Vita Sackville-West Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
The most inspiring objects are books. I have about 5,000 volumes in my home library. It's an unending source of visuals and ideas.
Maira Kalman
-
I sometimes read in a gossip column that I was at a party when I was in Europe at the time. It sometimes feels I've got a Doppelganger somewhere.
Candace Bushnell
-
Escapism makes a lot of intuitive sense - whisk people away from their cares with stories of a better life.
Adam Cohen
-
Would I describe myself as new Labour? I'm Labour, organised Labour. I think labels have a limited use and that's where you really get into boy stuff sometimes, just sticking on labels.
Frances O'Grady
-
I'm a big collector of vinyl - I have a record room in my house - and I've always had a huge soundtrack album collection. So what I do, as I'm writing a movie, is go through all those songs, trying to find good songs for fights, or good pieces of music to layer into the film.
Quentin Tarantino
-
I certainly have a pretty settled pattern at this point of what I do substantively in terms of reviewing briefs, record materials, cases, etc.
Patricia Millett
-
That's one of the great things about comedy: we can - and should - say the things that other people aren't supposed to say. If we didn't do that, if we didn't push against those limits, we'd just be standing around onstage and yelling.
Zach Galifianakis
-
To be honest, I owned one suit before I filmed 'Mad Men' - the one suit that you have to have as an adult. Outside of that, I never really felt comfortable in a suit.
Aaron Staton
-
The South is brutalized to a degree not realized by its own inhabitants, and the very foundation of government, law and order, are imperilled.
Ida B. Wells
-
When I paint, I definitely live in the present, like someone in a shower whistling or singing.
Orhan Pamuk
-
Who does understand life?
Ian Mckellen
-
A certain administration which I won't call by name took the arts out of the schools, and that left the brothers out on the street with nothing, so they went to the turntables and started rhyming. Then they had a way to express themselves, and that's the birth of hip-hop.
Isaac Hayes
-
Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.
Edmund Burke
-
I get some of my ideas from watching my three daughters, but most of them come from my own memories of growing up. I can remember how romantic I was, not just about love, but romance in the classic sense - the romantic ideals: of honor and truth, of loyalty, sacrifice and fairness. Those were the elements that made a story satisfying to me.
Francine Pascal
-
The global realignment is accelerating the migration of growth and wealth dynamics from the industrial world to the larger emerging economies.
Mohamed El-Erian
-
I have to say when a man lives for himself, it's hard to live with him. That's pretty much the story of all my divorces. I've been making records since I was 22 and done things my way, and it's hard for me to compromise. And of course, to have a successful relationship, one has to compromise. Sometimes I'm not good at it.
John Mellencamp
-
What fun it would be to be poor, as long as one was excessively poor! Anything in excess is most exhilarating.
Jean Anouilh
-
Growth is exciting; growth is dynamic and alarming.
Vita Sackville-West
