Eve Babitz Quotes

I was sure that somewhere a grandiose carnival was going on in the sky, and I was missing it.

Eve Babitz

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• My dad and I would watch Ray Lewis a lot. His tenacity, and he was everywhere. I wanted that mindset, too.

  

  Malik Jackson
  • Dad
  • Watch
  • Mindset

• Old things are always in good repute, present things in disfavor.

  

  Tacitus
  • Good
  • Present
  • Old

• It is the destiny of mint to be crushed.

  

  Waverley Lewis Root
  • Destiny
  • Crushed
  • Mint

• I want to take a more international direction with my career.

  

  Maluma
  • Want
  • Career
  • Direction

• I love eyebrows, so brow pencils and brow shadow are really important to me.

  

  Zara Larsson
  • Important
  • Shadow
  • Really

• For 'Is' and 'Is-not' though with Rule and Line And 'Up' and 'Down' by Logic I define, Of all that one should care to fathom, Was never deep in anything but - Wine.

  

  Omar Khayyam
  • Up
  • Deep
  • Wine

• I'm doing good. I've had a slight nervous breakdown in the '60s. I got through that. And I got through the '70s. And I was in a doctor's program during the '80s and then I met Melinda and we've been together ever since. I've got a happy life.

  

  Brian Wilson
  • Life
  • Good
  • Together

• Us sing and dance, make faces and give flower bouquets, trying to be loved. You ever notice that trees do everything to get attention we do, except walk?

  

  Alice Walker
  • Trying
  • Attention
  • Dance

• Death,I need my little addiction to you.need that tiny voice who,even as I rise from the sea,all woman, all there,says kill me, kill me.

  

  Anne Sexton
  • Death
  • Sea
  • Addiction

• I think extreme heterosexuality is a perversion.

  

  Margaret Mead

• I'm a big breakfast person: Eggs, bacon and yogurt is my go-to meal before a round. On the course, peanut-butter-and-jelly sandwiches are great for energy, but a protein bar works, too.

  

  Lexi Thompson
  • Great
  • Energy
  • Breakfast

• One of the things that may get lost among all the hubbub when a company is 'going public' is that the business can now be owned, in part, by its greatest fans.

  

  Danny Meyer
  • May
  • Business
  • Lost

• It's not my job to convince people that Koresh was the final messenger or had this final message.

  

  David Thibodeau
  • People
  • Job

• My entire career, everybody says I need to punch somebody.

  

  Blake Griffin
  • Career

• Conscience that isn't hitched up to common sense is a mighty dangerous thing.

  

  Margaret Deland
  • Up

• I've always been on the business side - running P&L and working with clients.

  

  Adena Friedman
  • Business
  • Running

• I'm truly worried about the country's direction. I can tell you this categorically, we've got the weakest president and the weakest governor in the history of my 50 years of public service.

  

  Fritz Hollings
  • Country
  • History
  • Service

• I'm 100 percent a byproduct of my sport. I always tell my teammates that I only have muscles where they get to play.

  

  Christen Press

• If I miss one day of practice, I notice it. If I miss two days, the critics notice it. If I miss three days, the audience notices it.

  

  Ignacy Jan Paderewski
  • Practice
  • Audience
  • Missing

• In the middle of the dream I said to myself 'press pause' and in the dream I said I'm going to write this down. But I was so frightened to get out of bed and write it down that I would miss the rest of the story. And I had to know what happens. And I pressed play. When I finished there was a knowing that I would never forget this. I literally had a smile. There was a knowing in my sleep. And here I am. I was actually reading it to my dogs yesterday. I still find it quite incredible.

  

  David Dayan Fisher
  • Dream
  • Reading
  • Sleep

• We are opposed to all cruelty, so as advocates of non-violence, opponents of oppression, people who abhor the cruelty inherent in slaughtering we say the only ethical way to consume flesh is to pick up the carcass of an animal who has died naturally or been killed accidentally, say by being hit by a car, and eat that.

  

  Ingrid Newkirk
  • People
  • Up
  • Violence

• I've always seen writing as a way of telling the truth. For me, writing is about truth. I have always tried to be faithful to my own experience.

  

  Edmund White
  • Writing
  • Experience
  • Truth

• I was sure that somewhere a grandiose carnival was going on in the sky, and I was missing it.

  

  Eve Babitz
  • Sky
  • Missing
  • Carnival