Edith Sitwell Quotes
I'm not the man to baulk at a low smell,I’m not the man to insist on asphodel.This sounds like a He-fellow, don’t you think?It sounds like that. I belch, I bawl, I drink.Edith Sitwell
Quotes to Explore
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The life of an actor is very hard irrespective of the continent you are in. It is doubly hard when you are only eligible for minority roles.
Kabir Bedi -
You're going to see this 'Internet of things' start demanding network performance and making the networks much more aware of what is on top of them.
Hans Vestberg -
I am not sad, but I am melancholic. When you lose your mother at 20 and then your father soon after, melancholia is part of your life.
Patricia Kaas -
I grew up in a place where everybody was a storyteller, but nobody wrote. It was that kind of Celtic, storytelling tradition: everybody would have a story at the pub or at parties, even at the clubs and raves.
Irvine Welsh -
I didn't get my first pilot that I screen-tested for, and I really thought it was the end of the world. But it's fine, you know, you move on to something else.
Rachel McAdams -
I wish I could do 50 projects a year.
Zoe Foster Blake
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I argue in this paper that we are on the edge of change comparable to the rise of human life on Earth.
Vernor Vinge -
I don't want to be remembered as the girl who was shot. I want to be remembered as the girl who stood up.
Malala Yousafzai -
Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind.
Ralph Waldo Emerson -
BP had a lease to drill. They did not have a lease to pollute the Gulf of Mexico. They did not have a lease to blow oil into the environment. They did not have a lease to disperse the oil and try to hide the body. They don't have a lease to clean up.
Carl Safina -
Of course, the opposite of white privilege is not blackness, as many of us seemed to think then; the opposite of white privilege is working to dismantle that privilege. But my particular hip-hop generation proved to be very serious about figuring it all out and staying engaged.
Adam Mansbach -
Guantanamo will be closed no later than one year from now.
Barack Obama
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Eating is an agricultural act.
Wendell Berry -
In the early 1990s Muslims were engaged in more intergroup violence than were non-Muslims, and two-thirds to three-quarters of intercivilizational wars were between Muslims and non-Muslims. Islam's borders are bloody and so are its innards.
Samuel P. Huntington -
I think somebody should be able to do all my paintings for me.
Andy Warhol -
For in the last analysis it is human consciousness which is the subject matter of history.
Marc Bloch -
'Barack Obama being elected. I think about how… um… how my sons will grow up only knowing a black President. Wells with tears I can’t explain how that’s changed America. There’s an optimism now that wasn’t there for black people.'
Brandon Flowers The Killers -
Whereas with Sirk, everything is always filmed. No matter what the script, he's always a real director.
Jacques Rivette
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We feel bad from a team standpoint for Todd. He worked very hard this offseason. He was having a heck of a camp, and its a shame this happened.
Andy Reid -
Recreating the experience of, say, bereavement in my own head is pretty rough. I was used to switching off from emotions every day of my working life as a journalist, but in fiction, you have to feel it 100%, or else it's a flat experience for the reader.
Karen Traviss -
My hair's a pain in live performance. I'm always inhaling it: I almost choked to death a couple of times.
Darrell Lance Abbott -
Do you trust me? The question is usually asked before an admission that such trust is misplaced.
S. J. Watson -
I'm not the man to baulk at a low smell,I’m not the man to insist on asphodel.This sounds like a He-fellow, don’t you think?It sounds like that. I belch, I bawl, I drink.
Edith Sitwell