Isobelle Carmody (Isobelle Jane Carmody) Quotes

Short stories do not say this happened and this happened and this happened. They are a microcosm and a magnification rather than a linear progression.

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• I had a very difficult relationship with my father, which ended up okay, but there were many difficult years.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Up
  • Father
  • Relationship

• McGregor is a businessman through and through. He's obviously a wrestling fan.

  

  Becky Lynch
  • Wrestling
  • Businessman

• I think that that integrity is something that is important to voters.

  

  Tammy Baldwin
  • Important
  • Think
  • Integrity

• It's not my vision when I cover a woman's face with a chador. I got the idea from a 'National Geographic' photo. I'm just showing their plight in the world.

  

  Alexander McQueen
  • World
  • Vision
  • Face

• Silences, as every observer knows, have strange characteristics all their own - passionate silences, and hateful silences, and silences full of friendly, purring content.

  

  Alice Duer Miller
  • Silence
  • Content
  • Characteristics

• You can have your secret as long as I have your heart.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Long
  • Heart
  • Secret

• It's always difficult to make conversation with a drunk, and there's no denying it, the sober are at a disadvantage with him.

  

  W. Somerset Maugham
  • Drunk

• Here is my wish for you and every other child, woman, and man on the face of the earth: Spend one week saying only kind, caring things to yourself. Say thank you at least ten times an hour, direct five toward yourself and five to the world at large. Compliment yourself (and others) each time an effort is made. Notice all the wonderful qualities and characteristics about yourself and those around you. One week. You will never go back. And your whole life will be a glorious meditation.

  

  Cheri Huber
  • Life
  • Time
  • World

• We believe we will be made whole by our accomplishments, our possessions, or our social status. It's written in the fabric of our DNA that life used to be beautiful and now it isn't, and if only this and only that, it would be beautiful again.

  

  Donald Miller
  • Life
  • Believe
  • Beautiful

• Music directly imitates the passions or states of the soul...when one listens to music that imitates a certain passion, he becomes imbued withthe same passion; and if over a long time he habitually listens to music that rouses ignoble passions, his whole character will be shaped to an ignoble form.

  

  Aristotle
  • Music
  • Character
  • Soul

• I shall never come personally to terms with the Christian lie.

  

  Adolf Hitler
  • Christian
  • Lie
  • Terms

• Im not attracted to expensive things.

  

  Roger McGuinn The Byrds
  • Things
  • Expensive
  • Attracted

• In the '90s, people wore scrunchies, but it was very uncool in the punk scene.

  

  Kathleen Hanna Bikini Kill
  • People
  • Scene
  • Punk

• It was so new to us before, we used to all go rock & roll. Now we're more into getting on with our lives individually, not hanging out every moment. We all know what we like to do. If I want to go to the gym, I'll ring Phil. If I want to go to a bar, I'll ring Sav.

  

  Steve Clark Def Leppard
  • Moment
  • Gym
  • I Want

• I am the most successful unsuccessful actor in New York. And I guess with that, maybe apparent only to myself, there started to be a very subtle but unmistakable whiff of entitlement, bitterness, jealousy. I was not respecting the work.

  

  Norbert Leo Butz
  • Work
  • Actor
  • Jealousy

• I was blacklisted because of this activity, so I'm not a typical anything.

  

  Karen Morley
  • Because
  • Anything
  • Activity

• Experiences is just paying attention as time passes.

  

  Erin McKean
  • Attention
  • Passes

• Short stories do not say this happened and this happened and this happened. They are a microcosm and a magnification rather than a linear progression.

  

  Isobelle Carmody
  • Stories
  • Microcosm
  • Magnification