Djuna Barnes Quotes

Suffering for love is how I have learned practically everything I know, love of grandmother up and on.

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• I live in a 'sky island,' a unique mountain valley environment where half the animal species of North America can be found.

  

  Nancy Farmer
  • Live
  • America
  • Environment

• I think I need security.

  

  Zoe Sugg
  • Think
  • Need
  • Security

• I can play a bunch of instruments but drums? My brother's a drummer and I've always been jealous that he's such a good drummer. I always try to play but it's always kinda just bashing. I can keep time but no one really wants to hear me play drums.

  

  Nat Wolff
  • Time
  • Good
  • Brother

• I grew up playing basketball and baseball. I've always been active because my dad played professional football, so sports and working out have always been a part of my life.

  

  Zach LaVine
  • Life
  • Up
  • Dad

• It's very hard to put forth a film that's about love and the joy of love and for it not to be patronising and not make people nauseous or make them roll their eyes.

  

  Laura Linney
  • People
  • Love
  • Joy

• Persistence is to the character of man as carbon is to steel.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • Character
  • Man
  • Persistence

• Airplanes are interesting toys, but of no military value.

  

  Ferdinand Foch
  • Interesting
  • Value
  • Military

• I certainly feel sad about the alienation from my son.

  

  Harold Pinter
  • Son
  • Feel
  • Sad

• I live in New York. I don't really particularly want to move to LA.

  

  Famke Janssen
  • Live
  • Want
  • New York

• When I was a kid, I would make these incredibly bloody movies in my back yard. I was constantly making weird blood concoctions; Jell-O and milk was a good one. I was constantly ruining clothes and staining my parents' walls and stuff.

  

  Fran Kranz
  • Good
  • Parents
  • Weird

• I'm not spending every second thinking about the World Cup, but it's always in my mind when I make choices and decisions.

  

  Abby Wambach
  • World
  • Thinking
  • Mind

• Playing a character for four years, in people's minds, that's who you are.

  

  Samira Wiley
  • People
  • Character
  • Years

• Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths pure theatre.

  

  Gail Godwin
  • Good
  • Education
  • Theatre

• Writers have been in terrible situations and have yet managed to produce extraordinary work.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Work
  • Produce
  • Extraordinary

• If I manage to leave my bedroom and get to the gym, that makes me feel good about myself! For me, the most difficult part is getting out of bed, but once I'm out, I really enjoy playing sports.

  

  Barbara Palvin
  • Good
  • Myself
  • Sports

• Our country is in deep trouble. To talk and re-litigate in 1998, or even what Mitt Romney said or didn't say in 1994 or 2002, I don't think most people really care.

  

  Laura Ingraham
  • People
  • Country
  • Care

• Self-exploration is very painful, but unless you do that, you will never know who you are and who you want to be.

  

  Iris Apfel
  • Want
  • Know
  • Never

• You don't want to be first, right? You want to be second or third. You don't want to be - Facebook is not the first in social media. They're the third, right? Similarly, you know, if you look at Steve Jobs' history, he's never been first.

  

  Malcolm Gladwell
  • History
  • Media
  • Social Media

• Obamacare has made a mess of our health insurance and health care systems, and Washington politicians have failed to fix the problem.

  

  Matt Rosendale
  • Health
  • Insurance

• 'Vogue' remains while its fashion editors come and go.

  

  Azzedine Alaia
  • Fashion

• Every man thinks meanly of himself for not having been a soldier, or not having been at sea.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Sea
  • Soldier

• Happy Days, which we did for 11 years, we did with three cameras in front of a live audience. Very special. We had a party every Friday night. The boys, Ron, Henry, they grew up on that show.

  

  Marion Ross
  • Up
  • Live
  • Happy

• He didn't call his father and mother 'Father' and 'Mother' but Harold and Alberta. They were very up to date and advanced people. They were vegetarians, non-smokers and teetotalers, and wore a special kind of underclothes. In their house there was very little furniture and very few clothes on the beds and the windows were always open.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • People
  • Up
  • Mother

• Suffering for love is how I have learned practically everything I know, love of grandmother up and on.

  

  Djuna Barnes
  • Up
  • Suffering
  • Grandmother