Eudora Welty Quotes

Southerners love a good tale. They are born reciters, great memory retainers, diary keepers, letter exchangers . . . great talkers.

Eudora Welty

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• The products in my bathroom are pretty minimal. Issey Miyake makes great cologne, and I use everything from Zirh, especially their shave scream. I really like Mario Badesco aftershave, too. It's amazing.

  

  Sam Bradford
  • Great
  • Pretty
  • Amazing

• Most executives are male, so it's always sort of their vision of stuff. I'm constantly fighting against that even when I play the wife or the girlfriend or the best friend. I always try my hardest to bring as much layering in and not make things stereotypical, but it's hard.

  

  Madchen Amick
  • Friend
  • Wife
  • Best

• I am scared; I don't know what is going to happen to me. What was the point of working so hard and of being talented, to be rewarded like this? Never a penny, tormented all my life. It is horrible; one cannot imagine it.

  

  Camille Claudel
  • Life
  • Working
  • Scared

• I do not believe in populism. I am not a supporter of radical decisions. Practice has shown that usually these are harmful.

  

  Valentina Matviyenko
  • Believe
  • Practice
  • Decisions

• I was in the Boy Scouts for about four years until my troop disbanded. It is really one of the best activities youths can get involved in and nearly every scout I have known has been a class act due to the discipline the Scouts have instilled in them.

  

  Ted Stevens
  • Best
  • Boy
  • Years

• If you could get all the people in the organization rowing in the same direction, you could dominate any industry, in any market, against any competition, at any time.

  

  Patrick Lencioni
  • People
  • Time
  • Competition

• There are many challenges, there are many obstacles; let us try to change the obstacles to advantages.

  

  Harri Holkeri
  • Change
  • Try
  • Obstacles

• It's Teach For America's responsibility to ensure that all alumni know their voices are heard and valued, and to surface the range of opinion they represent.

  

  Wendy Kopp
  • America
  • Responsibility
  • Opinion

• I know so many Irish musicians. They're all over, because there has been so much emigration from Ireland. Like the Jews.

  

  Daniel Barenboim
  • Know
  • Irish
  • Musicians

• It was my love for the guitar that first got me into music and singing. Growing up, I was inspired by The Beatles and Bob Dylan. Damian Rice was a huge influence for me musically.

  

  Ed Sheeran
  • Music
  • Growing
  • Inspired

• Usually when a song comes to me, I don't ask a lot of questions; I hear something, and I just let it out in song. It's like making a salad. Everything I hear, and everything I am, I mix together in a different way in each song.

  

  Yael Naim
  • Song
  • Way
  • Questions

• I am First Lady by accident. I was not elected by the people but here I am.

  

  Imelda Marcos
  • Elected
  • First Lady

• Black was not the universal hue of mourning in Europe. In Castile, white obtained on the death of its princes.

  

  Sabine Baring-Gould
  • Death
  • Black
  • White

• I haven't been the kind of writer about whom book-length academic studies have been written.

  

  Manuel Puig
  • Book
  • Kind
  • Writer

• I grew up in a community of theatre, and I always loved musicals. From a young age, the first present I ever wanted was a video camera. For me it was a great outlet to be creative.

  

  Christopher Egan
  • Up
  • Great
  • Age

• Here it is, 2011, and I feel zero shame when I tell you I would like to marry my smartphone. It is a handful of pure delight.

  

  Lynn Coady

• There's this weird kind of coming-in-from-left-field thing going on, and I love it - I am a huge fan of Christopher Durang.

  

  Jane Lynch
  • Weird

• I am good at down grading - I have found I can live the same lifestyle in a two-bedroom apartment as in a five-bedroom house.

  

  Britt Ekland
  • Good
  • Live
  • House

• I really like to kid around, and it's my own way of concentrating. In order for me to be able to feel better and concentrate, I need everybody else around me to be relaxed.

  

  Omar Sy
  • Way
  • Me
  • Better

• My parents are older, and they lead a somewhat sheltered life. It was difficult to talk with them about things that were embarrassing to me, and that I had never spoken to them about.

  

  Anita Hill
  • Life
  • Parents

• I am in the Labour Party because I am a feminist. I am in the Labour Party because I believe in equality.

  

  Harriet Harman
  • Believe
  • Party
  • Equality

• I'm 78. We've lost a lot of our great stars. I can't hang out with those who aren't here. The phone service to Heaven is so bad, you know. But I get to visit with their memories.

  

  Debbie Reynolds
  • Great
  • Bad
  • Lost

• A lot of artists use memories. A lot of prose writers, a lot of poets, a lot of songwriters, refer back to something. Generally it's all you've got, unless you're brilliant and can write totally in the now.

  

  Paul McCartney Paul McCartney and Wings
  • Writing
  • Artist
  • Memories

• Southerners love a good tale. They are born reciters, great memory retainers, diary keepers, letter exchangers . . . great talkers.

  

  Eudora Welty
  • Memories
  • Born
  • Diaries