Virginia Woolf Quotes
Nothing shakes my opinion of a book. Nothing -- nothing. Only perhaps if it's the book of a young person -- or of a friend -- no, even so, I think myself infallible.
Quotes to Explore
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The American people need to tell their member of Congress that we need a strong defense to protect us and to prevent wars. We can't get away with simply leading from behind and gutting our defenses.
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When I was in high school in the early 1970s, we knew we were running out of oil; we knew that easy sources were being capped; we knew that diversifying would be much better; we knew that there were terrible dictators and horrible governments that we were enriching who hated us. We knew all that and we did really nothing.
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Once every five hundred years or so, a summary statement about poetry comes along that we can't imagine ourselves living without.
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Perfect partners don't exist. Perfect conditions exist for a limited time in which partnerships express themselves best.
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It goes without saying that it's hard to attain a certain level of success.
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My original idea was to produce and not make records myself.
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There is no peace because the making of peace is at least as costly as the making of war - at least as exigent, at least as disruptive, at least as liable to bring disgrace and prison and death in its wake.
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A dinosaur out of context is like a character without a story. Worse than that, the character suffers from amnesia.
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I'm called a terrorist in the Arab media still today.
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You do a show to be a hit and hopefully run a couple of years.
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I've always tried to be fair, even-handed, not an advocate for any group.
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Power can shape 'truth,' but not forever.
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The good news was that Enterprise and the newly arrived Yorktown had attacked the Marshall and Gilbert islands. Those attacks had a great effect on morale.
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I always want to become better. If never being satisfied is a problem, then I have it. At least it's a good problem.
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The interpretation of our reality through patterns not our own, serves only to make us ever more unknown, ever less free, ever more solitary.
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The point of jazz is, you do something and then you go on.
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Kirmizi biber has a sweet aroma and can vary in spiciness.
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Youth is really in your attitude, not in what you look like.
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I always want to create and do things, or draw.
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We came to realise - first with astonishment, then bitterness, and finally with indifference - that intellect apparently wasn't the most important thing...not ideas, but the system; not freedom, but drill. We had joined up with enthusiasm and with good will; but they did everything to knock that out of us.
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Reading was such a formative part of my childhood (along with 'Loony Tunes'), that it is difficult to pin point the most influential book. But, under an interrogation light I would probably have to say 'Jane Eyre' by Charlotte Bronte.
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A woman over 30 will never wake you in the middle of the night to ask, "What are you thinking?". She doesn't care what you think.
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Every country possesses, it seems, the sort of cuisine it deserves, which is to say the sort of cuisine it is appreciative enough to want. I used to think that the notoriously bad cooking of the English was an example to the contrary, and that the English cook the way they do because, through sheer technical deficiency, they had not been able to master the art of cooking. I have discovered to my stupefaction that the English cook that way because that is the way they like it.
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Nothing shakes my opinion of a book. Nothing -- nothing. Only perhaps if it's the book of a young person -- or of a friend -- no, even so, I think myself infallible.
