Eve Babitz Quotes

There are only three things to say about cocaine. One, there is no such thing as enough. Two, it will never be as good as the first time. Three, those first two facts constitute a tragedy of expense in ways that can't be experienced unless you've had cocaine. ... Your brain will settle into a puddle around your sinuses and you will die.

Eve Babitz

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• Tragedy
• Cocaine
• Settle

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• More than anything, there are more images in evil. Evil is based far more on the visual, whereas good has no good images at all.

  

  Lars von Trier
  • Good
  • Evil
  • Far

• I opened about a dozen employment centers for Arab women across Israel during my two years as minister of economy.

  

  Naftali Bennett
  • Women
  • Economy
  • Employment

• I prefer the countryside to cities. This is also true of my films: I have made more films in rural societies, and villages, than in towns.

  

  Abbas Kiarostami
  • True
  • More
  • Countryside

• I absolutely have not spoken to Marvel. It doesn't mean that my team hasn't spoken to Marvel.

  

  Katee Sackhoff
  • Team
  • Mean
  • Marvel

• I'm more of a tough girl, and I'm attracted to things that reflect that in my perfumes. That means sandalwood, musk, amber, and vanilla notes.

  

  Kat Graham
  • Girl
  • Tough
  • Reflect

• Success is always temporary. When all is said and one, the only thing you'll have left is your character.

  

  Vince Gill
  • Character
  • Success
  • Said

• He who does not become familiar with nature through love will never know her.

  

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
  • Nature
  • Know
  • Familiar

• I think that, if anything, the pageant is great for people who suffer from body issues. It's all about being comfortable with what you're given and what you have and being able to flaunt it without being insecure. It's about empowering women, not making them feel weak or less.

  

  Olivia Culpo
  • People
  • Great
  • Women

• The (Catholic) church, as far as I know, has not endorsed any war as just since it supported General Franco's invasion of Spain to destroy the Spanish republic with a Muslim mercenary army in the thirties, on the side of Hitler.

  

  Christopher Hitchens
  • War
  • Church
  • Army

• We need new medical approaches to preventing and/or curing disease. We need new scientific approaches to generating, storing, and being more efficient with energy. Maybe we need more space exploration. Maybe we need more undersea exploration.

  

  Fred Wilson
  • Energy
  • Space

• You can get out of maintaining property at code if the family is behind on rent.

  

  Matthew Desmond
  • Family

• When you're 20 and you're in acting school and your teachers tell you that 95 percent of actors are unemployed for twenty years, you think it doesn't apply to you. But it does take twenty years to become real, because that's what you have to do to be an interesting actor.

  

  Alice Ripley
  • Real
  • School
  • Interesting

• I remember seeing 'Pitch Perfect' and loving it right away. It's hilarious!

  

  Chrissie Fit
  • Remember
  • Perfect
  • Hilarious

• I tour a lot and interview a lot. I'm on the Internet and doing stuff. I go out and promote. I've got a bass drum and a sandwich sign and a washboard. You just have to shout louder and louder that you're still alive.

  

  Al Jarreau

• Emerging markets are hugely important.

  

  James Dyson
  • Important

• Here's an interesting thing about L.A. - it's overrun with black widow spiders. I could find you one on the street in 10 minutes.

  

  Dominic Monaghan
  • Black
  • Interesting

• I think that Obama's failure to reestablish the rule of law in money matters is the most damaging thing that he's done - and perhaps the most damaging thing that has happened in American politics in my lifetime. Because once the rule of law is absent in money matters, then anything really goes in politics.

  

  James Howard Kunstler
  • Money
  • Done
  • American

• I have always felt like I want to change the course of history.

  

  Opal Tometi
  • History

• Laws, religions, creeds, and systems of ethics, instead of making society better than its best unit, make it worse than its average unit, because they are never up to date.

  

  George Bernard Shaw
  • Laws
  • Ethics
  • Religions

• It's hard to tell what an entire series is going to be based on the first few episodes, or even on the first season. And it's sad because you see great casts and good ideas that don't get that opportunity to grow and show what it could turn into.

  

  Kaley Cuoco
  • Good
  • Great
  • Opportunity

• I have to be a teacher to my daughters.

  

  Carnie Wilson Wilson Phillips
  • Teacher

• I am, indeed, an absolute materialist so far as actual belief goes; with not a shred of credence in any form of supernaturalism—religion, spiritualism, transcendentalism, metempsychosis, or immortality.

  

  H. P. Lovecraft
  • Atheist
  • Atheism
  • Psychosis

• A trooper fights for honor ... or from loyalty. Or for loot sometimes. But he waits for pay. He will not wait without it, because when there is no fighting there is no honor to win, no flag to die for, no loot to gain.

  

  Gene Wolfe
  • Die
  • Fighting
  • Honor

• There are only three things to say about cocaine. One, there is no such thing as enough. Two, it will never be as good as the first time. Three, those first two facts constitute a tragedy of expense in ways that can't be experienced unless you've had cocaine. ... Your brain will settle into a puddle around your sinuses and you will die.

  

  Eve Babitz
  • Die
  • Tragedy
  • Cocaine