Visiting Quotes - Page 10

• The reason literacy is important is that literature is the operating instructions. The best manual we have. The most useful guide to the country we're visiting, life.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Country, Reading, Important

  Ursula K. Le Guin (2016). “Words Are My Matter: Writings About Life and Books, 2000-2016, with a Journal of a WriterÕs Week”, p.14, Small Beer Press

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• Each time we had a visiting writer, I asked what she thought of women and humor. By the end of the year, I had perfected my question and asked Adrienne Rich why there was so little written about women and humor. She looked at me right in the eye and said, 'You write it.' I took that as an order.

  Kate Clinton

  Eye, Writing, Years

  Kate Clinton (2012). “Don't Get Me Started”, p.8, Bywater Books

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• But, visiting Sea, your love doth press / And reach in further than you know, / And fills all these; and, when you go, / There's loneliness in loneliness.

  Alice Meynell

  Loneliness, Ocean, Sea

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• I must admit that the existence of Disneyland (which I know is real) proves that we are not living in Judaea in 50 AD. . . . Saint Paul would never go near Disneyland. Only children, tourists, and visiting Soviet high officials ever go to Disneyland. Saints do not.

  Philip K. Dick

  Children, Real, Tourists

  Philip K. Dick (1985). “I Hope I Shall Arrive Soon”, Doubleday Books

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• I'm looking forward to visiting the Philippines. I heard that there are so many big malls there and so many beaches.

  Lee Min-ho

  Beach, Philippines, Looking Forward

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• And sometimes we cling because the memory is so painful that we can't stop visiting it and hoping to make it come out differently. The risk of letting go is that we have to confront our own selves and our own possibilities.

  Amy Bloom

  Letting Go, Memories, Grief

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• A New York friend said that visiting the South reminded her of nothing more than being in high school again.

  Rosemary Daniell

  New York, School, Said

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• Visiting any shop for the first time is exciting. There's always that buzz as you push open the door; that hope; that belief - that this is going to be the shop of all shops, which will bring you everything you ever wanted, at magically low prices.

  Sophie Kinsella

  Doors, Buzz, Firsts

  Sophie Kinsella (2009). “Shopaholic Abroad: (Shopaholic Book 2)”, p.162, Random House

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• Swan, by Mary Oliver. Poems and prose. Reading from this book is as if visiting a very wise friend. There is wisdom and welcoming kindness on every page.

  Jessye Norman

  Wise, Kindness, Book

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• When you work as a day player on a film or a TV thing, like you're visiting a foreign country, where you know a couple of words of the language and a few of the cultural abnormalities, but basically you're a stranger in a strange land.

  Anthony Heald

  Country, Couple, Player

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I'm afraid that the gift of visiting the past is all that we have. We can revisit it, but only as it happened.

  Karen Essex

  Past, Happened

  Karen Essex (2010). “Dracula in Love”, p.309, Anchor

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• Visiting old haunts is hard on memory. Things shrink, change, and disappear.

  Shirley Temple

  Memories, Past, Nostalgia

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• Art is really about perception, and mine have been changed through visiting other realities.

  Fred Tomaselli

  Art, Reality, Perception

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• Perhaps for totemic reasons, people like to possess a piece of the country they are visiting. Women like to wear it. Men like to eat it.

  Mary-Lou Weisman

  Country, Travel, Men

  Mary-Lou Weisman (2003). “Traveling While Married”, p.9, Algonquin Books

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• When we were visiting New York City, I took my kids to the same playground where I went growing up. It was fun to feel that connection of having gone there as a kid and being there as a parent.

  Ben Stiller

  New York, Growing Up, Fun

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• Once rehearsals are done the writer really doesn't have a function on the set. If the script is stabilized, then the writer becomes a celebrity tourist visiting the set, trying not to get in the way. It's very good for the ego, to go visit a film set if you are the writer, because they give you a special chair, and tell you where you can sit to watch the monitor. They make you feel special, but at the same time, they make it perfectly plain that you are irrelevant!

  Tom Stoppard

  Giving, Ego, Special

  Source: deadline.com

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• I think I need to continue to think and plan and marry all of the different things that we could do that make transportation in space from the earth to the space station, from the earth to the moon to space stations around the moon to visiting an asteroid.

  Buzz Aldrin

  Moon, Thinking, Space

  "Ask Me Anything" on Reddit, www.reddit.com. July 08, 2014.

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• Visiting Future World is like opening a Chinese fortune cookie to read, "Soon you'll be finished with dinner."

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Funny, Humor, Chinese

  P.J. O'Rourke (2012). “Holidays in Hell”, p.159, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• Gluttony and satiety in food produce defiled lust, while free association with women enflames the fire of lusts ... At the time of struggle with defilement, punish your thoughts with lack of nourishment, so that you will think not of defilements, but of hunger, and reject the invitation to go visiting.

  Nilus of Sinai

  Inspirational, Christian, Religious

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• A guy wanted the vet to cut his dog's tail off. The vet asked why. Well, my mother in law is visiting next month and I want to eliminate any possible indication that she is welcome.

  Karel Capek

  Mother, Dog, Humor

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• Ways to be actively involved in the solution: 1. Consider adoption. 2. Be a regular giver of your money to Crisis Pregnancy Centers. 3. Volunteer in a Crisis Pregnancy Center. 4. Be involved in spreading truth with good literature. 5. Make your presence know at the abortion clinics in town (by) writing or phoning or visiting and talking, if you can, with those who work there. 6. Dream a new kind of ministry. 7. Pray!

  John Piper

  Dream, Pregnancy, Writing

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• I've been visiting Thailand for more than 20 years but didn't fall in love with it until I visited Phuket Town in Phuket. The northern part of Phuket is one of the most fascinating places I've ever been, and largely unspoilt and unknown.

  Tony Parsons

  Falling In Love, Years, Thailand

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• When you go to plant a flag on the visiting team's field, it's a form of taunting, .. What message are you sending when you spear it into the turf of your defeated opponent?.

  Brad Davis

  Team, Flags, Opponents

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• I went to Oberlin College, and they don't have a film major, but they do have what's called an individual major, where you can sort of pitch to a committee your own course study, and if they approve it, you have essentially just designed your own major. So Oberlin doesn't have a film major; they do have a film minor... And then my spring semester of my junior year, I went off to NYU film school as a visiting student - they have a program for kids from other schools to come in for a semester.

  Ed Helms

  Spring, School, Kids

  Interview with Keith Phipps, www.avclub.com. June 3, 2009.

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• To travel best requires some time preparing for your visit to a particular location - that you don't travel anywhere without spending a few nights reading about the culture and history of the place you are visiting. This is what most of us don't do - we fling ourselves on an exotic destination hoping that someone will tell us what we are looking at, but by that time it's too late, and all the lectures and tour guides simply add to our confusion.

  Arthur Frommer

  Reading, Night, Confusion

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