Best Inhabiting Quotes
58 Inhabiting quotes by 49 unique authors
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We fret about words, we writers. Words mean. Words point. They are arrows. Arrows stuck in the rough hide of reality. And the more portentous,…
— Susan Sontag
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At a moderate calculation, among a million of persons inhabiting the metropolis, there are, at least, twenty-five thousand children who attend these schools, and cost…
— Joseph Lancaster
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The cumulative effect of the Romantic theory of creativity, as played out in the context of belief in the virtue of the avant-garde, is that…
— John Walford
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I remember vividly what it's like to read as a 10-year-old - that passionate inhabiting of a book.
— China Mieville
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I've been doing this since I was 10 years old, inhabiting different people and playing different roles.
— Don Cheadle
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Dictators are ludicrous characters, and, you know, in my career and in my life, I've always enjoyed sort of inhabiting these ludicrous, larger-than-life characters that…
— Sacha Baron Cohen
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I began to think that if you're a stutterer, it's about inhabiting silence, emptiness, and nothingness.
— Tom Hooper
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Salamander: Originally a reptile inhabiting fire; later, an anthropomorphous immortal, but still a pyrophile. Salamanders are now believed to be extinct, the last one of…
— Ambrose Bierce
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Back in high school, there was something fun and dangerous about inhabiting a different personality.
— Tim Heidecker
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Being an actor, imitating to the point of inhabiting the lives of others, may simply be a way of continuing to do what I learned…
— Viggo Mortensen
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Most people think that a widow is inhabiting some elegiac world of - it's like Mozart's 'Requiem Mass.' You know, it's very beautiful and elevated…
— Joyce Carol Oates
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Known colloquially as 'winter,' 'golden needle,' and 'velvet foot' mushrooms, enoki mushrooms grow across much of the world, inhabiting dead conifer trees and stumps, and…
— Paul Stamets
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...until that moment I had not understood that this was a story about lonely people, about absence and loss, and that that was why I…
— Carlos Ruiz Zafon
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Though Anne was born in Alabama and schooled in Mississippi, she had traveled North, and, like many Southerners, gained a theoretical understanding of the concept…
— Kathy Reichs
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When one of my Japanese teacups is broken, I imagine that the real cause was not the careless hand of a maid but the anxieties…
— Fernando Pessoa
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But to be perfectly frank, this childish idea that the author of a novel has some special insight into the characters in the novel...it's ridiculous.…
— John Green
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You never get involved in the people's lives? The ones you're inhabiting?" I shake my head. "You try to leave the lives the way you…
— David Levithan
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Conceit, arrogance, and egotism are the essentials of patriotism. ... Patriotism assumes that our globe is divided into little spots, each one surrounded by an…
— Emma Goldman
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As to those in the World Trade Center...Let's get a grip here, shall we? True enough, they were civilians of a sort. But innocent? Gimme…
— Ward Churchill
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This body is not a home, but an inn; and that only for a short time. Seneca Friendship is composed of a single soul inhabiting…
— Aristotle
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We have reached a new milestone as a human family. With seven billion of us now inhabiting our planet, it is time to ask some…
— Ban Ki-moon
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For me, I try to see difficulties as a way of expanding and growing as a person inhabiting this planet.
— Jane Badler
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Friendship is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.
— Plautus
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The several tribes of Indians inhabiting the regions of the Upper Missouri, and of whom I spoke in my last Letter, are undoubtedly the finest…
— George Catlin
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We have forgotten that we have not come to an empty land to inherit it, but we have come to conquer a country from people…
— Moshe Sharett
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