Rebecca Coleman Quotes

She looked into Kirsten's eyes and wondered how it is that a soldier fights and a savior suffers, but a woman, in lying down, rules everything. ~ Rebecca Coleman

What is it about her? he wondered hopelessly. What did she offer him that he couldn't find elsewhere? Why did he persist in seeking her out, thinking about her, wanting her, when she was exactly wrong for him in nearly every way? ~ Rebecca Coleman

Virtue untested was never virtue at all. ~ Rebecca Coleman

I have learned that all anyone ever wants is to feel at peace with the sadness and love they have cobbled together into a life, with opportunities missed and those misguidedly taken ... ~ Rebecca Coleman

History sometimes acts as madly as heredity, and her most unpredictable performances are often her most glorious. ~ Rebecca West

We know less when we erroneously think we know than when we recognize that we don't. ~ Rebecca Solnit

If gold has been prized because it is the most inert element, changeless and incorruptible, water is prized for the opposite reason
its fluidity, mobility, changeability that make it a necessity and a metaphor for life itself. To value gold over water is to value economy over ecology, that which can be locked up over that which connects all things. ~ Rebecca Solnit

Consistent contentment rarely makes for good storytelling. ~ Rebecca Serle

As a kid, I used to go see all the jazz players, Oscar Peterson, Stan Kenton, Dave Brubeck, Dizzy Gillespe. ~ Jim Coleman

I remember once I read a book on mental illness and there was a nurse that had gotten sick. Do you know what she died from? From worrying about the mental patients not being able to get their food. She became a mental patient. ~ Ornette Coleman

I'm an asshole, I know. But I'd rip off my own arm before hurting you. ~ Rebecca Zanetti

Richard Nixon had made a fatal error in ignoring the politico-meteorological dimension when he announced the expansion of the Vietnam War into Cambodia on April 30, 1970. The invasion of Laos, on the other hand, happened in February 1971, and the campuses were quiet. Who wants to stage a walkout in February? ~ Rebecca Goldstein

Tell them that as soon as I can walk I'm going to fly! ~ Bessie Coleman

I don't really live like a musician myself. I think music is just something that I do, but I'd like to be doing lots of other things. I like to cure all kinds of illness. ~ Ornette Coleman

I must be pretty special to have followed you here but arrived first. ~ Rebecca Hamilton

We have an abundance of rape and violence against women in this country and on this Earth, though it's almost never treated as a civil rights or human rights issue, or a crisis, or even a pattern. Violence doesn't have a race, a class, a religion, or a nationality, but it does have a gender. ~ Rebecca Solnit

We take most everything at face value. Otherwise how could we get by?" ~ "The Museum of the Dearly Departed ~ Rebecca Makkai

The next thing you know, the people you always thought would be there, aren't. And the person you thought you could trust with everything, isn't the person you knew at all. ~ Rebecca Donovan

It's my profession to bring people from various outlying districts of the mind to the normal. There seems to be a general feeling it's the place where they ought to be. Sometimes I don't see the urgency myself. ~ Rebecca West

Anyone who's familiar with my writing schedule knows that there is always plenty of time between books for me! ~ Rebecca Stead

While my brain is fuzzy, my emotions are clear, Josie. I know I loved you. ~ Rebecca Zanetti

I was fifteen, and when I picture myself then, I see flames shooting up, see myself falling off the edge of the world, and am amazed I survived not the outside world but the inside one. ~ Rebecca Solnit

I'd rather be a little weird than all boring. ~ Rebecca McKinsey

I thought of the scene while writing scenes with Rebecca [Hall] and wrote it like an opening montage of showing where someone works. If you see a film about a car mechanic, you'd show the place they work and what they do. So, that's what I set out to do with Rebecca's character. I thought it probably wouldn't even make it into film but I ended up liking it. ~ Nicole Holofcener

Rebecca Eaton has made an enormous contribution to the cultural life of America, and, more than that, she is one of the most fun people I know. ~ Andrew Davies

[On Jane Austen] She was fully possessed of the idealism which is a necessary ingredient of the great satirist. If she criticized the institutions of earth, it was because she had very definite ideas regarding the institutions of heaven. ~ Rebecca West

Nothing is ever so good that it can't stand a little revision, and nothing is ever so impossible and broken down that a try at fixing it is out of the question. ~ Rebecca Solnit

To me I'm just a regular person going to the mall with friends, and now I'm in Forever 21 and I see this random group of girls staring at me and taking pictures. But now I usually have my dad, who is a really tall and intimidating person with me, so he's kind of my bodyguard. ~ Rebecca Black

We're all part of universe. We all serve some purpose. ~ Rebecca A. Rogers

I don't know how you hear music. I imagine that if you like music at all then it has, in your head, some kind of third dimension to it, a dimension suggesting space as well as surface, depth of field as well as texture.
Speaking for myself, I used to hear "buildings" ... three-dimensional forms of architectural substance and tension. I did not "see" these buildings in the classic synaesthetic way so much as sense them. These forms had "floors", "walls", "roofs", "windows", "cellars". They expressed volume. Music to me has always been a handsome three-dimensional container, a vessel, as real in its way as a Scout hut or a cathedral or a ship, with an inside and an outside and subdivided internal spaces.
I'm absolutely certain that this "architecture" had everything to do with why music has always exerted such a hold over me. I think music was the structure in which I learned to contain and then examine emotion. ~ Nick Coleman

And there's no "I love you" message because Steve Ovett has married the girl ~ David Coleman

Thanks to demographics, that conservative push is not going to work-the United States is not going to be a mostly white country again- and because genies don't go back into bottles and queer people are not going back into the closet and women aren't going to surrender. It's a war, but I don't believe we're losing it, even if we won't win it anytime soon either; rather, some battles are won, some are engaged, and some women are doing really well while others suffer. And things continue to change in interesting and sometimes even auspicious ways. ~ Rebecca Solnit

Presently, I really admire Rebecca Warren, the artist. She continues to keep creating wonderful sculpture. And I met her, and she is really cool. ~ Russell Tovey

I wish I could say differently, but temporary works for me right now."
"Temporary is all I have. ~ Rebecca Zanetti

It had come to me not in a sudden epiphany but with a gradual sureness, a sense of meaning like a sense of place. When you give yourself to places, they give you yourself back; the more one comes to know them, the more one seeds them with the invisible crop of memories and associations that will be waiting for you when you come back, while new places offer up new thoughts, new possibilities. Exploring the world is one of the best ways of exploring the mind, and walking travels both terrains. ~ Rebecca Solnit

Yes, I was forced to take piano lessons for 8 years as a child. ~ Jim Coleman

You mean run away? Wolves don't run from a fight. Rebecca Winters in Lone Wolf Rising ~ Jami Brumfield

[Cabeza de Vaca] ceased to be lost not by returning but by turning into something else. ~ Rebecca Solnit

A casual observer can testify only to the moment. And what one sees will always be colored by what one longs to see. ~ Rebecca Skloot

I'm fascinated by what makes up a self, how one becomes a self, how much is it an answer to others and how much is it an essence of self. ~ Rebecca Miller

Hi, folks, I'm Jerry Gross. No, I'm not, I'm Jerry Coleman. ~ Jerry Coleman

I explained my whole theory about parenting being better if it was like a large Italian family having dinner under a tree while children play. Rebecca poured more wine and explained her theory of child-rearing, which is that you should behave as badly as possible so that the children will rebel against you and turn out like Saffron in Absolutely Fabulous. ~ Helen Fielding