Jean Stafford Quotes
For me, there is nothing worse than the knowledge that my life holds nothing for me but being a writer.
Quotes to Explore
-
Violin playing is a physical art with great traditions behind it.
-
I grew up with injustice and could do nothing about it. But once in America, I had freedom of choice.
-
People that are orthodox when they are young are in danger of being middle-aged all their lives.
-
You will die but the carbon will not; its career does not end with you. It will return to the soil, and there a plant may take it up again in time, sending it once more on a cycle of plant and animal life.
-
Mel will always be Mad Max, and me, I will always be a Number.
-
It may be that apartheid brings such stupendous economic advantages to countries that they would sooner have apartheid than permit its destruction.
-
Acting is exciting. It is different every time you do it.
-
I don't want to be 'Halsey: America's Sweetheart,' or 'Halsey: Bad Girl.' If you can sum up my career in a clickbait headline, I've done something wrong.
-
My daddy used to say that I was too big to ride and too little to hitch a wagon - no good for a damn thing.
-
While marriage is historically associated with dire obligation and clipped wings, I've found that it actually liberates you to take on adventure and achieve your dreams. I like to call my husband 'my person.' Find your 'person,' and you can do anything!
-
Eurasia is home to most of the world's politically assertive and dynamic states.
-
But acting just sort of happened and I found that I loved it. It was such a challenge.
-
I hate facts. I always say the chief end of man is to form general propositions - adding that no general proposition is worth a damn.
-
The interweb's got a weird vibe.
-
I think in the past I think I probably was a little too diverse, probably went from one spectrum to the complete opposite and confusing people.
-
And the success of the union movement, historically, has always been to benefit all working men and women - not just people who belong to the union.
-
I'm the sort of person that doesn't really have specific 'inspiration.' It probably comes more from my doubts and my desires.
-
I wish - I wish the peace and good for the Syrian citizen and the Syrian regime.
-
Last week I was just someone who had had a first novel published.
-
I have no doubt I was someone very interesting in a past life.
-
The reciprocal civility of authors is one of the most risible scenes in the farce of life.
-
Okay, here is the uplifting part: Your life isn't and has never been about you....about what you accomplish, how successful you are or are not, how much money you make, what sort of position you ascend to,...or how much good you do for others or the world at large. Your life, like mine, and like everyone else's has always been about one thing: love.
-
The music industry is really funny, when you have a hit record, everyone knows who are you, everyone wants to do duets with you, then if you have a miss, people suffer from amnesia.
-
For me, there is nothing worse than the knowledge that my life holds nothing for me but being a writer.
