Ada Louise Huxtable Quotes
Real serious waiting is done in waiting rooms, and what they all have in common is their purpose, or purposelessness, if you will; they are places for doing nothing and they have no life of their own. ... their one constant is what might be called a decorative rigor mortis.Ada Louise Huxtable
Quotes to Explore
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Classical quotation is the parole of literary men all over the world.
Samuel Johnson -
It's a hard life... but if I could, I would do it all again.
Natalia Makarova -
The cliche of what a rock star is - there's something elitist about it. I never related to that. I'm an entertainer. I think of it as, you're performing for people. It's not a self-glorification thing.
Beck -
Pasta with melted cheese is the one thing I could eat over and over again.
Yotam Ottolenghi -
Circle are praised, not that abound, In largeness, but the exactly round.
Edmund Waller -
To be safe at the expense of the liberty of other people is a difficult equation.
Madeleine Albright
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So sometime the expectation of the female by a high expectation. Because peoples think that female were weak in term of, like, of the physically and compared to the men.
Yingluck Shinawatra -
I like to see the difference between good and evil as kind of like the foul line at a baseball game. It's very thin, it's made of something very flimsy like lime, and if you cross it, it really starts to blur where fair becomes foul and foul becomes fair.
Harlan Coben -
Years ago women of my size were considered royalty.
Camryn Manheim -
Only silence perfects silence.
A. R. Ammons -
I'm definitely a Polaroid camera girl. For me, what I'm really excited about is bringing back the artistry and the nature of Polaroid.
Lady Gaga -
I didn't appreciate how special and sometimes strange my CIA world was - until it suddenly and spectacularly ended in a newspaper column.
Valerie Plame
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If this whole acting thing doesn't work out, I'll just get a talk show.
Rachael Leigh -
I don't like people lying to me. I don't like people who don't return my calls. I don't like people who won't give me a straight answer. I don't like those kinds of people, and I've been vocal about it.
Dan Aykroyd -
I don’t like animals. It’s a strange thing, I don’t like men and I don’t like animals. As for God, he is beginning to disgust me.
Samuel Beckett -
It's no use crying over spilt milk, because all of the forces of the universe were bent on spilling it.
W. Somerset Maugham -
He had a bitter pain in his heart, for he knew that she was still a stranger to him and his hungry love was destined ever to remain unsatisfied.
W. Somerset Maugham -
Our focus on discrimination against women during the past 30 years has blinded us to opportunities for women.
Warren Farrell
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There's a long life ahead of you and it's going to be beautiful, as long as you keep loving and hugging each other.
Yoko Ono -
In the lonely hours, I have spent a great deal of time thinking about eternal things. I have contemplated the comforting doctrines of eternal life.
Joseph B. Wirthlin -
He sido para mí, discípulo y maestro. Y he sido un buen discípulo, pero un mal maestro.
Antonio Porchia -
I don't want people who are in poverty, in pain, or suffering, to suffer because it's for their own good and they can pull themselves up by their bootstraps. I want to help them. I want us all to help them.
Penn Jillette -
And so take away his work, which was his life [. . .] and all his glory and his great deeds? Make a child and a dotard of him? Keep him to myself at that cost? Make him so mine that he was no longer his?
C. S. Lewis -
Real serious waiting is done in waiting rooms, and what they all have in common is their purpose, or purposelessness, if you will; they are places for doing nothing and they have no life of their own. ... their one constant is what might be called a decorative rigor mortis.
Ada Louise Huxtable