Jean Stafford Quotes
For me, there is nothing worse than the knowledge that my life holds nothing for me but being a writer.Jean Stafford
Quotes to Explore
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Violin playing is a physical art with great traditions behind it.
Vanessa Mae -
I grew up with injustice and could do nothing about it. But once in America, I had freedom of choice.
Zainab Salbi -
People that are orthodox when they are young are in danger of being middle-aged all their lives.
Walter Lippmann -
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.
Jacob Bronowski -
Mel will always be Mad Max, and me, I will always be a Number.
Patrick McGoohan -
It may be that apartheid brings such stupendous economic advantages to countries that they would sooner have apartheid than permit its destruction.
Oliver Tambo
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Acting is exciting. It is different every time you do it.
Adam Lamberg -
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.
Halsey -
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.
Dan Blocker -
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!
Lake Bell -
Eurasia is home to most of the world's politically assertive and dynamic states.
Zbigniew Brzezinski -
But acting just sort of happened and I found that I loved it. It was such a challenge.
Rachael Leigh Cook
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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.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. -
The interweb's got a weird vibe.
Watkin Tudor Jones -
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.
Marc Almond Soft Cell -
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.
Warren Beatty -
I wish - I wish the peace and good for the Syrian citizen and the Syrian regime.
Najib Mikati -
The airheads of Congress will keep their own plush healthcare plan - it's the rest of us guinea pigs who will be thrown to the wolves.
Camille Paglia
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The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.
Victor Hugo -
I think you can do a lot, like describing people with their physical characteristics, things like that, but to me, I've always found it to be a much more informative question to ask somebody what they read.
Gabrielle Zevin -
He sido para mí, discípulo y maestro. Y he sido un buen discípulo, pero un mal maestro.
Antonio Porchia -
For those of us who have a ground of knowledge which we cannot transmit to outsiders, it is perhaps more profitable to act fearlessly than to argue.
Olive Schreiner -
For me, there is nothing worse than the knowledge that my life holds nothing for me but being a writer.
Jean Stafford