Suspects Quotes - Page 30

• When the Chinese suspect someone of being a potential troublemaker, they always resort to one of two methods: they crush him, or they hoist him on a pedestal.

  Lu Xun

  Crush, Greatness, Two

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• In these times of stress, snark, division and despair, I still suspect that two of the most important features we possess are imagination and a capacity for goodness. Those are qualities for which we will be remembered most fondly.

  Geoffrey S. Fletcher

  Stress, Two, Imagination

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The idea that writing about characters of another race requires a passage through a critical gauntlet, which involves apology and self-examination of an almost punitive nature, as though the act of writing race was somehow morally suspect, is a dangerous one. This approach appears culturally sensitive, but often it reveals a failure of nerve. I believe the demand that we ought to reveals a species of fascism within the left - an embrace of political correctness with its required silences, which has left people afraid to offend or take a stand.

  C.E. Morgan

  Believe, Writing, Character

  Source: www.commonwealmagazine.org

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• Journalism has not only its social stimulations but its aesthetic virtues. An invitation into print, from however suspect a source, is an opportunity to make something beautiful, to discover within oneself a treasure that would otherwise have remained buried.

  John Updike

  Beautiful, Opportunity, Treasure

  "More Matter" by John Updike, www.nytimes.com. 1999.

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• I had been afraid of breast cancer, as I suspect most women are, from the time I hit adolescence. At that age, when our emerging sexuality is our central preoccupation, the idea of disfigurement of a breast is particularly horrifying.

  Geraldine Brooks

  Cancer, Ideas, Age

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• Someday I suspect, when Jesus has definitely got me for a sunbeam, my works may be adequately assessed.

  Noel Coward

  Jesus, Judging, Literature

  Noel Coward, Barry Day (2009). “The Essential Noël Coward Compendium: The Very Best of His Work, Life and Times”, p.363, A&C Black

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• Washington is a place where people have always been suspect of style and overt sexuality. Too much preening signals that you're not up late studying cap-and-trade agreements.

  Maureen Dowd

  Agreement, People, Style

  "Should Michelle Cover Up?" by Maureen Dowd, www.nytimes.com. March 7, 2009.

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• I suspect that any worthwhile exploration of these deep questions about living requires going beyond abstract discussions to the vivid presentation of possibilities. If readers are to be prompted to serious examination of their lives, anatomy isn't enough. We have to be stimulated to imagine, in some detail, what it would be like to live in particular ways.

  Philip Kitcher

  Details, Would Be, Examination

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• I used to suspect that in the brain, time is its own representation. I now think the problem is so much more complicated. Initially I was rather impressed by the experiments showing that on complex problems, subjects who are distracted do better in getting an answer than either those who answer immediately or those who spend time reflecting on the problem.

  Patricia Churchland

  Thinking, Brain, Answers

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• What I didn't realize when I was in school and what I suspect a lot of young writers today don't get either is that you have to create the world that you want to exist in as an artist.

  John D'Agata

  School, Artist, World

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• The harpsichord was actually ideologically considered a very questionable instrument in that period, much like I think it's ideologically considered suspect today in some circles.

  Mahan Esfahani

  Thinking, Circles, Today

  "How To Annoy Your Dad: Play The Harpsichord". "All Things Considered" with Robert Siegel, www.npr.org. December 29, 2015.

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• There's a religious basis to their [Bush and Chaney] kind of conservatism. It's rooted in a kind of fundamentalism. I'm afraid of that. I don't like that idea. I think all extremism is suspect.

  Sydney Pollack

  Religious, Thinking, Ideas

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• Basically, I've reached the point where I've lost any direct relationship to any of the editors I used to have. I suspect I'll have to pay to publish this myself, and I think a lot about about putting out fifty copies. I used to think about hogwash like my legacy and silly things like that. But I feel like if I never have another book out, I've done okay, I've had like twelve or thirteen little books, and I won't be upset about this on my death bed.

  Richard Meltzer

  Silly, Book, Thinking

  Source: therumpus.net

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• If you think it's worth writing a book about then that means you suspect that you're not the only one. You suspect that it has something to do with the larger patterns of your culture.

  Lucy Corin

  Book, Writing, Mean

  Source: therumpus.net

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• There's a certain pressure you put on yourself to use the comics page to full advantage that can focus your mind to a pinpoint, and when the juices are flowing, that's incredibly exciting. When you've managed to fit a complex set of actions or a complicated emotional passage into a single page there's the sense of satisfaction that I suspect a sculptor gets from chipping away at a piece of stone and ending up with a fully-realized work of art.

  James Vance

  Art, Emotional, Focus

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I had ancestors who were slave-holders, which is a difficult piece of family history to say the least. In a recent New York Times article on the subject of modern attitudes toward our slave-holding past, the writer noted that we all want to be from "innocent origins." I _know_ I'm not. Then again, I suspect most of us are not.

  Laura Lippman

  New York, Attitude, Past

  Interview with Jon Jordan, www.bookbrowse.com.

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• Does God judge us by appearances? I Suspect that He does.

  W. H. Auden

  Judging, Doe, Appearance

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• Time and time again throughout the latter part of the Cold War, liberals chose a morally perverse pose. They would seek to find any suspect motive or impure act on the part of the United States rather than confront the staggering scale of destruction and misery being wrought by our adversaries.

  Mona Charen

  War, United States, Misery

  Mona Charen (2003). “Useful Idiots: How Liberals Got It Wrong in the Cold War and Still Blame America First”, p.261, Regnery Publishing

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• When [my father] asked me to help him, I really didn't suspect the consequences.

  Indira Gandhi

  Father, Helping, Consequence

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• The higher the moral tone, the more suspect the speaker.

  Mason Cooley

  Literature, Tone, Moral

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• I saw no African people in the printed and illustrated Sunday school lessons. I began to suspect at this early age that someone had distorted the image of my people. My long search for the true history of African people the world over began.

  John Henrik Clarke

  School, Sunday, Long

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• The only thing I might have noticed [and this is pretty anecdotal] is that there is some tendency to need to be taught that 'writing is rewriting' - maybe more of a sense than was pervasive 10 years ago that the first or second pass of a story is sufficient. That is an idea that is easily dislodged, but I suspect it might have something to do with the turnaround time re: blogging and so on - this sense that there is some essential truth about a first draft that one runs the risk of "ruining" by coming back to it.

  George Saunders

  Running, Writing, Years

  "George Saunders on Trump, Mystery, and Why He Rejects Social Media". Interview with Catherine Woodiwiss, sojo.net. August 30, 2016.

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• I know playwrights who like to kid themselves into saying that their characters are so well formed that they just take over. They determine the structure of the play. By which is meant, I suspect, only that the unconscious mind has done its work so thoroughly that the play just has to be filtered through the conscious mind. But there's work to be done - and discovery to be made.

  Edward Albee

  Character, Kids, Discovery

  Edward Albee, Philip C. Kolin (1988). “Conversations with Edward Albee”, p.63, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• I suspect that the theme, the nature of the characters, and the method of getting from the beginning of the play to the end is already established in the unconscious.

  Edward Albee

  Character, Play, Ends

  Edward Albee, Philip C. Kolin (1988). “Conversations with Edward Albee”, p.64, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• Regular panelists on shows can be terrifying. They own that space, and many guest comics suspect they are favoured in the edit, while their own hilarious jokes end up being ejected into the ether.

  Jo Brand

  Space, Guests, Ends

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