Edmund Wilson Quotes

His style has the desperate jauntiness of an orchestra fiddling away for dear life on a sinking ship.

Edmund Wilson

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• The tragedy of all of this is that it happened to me and it shouldn't have happened. It ruined my life and my career. That's the tragedy of this.

  

  Rafael Palmeiro
  • Life
  • Career
  • Me

• I realize that things happen for a reason.

  

  Karl Malone
  • Reason
  • Happen
  • Realize

• In my opinion - in Georgia, there's a town called Lula. And Lula, Georgia, has the best peaches.

  

  Zac Brown Band
  • Best
  • Opinion
  • Georgia

• I grew up in Hemel Hempstead, Hertfordshire, and reading was a big part of my life - I'd get through several books a week.

  

  Talulah Riley
  • Life
  • Up
  • Reading

• I am going to change the world, and I'm talking to everybody in the possible world that I can get to that can help me to do that.

  

  Abby Wambach
  • World
  • Change
  • Possible

• I've always wanted to work with Warren Beatty.

  

  Quentin Tarantino
  • Work
  • Always
  • Wanted

• From my point of view, I'm a totally normal person! Really! I have a family. I have kids. I have a house... I don't have a dog.

  

  Vincent Cassel
  • Family
  • Kids
  • House

• When I'm dancing, I don't know where the confidence comes from, but I just pretend I'm someone else, I think, and then I go out and dance.

  

  Maisie Williams
  • Think
  • Confidence
  • Dance

• Each of our 900 shows so far was different - maybe that's what makes the fans come back to our gigs time and again. And that they're always part of the show. Phish concerts are a communal experience.

  

  Page McConnell
  • Time
  • Different
  • Experience

• My mother worked in factories, worked as a domestic, worked in a restaurant, always had a second job.

  

  Ed Bradley
  • Job
  • Mother
  • Mom

• The key, of course, is to stay away from the losing years.

  

  Vince McMahon
  • Years
  • Losing
  • Key

• But I think we need the international market.

  

  Zhang Yimou
  • Think
  • Need
  • I Think

• I don't believe that human beings are necessarily monogamous.

  

  K. D. Lang
  • Believe
  • Human
  • Human Beings

• There will not be a billion-shekel cut to education on my watch.

  

  Naftali Bennett
  • Education
  • Will
  • Watch

• But acting just sort of happened and I found that I loved it. It was such a challenge.

  

  Rachael Leigh Cook
  • Challenge
  • Acting
  • Loved

• I don't think it is so difficult to solve the problems between Cuba and the United States; it all depends on whether there is a dialogue, a discussion, or if the prejudices and hatred of people like the extremists and terrorists from the Cuban community, who try to impose their policies, prevail.

  

  Fidel Castro
  • People
  • Community
  • Problems

• Vegetarians in general don't like me.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Me
  • Like
  • General

• Unfortunately, 'chick flick' has become a term to describe most movies that I don't even like. They're these movies that, yes, have women in them but they really don't reflect who women are, and there's something kind of silly or shallow or gossipy about them.

  

  Carla Gugino
  • Women
  • Kind
  • Movies

• Some people, when they die, leave so much life behind that we wonder how they did it.

  

  Patti Davis
  • People
  • Life
  • Die

• I was very much a tomboy. I've always been rather outspoken, headstrong, and I'm pretty much that way to this day.

  

  Mary Badham
  • Pretty

• "Happy he that knows Thee, even if he knows nothing else," says St. Augustine. If we knew all the sciences and knew not how to love Jesus Christ, our knowledge shall profit us nothing to eternal life. But if we know how to love Jesus Christ, we shall know all things, and shall be happy for eternity.

  

  Alphonsus Liguori
  • Life
  • Happy
  • Knowledge

• A photograph can make you feel so many different things. When you look at war photographs of Vietnam, or something similar, it makes you feel anguish and sadness and pain. Then in other moments, when you look at Jackie Kennedy walking down Fifth Avenue, that makes you feel glory and richness.

  

  Mario Testino
  • Different
  • War
  • Pain

• I think that most of the children's writers live in the world that they've created, and their children are kind of phantoms that wander around the edge of it in the world, but actually the children's writers are the children.

  

  A. S. Byatt
  • World
  • Live
  • Children

• His style has the desperate jauntiness of an orchestra fiddling away for dear life on a sinking ship.

  

  Edmund Wilson
  • Life
  • Style
  • Ship