Edna St. Vincent Millay Quotes
Parrots, tortoises and redwoods live a longer life than men do; Men a longer life than dogs do; Dogs a longer life than love does.Edna St. Vincent Millay
Quotes to Explore
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It's interesting that one of the definitions of the word 'human' is 'sympathetic.' More and more people are beginning to show that they understand why that is important.
Ingrid Newkirk -
It's expected of novels that they should explain the world and create the illusion that things are ultimately logical and coherent. But that's not what I see around me. Often, events remain mysterious and unresolved, and our emotions reach no catharsis.
Damon Galgut -
I don't fault my former law firm for running their business like a business or expecting their new hire to be worth the obscene rate she was billed out at, but fun it was not.
Rachel Sklar -
Unfortunately, there is still much to mine in this world and explore creatively.
Taylor Sheridan -
I really found this campaign odious. I couldn't get up for it. The quality of the candidates and the campaign, I just found the whole thing second-rate. I didn't know how to explain to my granddaughter that I was spending my dotage writing about Al Gore and George W. Bush.
Jack Germond -
Comedy can be harder because if you aren't making the audience laugh, they're going to turn on you quicker. They'll go along with mediocre drama more than they'll go along with mediocre comedy.
Haley Joel Osment
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Sometimes, especially when it's cold, I get dry skin, so I scratch a lot. I scratch my arms incessantly.
Zac Efron -
Approaching people for work has not worked for me. People who came to me with work has worked.
Randeep Hooda -
I'm a machine man, and I head a machine.
Harry Bridges -
Wars begin in the minds of men, and in those minds, love and compassion would have built the defenses of peace.
U Thant -
Being married to a psychologist, I realize that I learn more from imperfections.
Patricia MacLachlan -
A lot of people don't like me.
Paris Jackson
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Being an actress can be a little like being a girl in the '50s: You're stuck waiting by the phone, hoping that the boy you like will call.
Zooey Deschanel -
I love Dr. Hauschka's blue mascara. It's not so blue that it's like, 'What's wrong with you?' It's more like a secret that you're wearing it.
Lake Bell -
I don't know if I'd say I feel green, but I'm getting to know myself as an actor now in a way that I never did as a kid.
Gaby Hoffmann -
The air of ideas is the only air worth breathing.
Edith Wharton -
During my teenage years as an Islamist recruiter, I moved to live in self-contained communities in the London boroughs of Newham and Tower Hamlets.
Maajid Nawaz -
It's the good girls who keep diaries; the bad girls never have the time.
Tallulah Bankhead
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There's only one person in this race who will be there, who's always been there for you, and that's Hillary Clinton's life story.
Joe Biden -
Call me a cockeyed pessimist, but I'm having trouble finding any good news in the trashing of Harriet Miers.
Ellen Goodman -
My problem with the wedding industry started when I studied in college and liked to have the television on in the background, and 'A Wedding Story' on TLC always came on, and I'd get irritated that the story of two people making a lifelong commitment to each other could be encapsulated in a half-hour show about the party they throw.
Jessica Valenti -
I actually grew up in the City of Pasadena.
Aja Brown -
Emotions are contagious. We've all known it experientially. You know after you have a really fun coffee with a friend, you feel good. When you have a rude clerk in a store, you walk away feeling bad.
Daniel Goleman -
Parrots, tortoises and redwoods live a longer life than men do; Men a longer life than dogs do; Dogs a longer life than love does.
Edna St. Vincent Millay