Djuna Barnes Quotes

Sleep demands of us a guilty immunity. There is not one of us who, given an eternal incognito, a thumbprint nowhere set against our souls, would not commit rape, murder and all abominations.

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• I have a personal ambition to live my life honestly and honor the true love that I've had and also the people I've had around me.

  

  Lana Del Rey
  • Love
  • True
  • Honor

• The claim made by Team Obama that every dollar in stimulus translates into a dollar-and-a-half in growth is economic fiction. The costs of stimulus reduce future growth. No country has ever spent itself to prosperity. The price of stimulus has to be paid sometime.

  

  Karl Rove
  • Country
  • Future
  • Team

• It is imperative that we make consumers more aware of the long-term effects of their financial decisions, particularly in managing their credit card debt, so that they can avoid financial pitfalls that may lead to bankruptcy.

  

  Daniel Akaka
  • Long
  • May
  • Financial

• 'Fairness' can be an important quality for legislators to consider when they are passing public policies. But it is a subjective standard. And it has no place among judges on a court - whose duty is to dispassionately judge a law's constitutionality.

  

  Gary Bauer
  • Important
  • Law
  • Quality

• I prefer to connect with fans from the stage. Like, I don't have a Twitter page, or anything like that. So for me, that's what the show is about. For me - is a way to interact with fans; being up onstage and showing them, through music - which is all I really know - the best way to say thank you.

  

  Nate Ruess Fun.
  • Up
  • Music
  • Best

• The people must know before they can act, and there is no educator to compare with the press.

  

  Ida B. Wells
  • People
  • Know
  • Act

• When I was a teenager, reading for me was as normal, as unremarkable as eating or breathing. Reading gave flight to my imagination and strengthened my understanding of the world, the society I lived in, and myself. More importantly, reading was fun, a way to live more than one life as I immersed myself in each good book I read.

  

  Malorie Blackman
  • Life
  • World
  • Good

• When you have Candidate A saying the sky is blue, and Candidate B saying it's a cloudy day, I look outside and I see, well, it's a cloudy day. I should be able to tell my viewers, 'Candidate A is wrong, Candidate B is right,' and not have to say, 'Well, you decide.' Then it would be like I'm an idiot.

  

  Brown Campbell
  • Day
  • Sky
  • Blue

• My parents weren't keen on the giving up of school at the beginning to go into singing and dancing, but once they saw I was serious about it, they gave support. I was quite stubborn about my decision, and in the end, they realised it was for the best.

  

  Kate Bush
  • Up
  • School
  • Parents

• A game of soccer induces more than enjoyment, more than entertainment.

  

  Rabih Alameddine
  • Game
  • Soccer
  • Entertainment

• With four perfectionists in the band, we have a hard time reaching perfection.

  

  Adam Jones
  • Time
  • Band
  • Perfection

• My music is a personal thing, and I feel like if I talk too much about the songs, or if there's too much of my personal life out there, it ruins it.

  

  Washed Out
  • Life
  • Music
  • Too Much

• People only watch my shows for me, and those shows have remained evergreen long after the guests are forgotten.

  

  Barry Humphries
  • People
  • Shows
  • Forgotten

• I come with bad genetics, personally.

  

  J. B. Pritzker
  • Bad
  • Personally
  • Genetics

• I'm not out looking for a cause. They sort of find me or find my heart. But sure, there's always time for that. My big mouth can talk all the time.

  

  Natalie Maines
  • Time
  • Heart
  • Sure

• The thing about being an actor is that as we get older, there are more and more characters to explore and, in general, they get more complicated, so you get to bring all your crazy life experience to the table.

  

  Victoria Clark
  • Life
  • Experience
  • Crazy

• I do believe in soulmates and happy/successful marriages. No marriage can be happy 24x7 for 365 days. Both partners have to make the relationship work, is what I believe in.

  

  Kajol
  • Work
  • Believe
  • Happy

• In America, it is traditional to destroy the black body - it is heritage.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • America
  • Black
  • Body

• I'm Glad that the Bush years are behind us

  

  Jackson Browne

• The American Museum of Natural History is my son's absolute favorite place in the world! So we really, really, really love New York.

  

  Mark Teixeira
  • World
  • American
  • History

• Not only was I an 'X Factor' winner that got dropped by Syco - and when that happens, you're never heard of again - but everyone thought I was a clown.

  

  James Arthur

• A nap is not to be confused with sleeping. We sleep to recharge our bodies. We nap to care for our souls. When we nap, we are resting our eyes while our imaginations soar. Getting ready for the next round. Sorting, sifting, separating the profound from the profane, the possible from the improbable. Rehearsing our acceptance speech for the Nobel Prize, our surprise on receiving the MacArthur genius award. This requires a prone position. If we're lucky, we might drift off, but we won't drift far. Just far enough to ransom our creativity from chaos.

  

  Sarah Ban Breathnach
  • Soul
  • Sleep
  • Imagination

• When you are truly you and share who you are with the world and be confident in who you are, it doesn't matter what size you are. It doesn't matter what your different body parts look like.

  

  Amy Purdy
  • World
  • Different

• Sleep demands of us a guilty immunity. There is not one of us who, given an eternal incognito, a thumbprint nowhere set against our souls, would not commit rape, murder and all abominations.

  

  Djuna Barnes
  • Sleep
  • Guilty