Nellie Melba Quotes

If you wish to understand me at all (and to write an autobiography is only to open a window into one's heart) you must understand first and foremost, that I am an Australian.

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• If you're in a dark place, you're there for a reason. And the only way to get through to those kids or to other people going through the same thing is really to meet them in that dark place and then slowly bring them to the light.

  

  Bebe Rexha
  • People
  • Kids
  • Light

• I didn't choose to write a military man as much as Vince Haven chose me.

  

  Rachel Gibson
  • Man
  • Me
  • Military

• When I told the people of Northern Ireland that I was an atheist, a woman in the audience stood up and said, 'Yes, but is it the God of the Catholics or the God of the Protestants in whom you don't believe?

  

  Quentin Crisp
  • People
  • Up
  • God

• The Nobel Prize has given me, for the first time in my life, the feeling that my literature could be appreciated on an international level.

  

  Naguib Mahfouz
  • Life
  • Time
  • Feeling

• There has to be so many other ways of approaching airline security than demeaning ourselves by giving up a lot of our dignities and our liberty to do this.

  

  Quico Canseco
  • Up
  • Giving
  • Liberty

• When Scorsese or Coppola cast celebrities in their work, it goes without question.

  

  Sam Taylor-Johnson
  • Work
  • Question
  • Cast

• I'm not a walking extra in a Chekhov play; I'm no Slavic gloom or Irish gloom.

  

  Orson Welles
  • Play
  • Walking
  • Irish

• Our goal is a title. With LeBron, we are in 'win now' mode.

  

  Dan Gilbert
  • Goal
  • Win
  • Now

• Beware of the company you keep. See that you associate with the right type of people.

  

  Dada Vaswani
  • People
  • You
  • Company

• Of course, in the United States, which at the time was a very young country, there were also class distinctions. They weren't as pronounced, but they quickly evolved as well.

  

  Iris Chang
  • Time
  • Country
  • Young

• Well, I think again, the worst part of it was just leading up to it, before we got on set, at least for me... dreading this idea that I was just going to suck and I really had strong feelings about that. I just didn't want to be that weak link.

  

  Tea Leoni
  • Think
  • Want
  • Strong

• Ultimately, taste is so niche and so personal.

  

  Dana Goodyear
  • Taste
  • Personal
  • Niche

• Money and good life had never been my goal.

  

  Kailash Kher
  • Life
  • Good
  • Money

• Feminism justified female 'victim power' by convincing the world that we lived in a sexist, male-dominated, and patriarchal world.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • World
  • Power
  • Lived

• The worst sorrows in life are not in its losses and misfortunes, but its fears.

  

  A. C. Benson
  • Life
  • Worst
  • Misfortunes

• I always enjoy impersonating my characters in the first-person singular.

  

  Orhan Pamuk
  • Always
  • Enjoy
  • First-Person

• A society that has more justice is a society that needs less charity.

  

  Ralph Nader
  • Society
  • Justice
  • Charity

• We build statues out of snow, and weep to see them melt.

  

  Walter Scott
  • See
  • Snow
  • Build

• The power structures in fashion used to be limited to western Europe and the States. That's changing.

  

  Imran Amed
  • Power
  • Fashion
  • Changing

• These days, newish art can be priced between $10,000 and $25,000. When I tell artists that a new painting by a newish artist should go for around $1,200, they look at me like I'm a flesh-eating virus.

  

  Jerry Saltz
  • Art
  • Painting

• Now the relation which, in the sphere of nature, being and semblance or sensation bear to one another in this antithesis, is the same as that which in ethics exists between good and pleasure or feeling.

  

  Friedrich Schleiermacher
  • Good
  • Nature
  • Feeling

• Ideally, writing ought to be like riding a bicycle: something you know how to do without having to think consciously about exactly what it is that you are doing.

  

  Brian Stableford
  • Writing

• I can't even imagine writing nonfiction by hand. I think if I didn't have a computer, I just couldn't do it. Maybe it's a brain-section issue.

  

  Jennifer Egan
  • Writing
  • Hand
  • Brain

• If you wish to understand me at all (and to write an autobiography is only to open a window into one's heart) you must understand first and foremost, that I am an Australian.

  

  Nellie Melba
  • Writing
  • Heart
  • Wish