Joan Didion Quotes
A place belongs forever to whoever claims it hardest, remembers it most obsessively, wrenches it from itself, shapes it, renders it, loves it so radically that he remakes it in his own image.
Joan Didion
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In the end, the market will decide which is the better performer: dirty coal-fired power or clean wind and solar. Market-based competition. That doesn't sound like communism to me.
Frances Beinecke
Somewhere, in some city in America, someone is wearing my clothes, and I'm happy with that.
Raf Simons
I'm really a director's actor. I rely heavily on a director.
Patricia Clarkson
My wife Martha used to call me Ol' Lemon Face because of my facial contortions when I play Lucille. I squeeze my eyes and open my mouth, raise my eyebrows, cock my head and God knows what else. I look like I'm in torture, when in truth, I'm in ecstasy. I don't do it for show. Every fiber of my being is tingling.
B. B. King
If you say John Smith is the greatest wrestler in Oklahoma history, now that's big.
Daniel Cormier
I hope when I'm dead I'll be considered an icon, though.
Lady Gaga
We were very fortunate that the carriers weren't in the harbor.
Barney Ross
I was always running off to the city, whether it was Philly or New York, going somewhere where there was something more for me.
Halsey
Unlike 'real relationships', 'virtual relationships' are easy to enter and to exit. They look smart and clean, feel easy to use, when compared with the heavy, slow-moving, messy real stuff.
Zygmunt Bauman
As a male writer, women are always what men pursue, and their world is always a mystery. So I always tried to present as many views as possible on women's worlds.
Gao Xingjian
All architecture has a public nature, I believe, so I would like to make a public space.
Tadao Ando
Perfection of planned layout is achieved only by institutions on the point of collapse.
C. Northcote Parkinson
The real and most pressing question raised by any social problem is: "How do I appear concerned and compassionate to all my friends, colleagues, and peers?
Anthony Daniels
She looked at him, and oh, the weariness to her, of the effort to understand another language, the weariness of hearing him, attending to him, making out who he was, as he stood there fair-bearded and alien, looking at her. She knew something of him, of his eyes. But she could not grasp him. She closed her eyes.
D. H. Lawrence
Meanwhile, little people like you and me, if our prayers are sometimes granted, beyond all hope and probability, had better not draw hasty conclusions to our own advantage. If we were stronger, we might be less tenderly treated. If we were braver, we might be sent, with far less help, to defend far more desperate posts in the great battle.
C. S. Lewis
I think Barack Obama is one of the most exciting politicians to come along in a long time.
Mark McKinnon
I'm not about to write my memoirs. Not for a long time.
John Major
A place belongs forever to whoever claims it hardest, remembers it most obsessively, wrenches it from itself, shapes it, renders it, loves it so radically that he remakes it in his own image.
Joan Didion
