Eve Babitz Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
I wonder sometimes if the motivation for writers ought to be contempt, not admiration.
-
That crossover of whether it's entertainment or news is the biggest crock of b.s. in television today, because it's all entertainment.
-
I've always written pop songs. I tend to take inspiration from more experimental genres, like ambient music, but at the root of the song, it's verse-chorus-verse.
-
I hope SeaWorld is exploring how, like Ringling, it can get out of the wild animal business.
-
Our worst comes out when we behave like robots or professionals.
-
Even though people say Richard Harris and I have been having a great feud, it's not true.
-
In all the world, rich people are very unpopular.
-
I decided to pursue music, so I dropped out of school and I told my parents I didn't want any money from them. I got three jobs and I just hit the ground running.
-
You have to constantly redefine who you are.
-
When President Hassan Rouhani was elected in Iran in 2013, he welcomed back the far-flung children of Iran. But one by one, they have been arrested and imprisoned upon their return, a fate that has made me increasingly reluctant to risk going back to a homeland I've not seen since 1992.
-
I still like to sit in a room and play games all day, so I'm a kid, really.
-
My best advice is to not start in PowerPoint. Presentation tools force you to think through information linearly, and you really need to start by thinking of the whole instead of the individual lines.
-
It is our family's hope that the true legacy and context of Malcolm X's life continues to be shared with people from all walks of life in a positive manner that helps promote the goals and ideals for which Malcolm X so passionately advocated.
-
I've been writing in some way, shape, or form for as long as I can remember.
-
All that would remain of me would be the raincoat I’d been wearing, rolled on a bench.
-
As goes love so goes life.
-
Is there a poem that never reaches words And one that chaffers the time away? Is the poem both peculiar and general? There’s a meditation there, in which there seemsTo be an evasion, a thing not apprehended or Not apprehended well. Does the poet Evade us, as in a senseless element?
-
The painter leaves his mark. And I just put in two statues in Rhode Island that I'm working on. And I think that's going to make me last longer than me. I mean, who remembers 'Zorba?' Nobody remembers 'Zorba.' Nobody remembers 'Requiem for a Heavyweight.'
-
Victimism can be seen as a generalized cultural impulse to deny personal responsibility and to obsess on the grievances of the insatiable self.
-
When I was sixteen years old, I was sentenced to two years in prison; the Swedish government changed it, so I could go to a boarding school as part of a social programme. I was in this boarding school with some of the richest kids in Sweden.
-
Going to war against Iran - whether one calls such a move 'surgical' or 'total' - would be an extremely serious undertaking; with worldwide economic, military, diplomatic and human ramifications in both the short- and the long-term.
-
Freedom is unlikely to be lost all at once and openly. It is far more likely to be eroded away, bit by bit, amid glittering promises and expressions of noble ideals.
-
When I promise I'll do something, I do it. At least since I got sober.
