#belong

If it is indeed impossible - or at least very difficult - to inhabit the consciousness of an animal, then in writing about animals there is a temptation to project upon them feelings and thoughts that may belong only to our own human mind and heart. ↗

— J. M. Coetzee

#animal #belong #consciousness #difficult #feelings

In its conception the literature prize belongs to days when a writer could still be thought of as, by virtue of his or her occupation, a sage, someone with no institutional affiliations who could offer an authoritative word on our times as well as on our moral life. ↗

— J. M. Coetzee

#authoritative #belongs #conception #could #days

I belong to quite a lot of learned societies. We collect firearms and discuss them at dinners and clubs and things. ↗

— Michael Gambon

#clubs #collect #dinners #discuss #firearms

Once the curtain is raised, the actor is ceases to belong to himself. He belongs to his character, to his author, to his public. He must do the impossible to identify himself with the first, not to betray the second, and not to disappoint the third. ↗

— Sarah Bernhardt

#author #belong #belongs #betray #ceases

People shouldn't expect the mass media to do investigative stories. That job belongs to the 'fringe' media. ↗

— Ted Koppel

#expect #fringe #investigative #job #mass

As long as a film stays unmade, the book is entirely yours, it belongs to the writer. As soon as you make it into a film, suddenly more people see it than have ever read the book. ↗

— Iain Banks

#book #entirely #ever #film #into

I've always liked being relatively obscure. I feel that's where I belong, that's where my work belongs. ↗

— Don DeLillo

#being #belong #belongs #feel #i

Polls are frequently taken to try to tease out or determine likely directions and trends, but once taken, they belong to the past, requiring that new polls be taken. ↗

— Alan Dundes

#determine #directions #frequently #likely #new

What we do belongs to what we are; and what we are is what becomes of us. ↗

— Henry Van Dyke

#belongs #us

Though the sex to which I belong is considered weak you will nevertheless find me a rock that bends to no wind. ↗

— Elizabeth I

#bends #considered #find #i #me