Booth Tarkington Quotes

He had not yet learned that the only safe male rebuke to a scornful female is to stay away from her - especially if that is what she desires.

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• I like to wear shoes that are cool but also practical. The same goes for bags. Your bag is a big deal in New York. You can't just carry around a little clutch, because you don't have a car or anywhere to stash things during the day, so you need to carry your whole life with you. That's why I like big, chunky bags with lots of compartments.

  

  Zoe Kravitz
  • Life
  • Why
  • Day

• People constantly describe me as a formalist or even a minimalist, but I'm not really bothered with the rules of painting or the history of painting. My approach is that everything is mine. I take what I can use from wherever, and then I forget where I've taken it from. But there is no point me making anything that looks like anyone else's.

  

  Gary Hume
  • People
  • History
  • Taken

• Iraq did not spontaneously opt for disarmament. They did it as part of a ceasefire, so they were forced to do it, otherwise the war might have gone on. So the motivation has been very different.

  

  Hans Blix
  • Different
  • War
  • motivation

• I think comedy is one of the hardest things to do.

  

  Faith Ford
  • Think
  • Comedy
  • Things

• I don't want to set the world up for surprises.

  

  Barry Diller
  • Up
  • World
  • Want

• Carrie-Anne Moss is awesome. I am just going to put that out there.

  

  Yvonne Strahovski
  • Awesome
  • Moss

• Only legislative, judicial, and executive action can completely guarantee the victory of the free world.

  

  Adam Clayton Powell, Jr.
  • World
  • Free
  • Action

• But I think mainly, you know, just up in the East Coast, it's where it all originated. You know, Philadelphia. It goes back to the beginning. So, you know, fans have a lot of history, and they love their teams up here.

  

  Rafael Palmeiro
  • History
  • Think
  • Know

• The philosophy of life is this: Life is not a struggle, not a tension... Life is bliss. It is eternal wisdom, eternal existence.

  

  Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
  • Life
  • Wisdom
  • Struggle

• The Holocaust movie is almost a genre in itself these days.

  

  Viggo Mortensen
  • Movie
  • Days
  • Holocaust

• Gloves make you so much more delicate.

  

  Karine Vanasse
  • You
  • More
  • Gloves

• I'm not in the business of politics.

  

  Abby Wambach
  • Business
  • Politics

• The Pledge of Allegiance reflects the truth that faith in God has played a significant role in America since the days of the founding of our country.

  

  Randy Neugebauer
  • God
  • Country
  • Truth

• I've realized that I'm more important than food is. I love a big slice of pizza, but I love myself more. Being thin is about changing the way you think about yourself. It's about saying that you deserve to be healthy.

  

  Valerie Bertinelli
  • Important
  • Way
  • Healthy

• Oil wells never really run dry. A big company will drain maybe 40% of a field. Pulling out the rest of the oil, which requires an outlay of incrementally more cash per barrel, often proves uneconomical for big companies with big overheads.

  

  Tahl Raz
  • Rest
  • Company
  • Oil

• If I were to leave the U.S., I'd live in England. But I'd never leave the U.S. I own a 400-acre farm in Macon, Georgia. I raise cattle and hogs. I own horses, too. I love horses as much as singing. I like to hunt on horseback.

  

  Otis Redding
  • Love
  • Like
  • Leave

• There were times when chemo would eat my body, but I told myself that I have the strength and courage to win and come out stronger.

  

  Yuvraj Singh
  • Myself
  • Courage
  • Strength

• Secular writers can tell a story about the physical, the emotional, and the intellectual parts of a character. But no matter how well they tell the story, they miss a facet that is innately part of all of us - the spiritual.

  

  Karen Kingsbury
  • Character
  • Spiritual
  • Emotional

• Moral: Don't try to Account for Anything.

  

  George Ade
  • Moral

• It's written into the Constitution that you're allowed to pursue happiness. In England it would be considered a frivolous objective.

  

  Quentin Crisp

• She found more gratification in teaching one willing student than a dozen resentful ones.

  

  Octavia E. Butler
  • She

• [On Princess Anne:] Such an active, outdoorsy lass. She loves nature in spite of what it did to her.

  

  Bette Midler
  • She
  • Nature
  • Princess

• I'd be more frightened by not using whatever abilities I'd been given. I'd be more frightened by procrastination and laziness.

  

  Denzel Washington
  • Procrastination

• He had not yet learned that the only safe male rebuke to a scornful female is to stay away from her - especially if that is what she desires.

  

  Booth Tarkington
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