Eudora Welty Quotes

I think that as you learn more about writing you learn to be direct.

Eudora Welty

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• I can do whatever I want.

  

  Karl Lagerfeld
  • Want
  • I Can
  • Whatever

• All true happiness, pure joy, sweet bounties, and unclouded pleasure are contained within the knowledge and love of God.

  

  Said Nursi
  • God
  • Love
  • True

• I never thought about having a daughter, and then I had a daughter, and it was a remarkable thing. It was very different from having a son and your response to it. With a son, it's much more complex. And it's probably because of my stuff in the past. With a daughter, I was surprised at how simple it is.

  

  Sam Shepard
  • Different
  • Past
  • Simple

• I could have taken the easy life and just done classical, but I felt very strongly about the album, my first pop album, the first time that I'd fused so many influences. I was very proud when it was in the charts in 25 countries at once.

  

  Vanessa Mae
  • Life
  • Time
  • Done

• I had a lovely, feral, free childhood - out and then come back when you're hungry or it gets too dark. I feel slightly cruel that I'm not offering my children the same.

  

  Olivia Colman
  • Children
  • Free
  • Dark

• Opera in English is, in the main, just about as sensible as baseball in Italian.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • English
  • Baseball
  • Italian

• When you're creating a fragrance, you're always thinking about what you want that first smell to be, that first reaction. It's a sensation, like a symphony with all of those layers and notes. I love the way it changes and the way it dries down. The fun thing about scent is that it's unique to everyone; pheromones take on a new scent.

  

  L'Wren Scott
  • Thinking
  • Reaction
  • Fragrance

• One of the things I did to make myself feel better is that I kicked up my running even more. I knew that I had to stay active, that I had to keep living as if my life was actually going to unfold naturally because when you stop, when you freeze, and you think about it, that's when the demons come and can drag you down.

  

  Dan Hill
  • Life
  • Up
  • Running

• The moment we realize that the only things we can intelligibly value are actual and potential changes in the experience of conscious beings, we can think about a landscape of such changes - where the peaks correspond to the greatest possible well-being and the valleys correspond to the lowest depths of suffering.

  

  Sam Harris
  • Experience
  • Value
  • Suffering

• Coming from a middle class background, travel was always considered a luxury then, even if it meant going to a relative's place or a religious shrine.

  

  Imtiaz Ali
  • Always
  • Religious
  • Travel

• I know who Jack Whittaker is. And some days I don't like who I am.

  

  Jack Whittaker
  • Like
  • Jack Whittaker

• In the United States, the majority undertakes to supply a multitude of ready-made opinions for the use of individuals, who are thus relieved from the necessity of forming opinions of their own.

  

  Alexis de Tocqueville

• I see no good reason why the views given in this volume should shock the religious feelings of any one.

  

  Charles Darwin
  • Good
  • Why
  • Religious

• Festive cocktails mean color, lots of color.

  

  Danny Meyer
  • Color

• I make very proper clothes. But I was never that person. For a long time, I thought that was the image I needed to have for my brand. And I thought that's the person that I needed to be. Because it gave me a distinct image that no one can deny.

  

  Jason Wu
  • Time
  • Long

• It's a character I've created. Actually, that's pretty much the opposite of me, off a farm in the Midwest.

  

  Douglas Wilson
  • Character
  • Pretty

• The character of Johnny Drama was a lot of fun to play.

  

  Kevin Dillon
  • Character
  • Fun
  • Drama

• Certainly from the rehearsal process with Elizabeth I think it was very clear. Well let me start again. We were initially supposed to be more combative.

  

  Jennifer Beals

• I knew from the age of five what I wanted to do. The one thing I could do was draw. I couldn't draw that much better than some of the other kids, but I cared more and I wanted it badly.

  

  Chuck Close
  • Kids
  • Age

• When we talk about 9/11 and 26/11 - which is the shorthand for the Mumbai attacks in 2008 - we're talking about the most successful terrorist attacks in history. When you start trying to study the most successful event of its kind, it actually doesn't make for great fiction because there isn't the kind of failure in it that fiction thrives on.

  

  Karan Mahajan
  • Great
  • Trying
  • History

• Don't just ask God for what we want. Let him teach us what we should want.

  

  Kevin DeYoung
  • God

• I have no intention of slurring over the differences we have with socialism, nor concealing my belief that we are the National Party of Great Britain, representing not narrow class interest, nor the bigotry of the left wing intellectuals, but all those who support the British tradition of democracy, of personal freedom, of personal responsibility for one's own affairs and those of one's family, with the least possible interference from the State.

  

  Norman Tebbit
  • Support
  • Party
  • Responsibility

• We never know how much one loves till we know how much he is willing to endure and suffer for us; and it is the suffering element that measures love. The characters that are great must, of necessity, be characters that shall be willing, patient and strong to endure for others. To hold our nature in the willing service of another is the divine idea of manhood, of the human character.

  

  Henry Ward Beecher
  • Suffer
  • Loves
  • Endure

• I think that as you learn more about writing you learn to be direct.

  

  Eudora Welty
  • Thinking
  • Writing
  • Direct