Ernest Hemingway Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
I came up from growing up with a lot of Catholic guilt, a lot of punk rock, hipster guilt in the later years where I think people have thrown a lot of things on me. Where I always felt like I'm not supposed to tell the horn section what to play or I don't want to come off egotistical.
Jack White The White Stripes -
Like life, peace begins with women. We are the first to forge lines of alliance and collaboration across conflict divides.
Zainab Salbi -
Almost all the early Christian Fathers were opposed to the death penalty, even though it was of course standard practice across the ancient world.
N. T. Wright -
I love being a mum, but it's much more intensive work than being an actress - going to work feels like you've got a day off. Not that I want a day off from being a mum; it's just perhaps I had this impression before that mums don't work. But they work more than anyone.
Natalie Portman -
Lesser artists borrow, great artists steal.
Igor Stravinsky -
If you have multiples of anything, you have the possibility of repetition. Repetition creates pattern and also unity. Put anyone in a room with a pile of similar objects and say, 'I want a pattern by 3 P.M. or no dinner.' Anyone would come up with a design. It is easy, fun and available to anybody. Most people just don't have the nerve.
Dan Phillips
-
That's my opportunity to hide behind that old lady and say what I want to say.
Vicki Lawrence -
It requires wisdom to understand wisdom: the music is nothing if the audience is deaf.
Walter Lippmann -
The New Deal's enmity for that system of free and competitive private enterprise which we call capitalism was fundamental.
Garet Garrett -
Historically, the notes of scale systems anywhere have been based on these pure harmonics.
Lara St. John -
I can get a black eye, a bloody nose. I can have a bad day in the gym. At the end of the day, I don't have a bad payday, and I don't have a bad night under the lights... I get bumps, bruises... but I don't have a bad night.
Floyd Mayweather, Jr. -
I like the fact that glass ceilings are breaking all over.
Nancy Gibbs
-
I'm not afraid to admit that I'm a relatively slow reader.
Kate Winslet -
Being a professional cricketer, you have to adapt to the conditions quickly. It takes time to get rhythm when you are constantly traveling from one country to another.
Harbhajan Singh -
We have fought for social justice. We have fought for economic justice. We have fought for environmental justice. We have fought for criminal justice. Now we must add a new fight - the fight for electoral justice.
Barbara Boxer -
My husband and I vowed that after we married and settled down, we would become foster parents - a vow we kept and one that has enriched our lives greatly.
Vanessa Diffenbaugh -
Every serious nuclear accident involves operator error, so you want to eliminate the operator altogether.
Nathan Myhrvold -
When I was in the hospital, I was very suicidal in a kind of blind way, I was starving to death and just 'cause I didn't want to turn out like my family showed me, you know, that's all I ever saw of people, was my own family. I wasn't allowed to associate with anyone. Oh, God. So I didn't want to live.
Edie Sedgwick
-
During one period while I was in solitary, I memorized the names of all 335 of the men who were then prisoners of war in North Vietnam. I can still remember them.
John McCain -
Yoga means union, in all its significances and dimensions.
Indra Devi -
I'm an omniviorous reader, but I don't read what could overlap with my own work. It's like tuning a radio frequency - it's much harder to pick up if there's something else there.
John Lanchester -
Obviously, with creating music you are solely responsible for the creation of it.
Justin Timberlake NSYNC -
Nature's never quite Sure she hasn't erred In her vague design....
Robert Frost -
Never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a crime.
Ernest Hemingway