Natalie Clifford Barney Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
When I was 13, I had these episodes where I could just see the world without any words attached to it, without any associations. It was a little bit spooky. A lot of people might have even thought it was pathological. I thought it was interesting.
-
'Henry V' is a great deal more than almost any other hell-bent-for-armor movie that you've seen.
-
There's so many confusing messages that you're being sent about being pretty but not too pretty, smart but not too smart, ambitious but in a way that makes people comfortable. It's very hard to navigate.
-
Language is the most extraordinary invention in the history of humanity, the one which came before everything and which makes it possible to share everything.
-
In my situation, every time I write a sentence, I'm thinking not only of the people I ended up in college with but my siblings, my family, my school friends, the people from my neighborhood. I've come to realize that this is an advantage, really: it keeps you on your toes.
-
I'm a kind person; I don't have a really nihilist streak in me, but I respond to that kind of humour.
-
Mostly, I don't write overtly personal stuff.
-
If you're a large corporation, you can afford to pay the money to register patents, but if you're an individual like me, you can't.
-
One of the darkest evils of our world is surely the unteachable wildness of the Good.
-
One thing I noticed working in the Bronx is that leaders come in the craziest places. They don't always show up at community board meetings. Sometimes it's just the guys on the corner that the boys on the block respect.
-
That's really my goal now. I'm trying to be a positive role model to my kids and to just enjoy this ride, because it's hard. It's hard to enjoy it when you're in it.
-
Maybe it will be a great thing when the Baby Boomers finally die out. In real life, it's not a matter of the good guys or the bad guys. Rather, it's big numbers and small numbers that do the counting.
-
For me, what I really want to come out of it is to show people that I can hold together a movie, be the number one character and play someone who is twenty or twenty-one.
-
The history of Bitcoin trading is a bubble, a correction, consolidation, and another increase. It's happened four times, and it will happen again.
-
The best thing I did was to choose the right heroes.
-
I've always wanted to take up work that my heart is convinced about. And I shall continue to do so.
-
There was one very special scene at the end of the film. My character, Zhao Di, has been sick. She wakes up and her mother tells her that the man she loves has come back from the city and had spent the day by her bedside.
-
I always felt that anorexia was the form of breakdown most readily available to adolescent girls.
-
Virtue has its own reward, but no sale at the box office.
-
Buying a home today is a complex process, but that in no way excuses home buyers from their obligation for due diligence.
-
It's a wonderful machine that had done good things, and it's got a lot of good to do yet.
-
I have a hard time with people who say they write for children but they don't really like children. I love children. I love talking with them.
-
The Christianity which is shared is the Christianity which is convincing.
-
Novels are longer than life.
