Ella Maillart Quotes

The sooner we learn to be jointly responsible, the easier the sailing will be.

Ella Maillart

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• When I first lived in a model apartment... It was two bunk beds to a room, and the bathroom was constantly in use. I was bringing in Lucky Charms cereal, and one day an agent put a stop to that. She said, 'You're making all the girls fat.' They took it off our grocery order. That was the most dramatic thing that happened.

  

  Cameron Russell
  • She
  • Stop
  • Day

• I enjoy stand-up because it has the biggest reward: instant gratification. You can hear the people laughing.

  

  Wanda Sykes
  • People
  • Up
  • Enjoy

• I love writing. I feel ridiculously lucky that this is what I get to do all day.

  

  Tana French
  • Writing
  • Love
  • Day

• I am my own sanctuary and I can be reborn as many times as I choose throughout my life.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • Life
  • Reborn
  • Sanctuary

• There is a valid nationwide sentiment of concern over public pensions, and poor funding ratios are viewed negatively by financial markets.

  

  Walker Stapleton
  • Financial
  • Poor
  • Public

• I have two incredible sisters who have very high-powered jobs and kids and, you know, both have their master's; one runs triathlons all the time.

  

  Caitriona Balfe
  • Time
  • Kids
  • High

• Gay people - generally speaking - have a responsibility to our own community and to future generations of gay people to come out, if and when we feel that we can.

  

  Rachel Maddow
  • People
  • Future
  • Community

• Use a corrector to do all the heavy lifting under the eyes, not concealer. I spent years re-applying and layering concealer and Touche Eclat under there, when what I really needed was a good, peachy-toned corrector.

  

  Zoe Foster Blake
  • Good
  • Eyes
  • Years

• I hope to start enjoying flirting again when I'm 70, like my mother did.

  

  Felicity Kendal
  • Mother
  • Hope
  • Start

• Yeah, I can understand that. All the splendor of the Taj Mahal, without the inconvenience and expense of traveling to India.

  

  Henry Saint Clair Fredericks

• I'm ridiculous to feel ridiculous when I'm not. You must  be laughing at me for feeling you are laughing at me  if you are not laughing at me.

  

  R. D. Laing
  • Feeling

• I used to love Danish. My father used to make a Boston cream pie. You never see that anymore.

  

  Christopher Walken
  • Father

• Never let go of that fiery sadness called desire.

  

  Patti Smith
  • Desire

• If you know the mother's genome and the father's genome, and you see that the children have some genes that neither parent has, then you know that difference is either a mutation or a processing error.

  

  Leroy Hood
  • Children
  • Mother
  • Father

• If you find someone you love in your life, then hang on to that love.

  

  Princess Diana
  • Life

• Back in the day, fans wrote letters to groups - you'd get them, although it could take a while. Now, artists can go online and there's discussions about what you should and shouldn't be doing. The minute you announce that you're recording an album, thousands of people are telling you what that album should be.

  

  Geddy Lee Weinrib Rush
  • People

• An idealist is ahead of his time only in the sense that he is articulate. The same is true of a nation. For even primitive people, even effete races have a message for those above or below them. The heritage of the Ideal, however small can not be exhausted.

  

  Ameen Rihani
  • People
  • Time
  • True

• One of those quiet types who logs a lot of time in the bedlam of her head, I sometimes need to be startled awake to the fact that the outside world still exists.

  

  Amy Gerstler
  • Time
  • World

• You saw Britain back in the early days of sailing ships. They were the sea power, the controlled the seas and they had colonies all over the world and then you can look at history and watch the way that their empire kind of crumbled. I certainly don't want that to happen to the United States in space technology.

  

  Leroy Chiao
  • World
  • Power
  • History

• If we would regain our freedom, we must shake off the burden of sensation, no longer react to the world by our senses, break our bonds. For all sensation is a bond, pleasure as much as pain, joy as much as misery. The only free mind is the one that, pure of all intimacy with beings or objects, plies its own vacuity.

  

  Emil Cioran
  • World
  • Mind
  • Free

• There's always going to be the market for people who are known to have led wild and crazy lives.

  

  Dave Itzkoff
  • People
  • Crazy

• Despite what I said about staying the way we were, I changed. I, who have always believed in speaking my mind and made it my mission to uncover the truth, have found myself keeping secrets. Sometimes life is more complicated than the simple rules we make for it.

  

  Elizabeth Chandler
  • Life
  • Mind
  • Simple

• The sooner we learn to be jointly responsible, the easier the sailing will be.

  

  Ella Maillart
  • Sailing