Rebecca Quotes

I would have started writing a lot earlier if I hadn't been [Arthur Miller's daughter].

That's one thing I find about having children - it does unlock a door that separates you from other women who've had children.

There's that statement, "A picture is worth a thousand words" - well, I think flying around in Google Earth is worth a million words.

I feel very fortunate to have been sort of a tiny instigator, using technology for good.

I'm basically a computer science nerd.

Life is a mystery. Life is uncertain. It makes one feel a bit wobbly to realize that.

Thinking about quantum physics is like unraveling your brain and putting it back together again upside down. Much like studying Kabbalah.

I am always in awe of people who devote their lives to a good cause and are brave enough to take a stance, though it may be controversial in their time.

I think life throws enough curveballs that you shouldn't make such a big deal out of everything.

I guess I can be a little neurotic sometimes, but can't everybody?

I love uplifting television.

I really like listening to music when I'm hiking or exercising. I don't like hearing myself breathe.

Making people laugh is the greatest experience.

I try to break a sweat every day. It doesn't always happen that way, but that's the goal.

The earth itself is slightly resistant to routine.

Man is a hating rather than a loving animal.

There are two kinds of imperialists - imperialists and bloody imperialists.

There is no escape from mystery. It is the character of our being.

[The satirist] must fully possess, at least in the world of the imagination, the quality the lack of which he is deriding in others.

The memory, experiencing and re-experiencing, has such power over one's mere personal life, that one has merely lived.

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

It's an absurd error to put modern English literature in the curriculum. You should read contemporary literature for pleasure or not at all. You shouldn't be taught to monkey with it.

It appears that even the different parts of the same person do not converse among themselves, do not succeed in learning from each other what are their desires and their intentions.

Fiction and poetry are the only way one can stop time and give an account of an experience and nail it down so that it lasts for ever.

I had a glorious father, I had no father at all.

If I do not do sensible things about investments I shall spend my old age in a workhouse, where nobody will understand my jokes.

Where there is real love one wants to go to church first.

His smile bore the same relation to a real smile as false teeth do to real teeth.

... to lovers innumerable things do not matter.

Why must you always try to be omnipotent, and shove things about? Tragic things happen sometimes that we just have to submit to.

Christianity must be regarded not as a final revelation but as a phase of revelation.

I really write to find out what I know about something and what is to be known about something.

I don't believe that to understand is necessarily to pardon, but I feel that to understand makes one forget that one cannot pardon.

It would be no loss to the world if most of the writers now writing had been strangled at birth.

I always have beauty around me, for I have but to go to my piano, and trace one of the million designs that have been made by my masters.

To make laws is a human instinct that arises as soon as food and shelter have been ensured, among all peoples, everywhere.

When I'm reading, wherever I am, I'm always somewhere else.

Birds sat on the telegraph wires that spanned the river as the black notes sit on a staff of music.

Nobody ever wrote a good book simply by collecting a number of accurate facts and valid ideas.

All our Western thought is founded on this repulsive pretence that pain is the proper price of any good thing.

It is astonishing how the human animal survives its misfortunes.

The day was so delightful that I wished one could live slowly as one can play music slowly.

Music is part of human life and partakes of the human tragedy. There is much more music in the world than is allowed to change into heard sounds and prove its point.

Any writer worth his salt knows that only a small proportion of literature does nore than partly compensate people for the damage they have suffered in learning to read.

Art is not a plaything, but a necessity, and its essence, form, is not a decorative adjustment, but a cup into which life can be poured and lifted to the lips and be tasted.

Unfortunately, all gatherings convened for the betterment of the human lot show a tendency to gas themselves, and not with laughing-gas either.

There is a point, and it is reached more easily than is supposed, where interference with freedom of the arts and literature becomes an attack on the life of society.

She saw she had fallen into the hands of one of those doctors who have strayed too far from apparent in the direction of the soul.

If it be ungentlemanly to kiss and tell, it is still further from gentlemanliness to pray and tell.

The redemptive power of divine grace no longer seemed credible, nor very respectable in the arbitrary performance that was claimed for it.