Vanity Quotes
It beareth the name of Vanity Fair, because the town where it is kept is 'lighter than vanity.'
Quotes to Explore
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It is the end. But of what? The end of France? No. The end of kings? Yes.
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To listen is an effort, and just to hear is no merit. A duck hears also.
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The world would be happier if men had the same capacity to be silent that they have to speak.
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Take me, I am the drug; take me, I am hallucinogenic.
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In my grandfather's lab, scientists did independent research, and peers reviewed and commented on its merits. Politics, he taught me, had no place in the scientific process.
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The entertainment business hasn't had a new idea in years.
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I feel completely fortunate to have this outlet for something I don't really feel like I have a choice in, to make music. I've got to make it.
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When I go from a role with heavy prosthetic makeup, which I've done quite a bit of as well, and then do a role where I'm not wearing any, I have to be conscious of toning everything down.
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I lull them into a false sense of security by watching me pitch... If overconfidence can cause the Roman Empire to fall, I ought to be able to get a ground ball.
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If you're in your early 20s and you're hanging out with a bunch of other people in their early 20s, nobody has a sense of the kinds of problems that real 'workers' run into every day. They're running into a completely different set of problems like 'What's the party going on right now that I should be going to?'
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I'm pretty casual, but I'm starting to obsess a little bit; like, one of my favorite things to do is to pair really feminine accessories with edgier outfits or vice versa.
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I don't want to be known as the granddaughter of the Hiltons. I want to be known as Paris.
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We just kept going down the road, we kept trying to make the next record, the right choices to get there.
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I'm a small and normal girl, and stories like mine no one likes to tell. Fortunately so, because I wouldn't like to play myself.
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I was filled with hate and anger. But during my trial, something decisive happened: Amnesty International adopted me as a prisoner of conscience, and it was an unbelievable feeling to know that there is someone fighting for you on the outside. Amnesty's 'soft' approach made me seriously consider alternatives to revenge.
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I don't think we spend enough time in reflection and introspection. We don't know who we are as individuals in this culture anymore.
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I try to tell a story that's good enough to win the right to integrate eternal themes into it. If it's poorly written or comes across as a sermon, then obviously you don't reach people, because they're aware that you're imposing something on a story that isn't innate to it.
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I don't at all like knowing what people say of me behind my back. It makes me far too conceited.
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I find it hard to be joyful on screen because I'm so tense.
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I remember being in buses, hotel lobbies and bars leading up to the 1994 World Cup talking with guys about how great it would be to have a legitimate league of our own, so getting on the plane in Italy to return and be part of the first year of MLS was one of the proudest moments of my life.
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So when you put the kick in and the other runners go past you, it's game over!
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I think you have a moral responsibility when you've been given far more than you need, to do wise things with it and give intelligently.
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Lots of things that go on in mainstream superhero comics are just stupid. They just show up on the page, and no one makes any mention of it.
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It beareth the name of Vanity Fair, because the town where it is kept is 'lighter than vanity.'
