick
#65. It is unnecessary to heighten the glory of day by comparing it with the preceding twilight.
Catharine Maria Sedgwick
#66. Love, he decided, is not about how much someone else cares for you, it's about how much you care for someone else.
Marcus Sedgwick
#67. I feel that our planet is in peril and that creating a sustainable planet for my children and my children's children is the most important thing I can do in this lifetime.
Kyra Sedgwick
#68. I can't get hired in a studio movie. Everything is so uphill.
Kyra Sedgwick
#70. They couldn't hit an elephant at this distance.
John Sedgwick
#71. Love, sing, cry, and fight, but all the time, seek to know everything you can about the earth upon which you stand, till your time is done.
Marcus Sedgwick
#72. If I were dead, I wouldn't be sad, and I wouldn't be glad, because I wouldn't be.
Marcus Sedgwick
#73. I'd like to turn the whole world on just for a moment. Just for a moment.
Edie Sedgwick
#74. I've heard of many people who claim they'd as soon their children were dead as gay. What it took me a long time to believe is that these people are saying no more than the truth. They even speak for others too delicate to use the cruel words.
Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick
#76. If there's one thing a goblin hates more than being poor, it's being dead.
Jamie Sedgwick
#78. Whether it be in a small movie or a big movie, I would always be attracted to this role.
Kyra Sedgwick
#79. When you study history, you're really studying yourself. Every bit of history I've uncovered about my own family has some remnant in myself.
John Sedgwick
#80. A cold atheistical materialism is the tendency of the so-called material philosophy of the present day.
Adam Sedgwick
#81. If all I cared about was me, I could make a million. And that's what they will never understand.
Edie Sedgwick
#82. Have you ever noticed the softness of a kitten's feet? - they are like raspberries to hold in one's hand.
Anne Douglas Sedgwick
#83. It's like my having to walk down thousands and thousands of white marble stairs ... and nothing but a very very blue sky, very blue ... and I'd have to walk down them forever. I never thought about going up ... Don't you think that must mean something?
Edie Sedgwick
#85. Ever since I had my first child I have been passionate in my commitment to preserve our precious resources for my children and their children's children. This is the obligation of all of us visiting this planet for a limited time.
Kyra Sedgwick
#86. Stories twist and turn and grow and meet and give birth to other stories. Here and there, one story touches another, and a familiar character, sometimes the hero, walks over the bridge from one story into another.
Marcus Sedgwick
#87. I've always been able to let stuff go when I'm done with work.
Kyra Sedgwick
#88. If a life can be ruined in a single moment, a moment of betrayal, or violence, or ill luck, then why can a life not also be saved, be worth living, be made, by just a few pure moments of perfection?
Marcus Sedgwick
#89. I can understand other people's situations in their own terms, but I still can't understand mine.
Edie Sedgwick
#91. I'm going to embarrass my kids - sex is important. Sex is really important.
Kyra Sedgwick
#92. Have you ever analyzed things to the degree where you can't really remember the difference between what's real and what you've created in your head?
Edie Sedgwick
#93. A story has its purpose and its path. It must be told correctly for it to be understood.
Marcus Sedgwick
#94. Some of the best roles are for women in these independent, smaller movies.
Kyra Sedgwick
#95. To be remembered in the heart of a loved one is to live forever
Marcus Sedgwick
#96. In the year 2000 you're going to have a problem ... Leisure time will be a problem in the year 2000. I just want you to realize, I just want to make sure that you know of it now.
Edie Sedgwick
#97. They said something funny. They said, 'Even God leaves on the last boat from Nome.' What does that mean?
Marcus Sedgwick
#98. The fundamental truth of democracy is the belief that the real pleasures of life are increased by sharing them.
Henry Dwight Sedgwick
#99. He'd watch the loading and unloading of boats; the building of houses, shacks, and huts; and above all, the people, each carrying a bundle of stories inside them.
Marcus Sedgwick
#100. Secondly, I continued my education in a more important way,
through the observation of everyone around me,
because nothing is more important to learn in life than
the interaction of a human being with another human being.
Marcus Sedgwick
