Malcolm Cowley Quotes

Put cotton in your ears and pebbles in your shoes. Pull on rubber gloves. Smear Vaseline over your glasses, and there you have it: instant old age.

Malcolm Cowley

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• I believe that you can always learn from observation.

  

  Tamara Tunie
  • Believe
  • Learn
  • Observation

• Life is like an analogy.

  

  Aaron Allston
  • Life
  • Like
  • Analogy

• Our parents are obviously proud, but they're still trying to get used to the fact that we're in a band. I have a feeling my mom would actually like One Direction if I wasn't in it!

  

  Zayn Malik One Direction
  • Trying
  • Parents
  • Feeling

• Christian Louboutin, I love you, but honey, please! But when you have this much weight, you've got to give us a little platform. Sorry! The shoes are stunning though. An ounce of pain, it's worth it.

  

  Octavia Spencer
  • Pain
  • Give
  • Worth

• I'm an actor. That's what I'm gifted at. It's what makes me breathe.

  

  Samantha Morton
  • Me
  • Actor
  • Breathe

• Marriage is not a noun; it's a verb. It isn't something you get. It's something you do. It's the way you love your partner every day.

  

  Barbara De Angelis
  • Love
  • Marriage
  • For Her

• After Versace was murdered, the first person to call me was Mandela.

  

  Naomi Campbell
  • Me
  • Person
  • First

• I live in one of Judy Garland's houses. As a fan, I never much liked Judy Garland, but living here, I feel like I have come to know her. People have given me a few of her possessions, and my neighbors have told me things that I wish I didn't know.

  

  Taylor Negron
  • People
  • Know
  • Me

• Music is a very big part of my preparation as an actor.

  

  Hailee Steinfeld
  • Music
  • Very
  • Preparation

• There are players there that you wished you could have on your squad. . . . I had some tough conversations today.

  

  Joe Gibbs
  • Today
  • Conversation
  • Players

• I was really bothered by it. I grew up around many Asian cultures, Korean one of them. A lot of my best friends were Korean growing up. I just didn't understand. Later on I realized that was built up by certain people and that was directed at me, negative energy from other things, not even resulting around the sport, but around politics, using me to stand on the pedestal as the anti-American sentiment.

  

  Apolo Ohno
  • People
  • Up
  • Friends

• I strapped an MP3 player to one of those floor-cleaning robots. Call him DJ Roomba - little guy cruises around and plays music. What's hot, DJ Roomba!

  

  Aziz Ansari
  • Music
  • Guy
  • Player

• When I started out in this business, I was a performer before I was a songwriter, I was a performer before I was recording. Performing is the roots. That's where it all came from. You didn't start out doing it because you wanted to make an album.

  

  Van Morrison
  • Business
  • Roots
  • Albums

• The dog lives for the day, the hour, even the moment.

  

  Robert Falcon Scott
  • Day
  • Dog
  • Moment

• Took a vow to protect and serve,

  

  Ka
  • Kids
  • Hurt
  • Rap

• No lie ever reaches old age.

  

  Sophocles
  • Lie
  • Old Age
  • Reaches

• Just as old age is creeping on space, And clouds come o'er the sunset of our day, They kindly leave us, though not quite alone, But in good company--the gout or stone.

  

  Lord Byron
  • Sunset
  • Old Age
  • Gout

• But stories that live longest Are sung above the glass, And Parnell loved his country And Parnell loved his lass.

  

  William Butler Yeats
  • Country
  • Stories
  • Praise

• My manner of living is plain. I do not mean to be put out of it. A glass of wine and a bit of mutton are always ready; and such as will be content to partake of them are always welcome. Those, who expect more, will be disappointed, but no change will be effected by it.

  

  George Washington
  • Mean
  • Wine
  • Welcome

• 100,000 soldiers are reported to have died in the Iraqi war. If you count 100 relatives of each soldier, it means that practically there are millions of people who now have antagonism toward the white people of America. These Arab people will remember this country whose main religion is Christianity, who came and destroyed all Iraqi facilities and industry. They won't easily forget this.

  

  Sun Myung Moon
  • People
  • Country
  • Remember

• Put cotton in your ears and pebbles in your shoes. Pull on rubber gloves. Smear Vaseline over your glasses, and there you have it: instant old age.

  

  Malcolm Cowley
  • Glasses
  • Old Age
  • Gloves