Eve Babitz Quotes

I was always much too elated to imagine despair.

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• All theory of modernity in sociology suggests that the more modernity there is, the less religion. In my theory we can realize that this is wrong: atheism is only one belief system among many.

  

  Ulrich Beck
  • Religion
  • Belief
  • Realize

• I would not vote for the mayor. It's not just because he didn't invite me to dinner, but because on my way into town from the airport there were such enormous potholes.

  

  Fidel Castro
  • Way
  • Dinner
  • Town

• The real idols . . . are the people who work for Polk Works. I'm honored by this.

  

  Larry Miller
  • People
  • Work
  • Real

• The theater is too deep for me. I prefer bicycling.

  

  Jean Gabin
  • Deep
  • Theater
  • Too Deep

• There is always one person in the office that you want to whip their ass! If you don't know who it is, it is probably you.

  

  D. L. Hughley
  • Want
  • Office
  • Ass

• I've said consistently that I always reserve the right, in conjunction with a broader international effort, to prevent genocide or any wholesale slaughter than might happen inside of Iraq or anyplace else.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Effort
  • Might
  • Iraq

• You are always free to choose what you do first, what you do second, and what you do not do at all

  

  Brian Tracy
  • Free
  • Firsts

• Love is something that never goes out of style.

  

  Beyonce Destiny's Child
  • Style
  • Love Is

• [Donald Trump] is been very consistent on trade.

  

  Maria Bartiromo
  • Trump
  • Trade
  • Donald Trump

• A European brewery has purchased Anheuser-Busch, the makers of Budweiser, for $52 billion. Which is a a shame because if they had waited until happy hour, they could have paid half that.

  

  Conan O'Brien
  • Happy
  • Budweiser
  • Brewery

• You need that hunger no matter what, because eventually the honeymoon period wears off. Somewhere between printing your business cards that say 'founder' on them and everything else you have to do, you realize, 'Oh, actually this is a ton of work.'

  

  Drew Houston
  • Work
  • Business
  • Period

• If one could be friendly with women, what a pleasure - the relationship so secret and private compared with relations with men. Why not write about it truthfully?

  

  Virginia Woolf
  • Men
  • Women
  • Secret

• If I profane with my unworthiest hand This holy shrine, the gentle fine is this: My lips, two blushing pilgrims, ready stand To smooth that rough touch with a tender kiss.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Kissing
  • Holy
  • Gentle

• I do like a lot of things that a lot of adults would scoff at. 'SpongeBob SquarePants,' 'Looney Tunes.'

  

  R. L. Stine
  • Like
  • Things
  • Would

• [But if things continue the way they are] ...the society that I envision, if my dream is not just a false notion, this society will have to begin to create itself in the midst of fuss, noisiness and panic, and will have to face the prospects of both internal and external war.

  

  Ahad Ha'am
  • War
  • Dream
  • Faces

• When you edit, you imagine your enemy is seated on the other side of the table. Your enemy! And your enemy is going to read that with a viciousness, because he knows where you didn't work on it. He's going to shake it and really aim for that jugular. So you are going to polish, and revise, and rewrite, and cut out, and shape it, so that your enemy has no place to grip it. That's how you revise.

  

  Sandra Cisneros
  • Enemy
  • Cutting
  • Imagine

• I was always much too elated to imagine despair.

  

  Eve Babitz
  • Imagine
  • Elated