Etel Adnan Quotes

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• And in the Second World War, you didn't just read about it in the newspapers because you weren't allowed to read it in the newspapers. It was all censored, you know? So nobody knew what we were doing.

  

  Patrick Macnee
  • World
  • War
  • Doing

• The thing about tennis is if you stay off for two weeks, or just for three days, you can lose your rhythm quickly. So it's just a question of constant diligence and vigilance.

  

  Venus Williams
  • Question
  • Tennis
  • Lose

• Something that I've struggled with for awhile is looking at our country voting on sound bites, and to me, character is really important.

  

  Taya Kyle
  • Important
  • Country
  • Character

• People say that about me, that I apparently buy houses near every boy I like - that's a thing that I apparently do. If I like you I will apparently buy up the real-estate market just to freak you out so you leave me.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • People
  • Up
  • Real

• I worked for Oprah Winfrey for two years right out of college in 2004. I was a director's assistant on the film 'Their Eyes Were Watching God,' which Oprah produced.

  

  Barry Jenkins
  • God
  • College
  • Eyes

• One of the best parts of being a writer means that researching all kinds of cool stuff actually counts as work!

  

  Gail Z. Martin
  • Work
  • Best
  • Cool

• It's important to be able to keep things fresh, no matter what age you are, or how many years you've been in the industry.

  

  Samantha Barks
  • Important
  • Age
  • Matter

• I love finding new creative partnerships but then continuing the partnerships I'm already in.

  

  Damon Lindelof
  • Love
  • Creative
  • Partnerships

• I think it's good if areas get upgraded and gentrified, as long as the people who always lived there can stay. But they get pushed out to some place.

  

  Zaha Hadid
  • People
  • Good
  • Long

• There's a consequence for everything, and that goes back to the Bible for me.

  

  Taya Kyle
  • Me
  • Bible
  • Everything

• I'm doing a program with NAFME for music and education in schools, and for a week, we will be getting in a bus and traveling across the United States. We're starting at Disney World and ending at the Grand OIe Opry. We will be performing at different schools, and I wrote a song for the program called 'Always Sing.'

  

  RaeLynn
  • World
  • Music
  • Different

• Concentration camps were entirely a matter for the police and had nothing to do with the administration.

  

  Hans Frank
  • Matter
  • Police
  • Nothing

• I've actually enjoyed pitching on the road in the postseason. You go out there, and you're getting booed, and it's fun to try to silence the crowd.

  

  Jacob deGrom
  • Fun
  • Road
  • Silence

• Part of my affinity with urban music comes from being on 'Kids Incorporated,' 'cos we used to sit around and listen to Chaka Khan and Prince, and I got influenced by all that. Then gangsta rap got started, and I was infatuated with that - maybe that's why I'm fascinated by guns.

  

  Fergie The Black Eyed Peas
  • Music
  • Rap
  • Gangsta

• The patient's autonomy always, always should be respected, even if it is absolutely contrary - the decision is contrary to best medical advice and what the physician wants.

  

  Jack Kevorkian
  • Best
  • Decision
  • Advice

• I'm OK: I don't need money.

  

  Manolo Blahnik
  • Money
  • Need
  • OK

• Nuclear energy is the scientific achievement of the Iranian nation.

  

  Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
  • Energy
  • Achievement
  • Nation

• A man, to use an old-fashioned phrase, of some twenty-eight summers, he gave the impression at the moment of having experienced at least that number of very hard winters.

  

  P. G. Wodehouse

• You must, said Benito Mussolini, accept “a life in which the individual, through the denial of himself, through the sacrifice of his own private interests . . . realizes that completely spiritual existence in which his value as a man lies.

  

  Yaron Brook
  • Individual

• Woodrell's storytelling is as melodic, jangly and energetic as a good banjo riff.... Sammy Barlach's story is a tragedy, but the telling of it is a pleasure.

  

  Valerie Sayers
  • Good
  • Stories
  • Tragedy

• After the 1960s and '70s, there were real doubts about whether a mortal man could handle the country's highest office. It had destroyed Johnson, corrupted Nixon, and overwhelmed Ford and Carter.

  

  Nancy Gibbs
  • Country
  • Real
  • Man

• What the poet has in mind . . . is that poetic value is an intrinsic value. It is not the value of knowledge. It is not the value of faith. It is the value of imagination. The poet tries to exemplify it, in part as I have tried to exemplify it here, by identifying it with an imaginative activity that diffuses itself throughout our lives.

  

  Wallace Stevens
  • Mind
  • Faith
  • Knowledge

• “Liberty isn't bestowed; it's achieved. It is not a gift; it's a conquest. It does not abide; it must be preserved.”

  

  Albert E. Bowen
  • Liberty
  • Conquest
  • Preserved

• I didn't want to read French or write it; it was like a boycott, a rejection.

  Etel Adnan
  • Read
  • Rejection
  • French