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
When people ask me what I think is my best work, it's the bus. There're lots of books, but there's only one bus.
Ken Kesey
Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.
Mahatma Gandhi
I felt naked. I felt as perhaps a bird may feel in the clear air knowing the hawk wings above and will swoop. I began to feel the need of fellowship. I wanted to question, wanted to speak, wanted to relate my experience. What is this spirit in man that urges him forever to depart from happiness, to toil and to place himself in danger?
H. G. Wells
Dusk is just an illusion because the sun is either above the horizon or below it. And that means that day and night are linked in a way that few things are there cannot be one without the other yet they cannot exist at the same time. How would it feel I remember wondering to be always together yet forever apart?
Nicholas Sparks
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
