Heather O'Neill Quotes

I have an artistic temperament, which is a really tragic thing.

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• I really am an open book. I don't keep anything in at all, which is good and bad.

  

  Kaley Cuoco
  • Good
  • Book
  • Bad

• This is the other thing: we make the cost of raising kids higher than it has to be just because we feel they need all this stuff, like gadgets, certain schools, and activities that are nice but aren't really necessary.

  

  Patricia Heaton
  • Kids
  • Nice
  • Need

• When I first started, I just wanted to work. I wouldn't necessarily do anything, but I'd pretty much almost do anything at the very beginning.

  

  Aaron Paul
  • Work
  • Pretty
  • Beginning

• After shows my face feels dirty with makeup and sweat, especially in the smaller venues, so it feels good to get back to the bus and smooth it away. Sometimes you need something alcohol-based, especially on tour when you don't always get a chance to keep washing your face all the time.

  

  Ellie Goulding
  • Time
  • Good
  • Chance

• I don't know if I'm really the fastest. It doesn't matter.

  

  Garry Winogrand
  • Knows
  • Matter
  • Ifs

• Every child has to raise itself.

  

  Otto Frank
  • Child

• I burned my candle at both ends, And now have neither foes nor friends.

  

  Samuel Hoffenstein
  • Friends
  • Candle
  • Foes

• Be easy on yourself. Have fun. Only hang around people that are positive and make you feel good. Anybody who doesn't make you feel good, kick them to the curb. And the earlier you start in your life the better. The minute anybody makes you feel weird and non-included or not supported, you know, either beat it or tell them to beat it.

  

  Amy Poehler
  • People
  • Life
  • Good

• ... while infants will sync with the human voice regardless of language, they later become habituated to the rhythms of their own language and culture ... ... humans are tied to each other by hierarchies of rhythms that are culture-specific and expressed through language and body movement.

  

  Edward T. Hall
  • Culture
  • Language
  • Voice

• Here is what is needed for Occupy Wall Street to become a force for change: a clear, and clearly expressed, objective. Or two.

  

  Elayne Boosler
  • Change
  • Wall
  • Force

• But still, if it's true, how can it be a lie?

  

  Astrid Lindgren
  • True
  • Lie

• Man is at the bottom an animal, midway a citizen, and at the top divine. But the climate of this world is such that few ripen at the top.

  

  Henry Ward Beecher
  • Man
  • Animal
  • Divine

• Let men of all ranks whether they are successful, or unsuccessful, whether they triumph or not; let them do their duty, and rest satisfied.

  

  Plato
  • Duty
  • Triumph
  • Ranks

• I never look at a high point in my career. Everyone thinks about the Spinks fight, but that fight only lasted 91 seconds, so it's hard to say it defined my career.

  

  Mike Tyson
  • Career
  • Fight
  • Defined

• If Shakespeare had never existed, he asked, would the world have differed much from what it is today? Does the progress of civilization depend upon great men? Is the lot of the average human being better now that in the time of the Pharaohs?

  

  Virginia Woolf
  • Men
  • Today
  • Progress

• Poetry is the most mistaught subject in any school because we teach poetry by form and not by content.

  

  Yolande Cornelia "Nikki" Giovanni, Jr.
  • School
  • Education
  • Poetry

• More men die from overeating than undernourishment.

  

  Nachman of Breslov
  • Men
  • Die
  • Dies

• I spent my life working before I started band. I worked construction, landscaping. I worked in kitchens, cleaned dishes. I worked demolition.

  

  Zachary Cole Smith
  • Life
  • Band
  • Kitchen

• Anxiety is the essential condition of intellectual and artistic creation and everything that is finest in human history.

  

  Charles Frankel
  • Humans
  • Anxiety
  • Creation

• I have an artistic temperament, which is a really tragic thing.

  

  Heather O'Neill
  • Artistic
  • Tragic
  • Temperament