Eve Babitz Quotes

I've often noticed that there is a moment when a man develops enough confidence and ease in a relationship to bore you to death. Sometimes one hardly even notices it's happened, that moment, until some careless remark arouses one's suspicions.

Eve Babitz

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• I realised that you couldn't use the tools of yesterday to communicate today's world. Basically, that was the big light that went on in my head.

  

  Damien Hirst
  • World
  • Today
  • Light

• In Egypt today most people are concerned with getting bread to eat. Only some of the educated understand how democracy works.

  

  Naguib Mahfouz
  • People
  • Today
  • Democracy

• At the end of the day, you can't have a vision; you have to have a hope. This is where the miracle comes in.

  

  Dan Colen
  • Hope
  • Day
  • Vision

• If we want to recruit and retain high-quality teachers, it starts with a fair wage, adequate working conditions, and the resources and support to succeed. Remember: teachers' working conditions are students' learning conditions.

  

  Randi Weingarten
  • Remember
  • High
  • Want

• Work is the price which is paid for reputation.

  

  Baltasar Gracian
  • Work
  • Price
  • Reputation

• You just have to take these opportunities when they come along. They're not that frequent; you'll get a really good script, oh, maybe once a year if you're lucky.

  

  Felicity Jones
  • Good
  • Year
  • Opportunities

• Milosevic will never stop, because he is fighting for personal power in Serbia. The only way to stop him is cutting the functioning of his war machine. He is spending $1.7 million a day on his war machine in Kosovo.

  

  Fatos Nano
  • Power
  • War
  • Stop

• The good news is world population growth rate decreases systematically and is expected to reach zero by 2050, thanks to urbanisation and women's education.

  

  Dan Shechtman
  • World
  • Good
  • Women

• I have no problem with nudity. I can look at myself. I like walking around nude. It doesn't bother me. I see all the people walking around nude; it doesn't bother me.

  

  Ursula Andress
  • People
  • Problem
  • Myself

• I don't believe being gay is something you can change, no more than you can change the color of your hair or your eyes. Well, I dye my hair, so maybe that's not the best example. But your eyes!

  

  Patricia Polacco
  • Believe
  • Change
  • Eyes

• After 'The Empire Strikes Back,' I got to make big films that I didn't care about, 'Never Say Never Again' and 'RoboCop 2,' and then I got too old.

  

  Irvin Kershner
  • Never
  • Care
  • Old

• From the preemptive strike that destroyed Egypt's air force during the Six-Day War, to the daring raid on Entebbe, to using all available means to slow the Iranian nuclear program, Israelis have combined strength with ingenuity to keep the country's enemies at bay.

  

  Ted Deutch
  • Country
  • War
  • Air

• Women see me as a figure they can respect. They know I've been through a lot. I'm not going to let no man put me under.

  

  La India
  • Women
  • Man
  • Respect

• I had no education in filmmaking. I started with a 8mm camera. I made 34 films, and little by little I gained more experience in filming.

  

  Bahman Ghobadi
  • Experience
  • Education

• I only listen to myself, I hate to say. I don't got time to listen to nobody else. There's a lot of guys out there, but I only listen to myself.

  

  Mark Curry
  • Time
  • Hate

• Victorian values meant brutalizing people who were often poor.

  

  Charles Palliser
  • People

• One thing about Los Angeles is it feels like it's not new. It feels like it's already been built, and it's deteriorating, except for the places they're trying to make nicer. But in general, you drive all through the city, and the city feels like it was new a long time ago.

  

  Albert Brooks
  • Time
  • Long
  • Trying

• I guess it's hard work... whatever the decision is, how to show it to people that aren't necessarily dancers, how to get people to think about more than themselves.

  

  Kyle Abraham
  • People
  • Work
  • Decision

• Sometimes I say to myself, 'Oh, I wish I could win a Tony Award', although I'm not that bothered.

  

  David Sedaris
  • Wish

• I think one of the traps of theater - what makes it so amazing is that it's not able to be mass-produced, but it also makes it hard to get work seen by people because if you're a creator, you do a cabaret or something, and maybe 100 people will see it and then it ends the night that you close it.

  

  Andrew Keenan-Bolger
  • People
  • Work
  • Night

• The least known among the virtues and also the most misunderstood is the virtue of humility. Yet, it is the very groundwork of Christianity. Humility is a grace of the soul that cannot be expressed in words and is only known by experience. It is an unspeakable treasure of God, and only can be called the gift of God. Learn, He said, not from angels, not from men, not from books; but learn from My presence, light, and action within you, that I am meek and humble of heart, and you shall find rest to your souls.

  

  William Bernard Ullathorne
  • Humility
  • Humble
  • Misunderstood

• People put so much effort into starting a relationship and so little effort into ending one.

  

  Marina Abramovic
  • People
  • Relationship
  • Effort

• I don't remember any sibling rivalry growing up, because by the time I was really conscious, Tom was going away to college. My relationship with him, which is a very close one, really developed in more recent years.

  

  David Hyde Pierce
  • Up
  • Time
  • Remember

• I've often noticed that there is a moment when a man develops enough confidence and ease in a relationship to bore you to death. Sometimes one hardly even notices it's happened, that moment, until some careless remark arouses one's suspicions.

  

  Eve Babitz
  • Relationship
  • Develops
  • Suspicions