Eyvind Johnson Quotes

A writer's work often reflects what he or she has been exposed to in life; experiences which are the groundwork of a poem or a story.

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• Disciples of Keynes, who focus on aggregate demand, view any increase in household wealth as raising employment because they say it adds to consumer demand.

  

  Edmund Phelps
  • Focus
  • Wealth
  • View

• We are not interested in the possibilities of defeat. They do not exist.

  

  Queen Victoria
  • Exist
  • Defeat
  • Possibilities

• I like having a smaller family. I think the more people you have in the family, the more people there are to have problems with.

  

  Mackenzie Rosman
  • People
  • Family
  • Problems

• We've got a dictatorial president and a Justice Department that does not want Congress involved. Your guy's acting like he's king. His dad was at a 90 percent approval rating and he lost! And the same thing can happen to him!

  

  Dan Burton
  • Guy
  • Lost
  • Dad

• Beijing was such a different city. There were so few cars, I could walk in the middle of the road. In the summer, the streetlamps attracted swirling bugs. I loved those bugs: crickets, praying mantis, all kinds of beetles. I also have a vivid memory of dazzling sunlight coming out of the sky.

  

  Ma Jun
  • Different
  • City
  • Road

• I'm into menswear slacks that are comfortable.

  

  Rachel Bilson
  • Comfortable

• I've still got that little freedom part of me that wants to have a car that looks really sexy.

  

  Patrice O'Neal
  • Freedom
  • Me
  • Car

• I've always had an addictive nature.

  

  Gail Porter
  • Nature
  • Always
  • Addictive

• I'm a terrific mimic, and you can feel my funny bone.

  

  Madhur Bhandarkar
  • You
  • Funny
  • Feel

• I grew up eating Cuban food all the time.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • Up
  • Time
  • Food

• I don't know if anybody wants to mix their politics with their entertainment.

  

  Fiona Apple
  • Know
  • Politics
  • Wants

• In Edna, I created a satiric portrait of my hometown of Melbourne, a large provincial English city paradoxically in far Southeast Asia. She's a theatrical figure, related to vaudeville in some respects. She inhabits a world in which there are comparatively few female exponents of comedy.

  

  Barry Humphries
  • World
  • She
  • City

• I like most of the Humphrey Bogart movies because they had to act then, and they acted very well. Edward G. Robinson is probably the best actor I've ever seen on the movies.

  

  Patrick Macnee
  • Best
  • Like
  • Movies

• When I heard 'Jesus, Take the Wheel,' I was like, OK. Some people look at it as a song written for an American Idol, Carrie Underwood, who is wonderful. But when you're a songwriter listening to a song, you hear something else. I heard that song, and wow.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • People
  • American
  • Song

• A song without music is a lot like H2 without the O.

  

  Ira Gershwin
  • Music
  • Song
  • Like

• In late 2003, the Bush administration reversed a long-standing policy requiring agents to destroy their files on innocent American citizens, companies and residents when investigations closed.

  

  Barton Gellman
  • Long
  • American
  • Innocent

• They love putting me in the 'indie queen' box. I had some high standards in my 20s that I don't have anymore.

  

  Parker Posey
  • Love
  • High
  • Me

• As we were all growing up, there used to be a very big mantra in India which was called 'export or perish.' There was a long period when we used to focus on import substitution.

  

  Uday Kotak
  • Up
  • Long
  • Growing

• As long as she is talented enough and passionate about doing it herself then I will be happy and support her. I think I will be sensible - my parents said I could only do it if I got my education and so I had something to fall back on.

  

  Anna Friel
  • Long
  • She
  • Happy

• My friends told me that it's the hardest thing to separate the personal life from their work.

  

  Manny Montana
  • Life
  • Work
  • Friends

• I don't connect to a certain girliness or talking about girly things - I feel unauthentic and uncomfortable in that world - maybe I'm just more butch than I realize! I have, however, been fortunate to have a number of great girlfriends. You don't meet as many girls as you do guys in my line of work, so I do cherish my friendships.

  

  Elizabeth Reaser
  • World
  • Work
  • Great

• I have yet to find the man, however exalted his station, who did not do better work and put forth greater effort under a spirit of approval than under a spirit of criticism.

  

  Charles Schwab
  • Work
  • Effort
  • Criticism

• The whole Bible is the story of men and women trying to get back to God, to overcome that sin with sacrifices, good works, sermons, prophesy, witnessing, giving all kinds of things. It never worked.

  

  Keith Miller
  • Good
  • God
  • Men

• A writer's work often reflects what he or she has been exposed to in life; experiences which are the groundwork of a poem or a story.

  

  Eyvind Johnson
  • Work
  • Writer
  • Experiences