Eudora Welty Quotes

Laurel could not see her face but only the back of her neck, the most vulnerable part of anybody, and she thought: Is there any sleeping person you can be entirely sure you have not misjudged?

Eudora Welty

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• Selfishness is one of the qualities apt to inspire love.

  

  Nathaniel Hawthorne
  • Love
  • For Her
  • Inspire

• My parents weren't keen on the giving up of school at the beginning to go into singing and dancing, but once they saw I was serious about it, they gave support. I was quite stubborn about my decision, and in the end, they realised it was for the best.

  

  Kate Bush
  • Up
  • School
  • Parents

• Travel, of course, narrows the mind.

  

  Malcolm Muggeridge
  • Mind
  • Travel
  • Course

• My music is a personal thing, and I feel like if I talk too much about the songs, or if there's too much of my personal life out there, it ruins it.

  

  Washed Out
  • Life
  • Music
  • Too Much

• I'm not out looking for a cause. They sort of find me or find my heart. But sure, there's always time for that. My big mouth can talk all the time.

  

  Natalie Maines
  • Time
  • Heart
  • Sure

• Liverpool is a massive club in reputation, but as soon as I came here, it felt like Atletico to me. It is a working city, an honest city. The people work all week, and on Saturday they want to go to Anfield and watch the best team in the world.

  

  Fernando Torres
  • People
  • World
  • Work

• Ambedkar was the first person to attain escape velocity and run away to US.

  

  Rahul Gandhi

• ‘Yes, my friend,’ he said. ‘It is so easy to be an American - here in Paris! A nasal voice - the chewing gum - the little goatee - the horned-rimmed spectacles - all the appurtenances of the stage American…’

  

  Agatha Christie
  • American
  • Friend
  • Paris

• Si eres bueno con éste, con aquél dirán que eres bueno. Si eres bueno con todos, nadie dirá que eres bueno.

  

  Antonio Porchia

• We will discover through our own experience that this precious mind of love is the real wish-granting jewel, because it fulfills the pure wishes of both ourself and all living beings.

  

  Kelsang Gyatso
  • Mind
  • Real
  • Experience

• With Digg, users submit stories for review, but rather than allow an editor to decide which stories go on the homepage, the users do.

  

  Kevin Rose

• I am so rich that I must give myself away.

  

  Egon Schiele

• I don't know whether there is anyone else at all who remembers my noble father with such sadness.

  

  Egon Schiele
  • Father

• The private sector is the innovation engine of our economy, and more private-sector businesses and organizations than ever are recognizing that training, promoting, and retaining women is essential to their continued competitiveness - and their bottom line.

  

  Martha McSally
  • Women
  • Training
  • Innovation

• When 'Joy Luck Club' came out, I kind of became a role model for the Asian acting community. I started to talk at colleges and emcee charity things. I'm much more connected to my sense of being Asian now.

  

  Lauren Tom
  • Community
  • Joy
  • Model

• Joining the military is not to be taken lightly. You're putting every part of yourself at risk, not just your body but your moral and spiritual centre.

  

  Kevin Powers
  • Taken
  • Spiritual
  • Risk

• At the end of the day, I continue to think I can get better, and that's always my focus.

  

  Draymond Green
  • Focus

• We have been working towards providing a clean environment to the people of India, and we are doing it out of our own conviction.

  

  Piyush Goyal
  • People
  • Environment

• Of course this is Vegas and it is the melting pot for all over the world, but people from all over the world know Donny and Marie. It is amazing. I have been in the business a long time to realize careers can be fleeting. Five years is a long career nowadays for some people, and here we are still going strong after 40 years.

  

  Donny Osmond
  • People
  • Time
  • World

• Generally I can sleep any time, anywhere, any place, unless I'm anxious about work. I can get performance anxiety, so when I'm on tour it can be hard to sleep.

  

  Natalie Imbruglia
  • Time
  • Work
  • Sleep

• in the summertime sometimes i sleep 'macho': ah, white t-shirt, no underpants. Sleeping macho looks very attractive on a man. I feel like it helps me breathe. 21

  

  Ze Frank
  • Sleep
  • Breathe
  • Summertime

• I understand about the relative strengths of people, and I don't think people have to be anything. They can be nothin' if they want to be.

  

  Cecil Taylor
  • People
  • Want
  • Relative

• Laurel could not see her face but only the back of her neck, the most vulnerable part of anybody, and she thought: Is there any sleeping person you can be entirely sure you have not misjudged?

  

  Eudora Welty
  • Sleep
  • Persons
  • Faces