H. L. Mencken Quotes
I was at the job of reading it for days and days, endlessly daunted and halted by its laborious dullness, its flatulent fatuity, its almost fabulous inconsequentiality. (On H. G. Wells' Joan and Peter) Ch. 2, 'The Late Mr. Wells'
H. L. Mencken
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I paint objects as I think them, not as I see them.
Pablo Picasso
I adore Bette Davis and Vivien Leigh, but more because they were good actresses. That's what makes me interested in them, that they didn't present themselves as idols; they were just doing their jobs.
Imelda Staunton
My original name was Juaquin, and my cousin couldn't pronounce my name right. So he'd just be saying 'Waka! Waka!' So when I was younger, I used to always laugh, then my man Gucci gave me the rest of the name.
Waka Flocka Flame
I think that Americans, they love comfort more than Europeans. Americans created the T-shirt, the sweat pants, and they create the best sporting shoes.
Carine Roitfeld
I think that role model is kind of a weird thing because obviously you are, but I try to make good choices and good decisions for myself for me to have a good life. If that inspires someone else, that is great, but I think you should do good for yourself and your own happiness.
Dakota Fanning
Intimate scenes on a movie set are just dry, bizarre things; people standing around.
Daniel Craig
But superstition, like belief, must die...
Philip Larkin
If you do well as an actor, a good director will pick up on it, and keep it in the film.
Famke Janssen
I get half a million just to show up at parties. My life is, like, really, really fun.
Paris Hilton
No single man can be taken as a model for a perfect figure, for no man lives on earth who is endowed with the whole of beauty.
Albrecht Durer
In Nagasaki, American planes did drop warning leaflets - but not till Aug. 10, a day after the city was bombed.
Lydia Millet
I was at the job of reading it for days and days, endlessly daunted and halted by its laborious dullness, its flatulent fatuity, its almost fabulous inconsequentiality. (On H. G. Wells' Joan and Peter) Ch. 2, 'The Late Mr. Wells'
H. L. Mencken