Djuna Barnes Quotes

There is always more surface to a shattered object than a whole.

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• I always intended the title, 'WARRIOR,' to be about spiritual warfare and warrior lives outside of the cage.

  

  Gavin O'Connor
  • Always
  • Spiritual
  • Warrior

• If you're going on a plane journey, you're more likely to take one of my stories than 'Finnegan's Wake.'

  

  Maeve Binchy
  • You
  • Journey
  • Take

• Recent studies have shown that our creativity is increased by 60% when we're walking. I encourage my workshop participants to write at their desks but think on their feet.

  

  Kate Klise
  • Walking
  • Creativity
  • Feet

• Never forget that you only have one opportunity to make a first impression - with investors, with customers, with PR, and with marketing.

  

  Natalie Massenet
  • Opportunity
  • Marketing
  • Never Forget

• Politicians are trying to attract people to issues.

  

  Nancy Pelosi
  • People
  • Trying
  • Politicians

• Most inspiration still comes from bicycling around San Francisco. This city never fails to inspire me. It is one of the most vibrant cities - especially visually - with a constant influx of young energy arriving daily. I love it.

  

  Barry McGee
  • Energy
  • City
  • Inspiration

• If the word has the potency to revive and make us free, it has also the power to blind, imprison, and destroy.

  

  Ralph Ellison
  • Power
  • Free
  • Blind

• I was ever of the opinion, that the honest man who married and brought up a large family, did more service than he who continued single, and only talked of population.

  

  Oliver Goldsmith
  • Up
  • Family
  • Man

• Contemporary thinkers would say that man is continuously transcending himself.

  

  Gabriel Marcel
  • Man
  • Say
  • Contemporary

• I'm trying to convey to my audience that you really can't judge a book by its cover, and there's more to the universe than you can see with your eyes.

  

  Adam Lambert
  • Trying
  • Book
  • Eyes

• My first appearance as a guest on The Tonight Show was in '81.

  

  Garry Shandling
  • First
  • Show
  • Appearance

• I have striven not to laugh at human actions, not to weep at them, nor to hate them, but to understand them.

  

  Baruch Spinoza
  • Hate
  • Understand
  • Laugh

• I do hear from people at my exhibition about seeing these things made from this toy from their childhood, and it brings them back. They'll go and buy a set of Lego from the gift shop because of that nostalgia and seeing it at the art exhibition.

  

  Nathan Sawaya
  • People
  • Art
  • Childhood

• I will carry on the torch of reviving Japan that the Democratic Party received from the people.

  

  Naoto Kan
  • People
  • Party
  • Carry

• I don't consider 'American Rose' to be a biography so much as a microcosm of 20th-century America, told through Gypsy's tumultuous life - it's 'Horatio Alger meets Tim Burton.'

  

  Karen Abbott
  • Life
  • American
  • America

• To die is but to leave off dying and do the thing once for all.

  

  Samuel Butler
  • Die
  • Dying
  • Leave

• I don't preach or try to impress my views upon people.

  

  Raine Maida
  • People
  • Try
  • Impress

• I'm always just surprised when someone writes something about me.

  

  Lana Del Rey
  • Me
  • Always
  • Someone

• Everything flows and nothing abides; everything gives way and nothing stays fixed... Cool things become warm, the warm grows cool; the moist dries, the parched becomes moist... It is in changing that things find repose.

  

  Heraclitus
  • Things
  • Changing
  • Abides

• Wherever there is a human being, there is an opportunity for a kindness.

  

  Lucius Annaeus Seneca
  • Opportunity
  • Kindness

• I picked up an issue of Cosmopolitan the other day that had tips for job interviews, because I was like, 'I need to get better at interviews.' The article was basically about how to get someone not to hate you in 20 minutes. Every single thing they told you not to do, I was like, 'I do that every day.'

  

  Jennifer Lawrence
  • Up
  • Job
  • Hate

• I want to fight the best guy. I always want to fight the best guy.

  

  Nate Diaz
  • Guy
  • Want
  • Best

• I love Ben Affleck. I think he will be a great Batman. Ben can bring the humanity to all his parts. He can play the good guy, the bad guy, but behind that grin he's got, there is always that humanity.

  

  Lynda Carter
  • Good
  • Great
  • Bad

• There is always more surface to a shattered object than a whole.

  

  Djuna Barnes