Vita Sackville-West Quotes
I do not like January very much. It is too stationary. Not enough happens. I like the evidences of life, and in January there are too few of them.Vita Sackville-West
Quotes to Explore
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President Reagan stood for conservative principles in a way that brought people together.
Ted Cruz -
Nerves are good. They keep you alive.
Idina Menzel -
Effective satire has to be almost identical to the subject that it is skewering.
T. J. Miller -
No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave.
Calvin Coolidge -
Well-run libraries are filled with people because what a good library offers cannot be easily found elsewhere: an indoor public space in which you do not have to buy anything in order to stay.
Zadie Smith -
These days, with 'American Idol' and all the other reality shows, young people become famous overnight, and that can be very difficult to handle, the way photographers follow you around and study your every move.
Barry Manilow
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My first job was with an auto plant, Kansas City - they treated you like slaves. From there I went back to Chicago, worked in steel mills, drove a cab, stuff like that.
Ed Asner -
Industrialization starts with the formation of capital - it does not matter how. It can be created by saving, by the state enforcing its will on the people, by the very rich themselves.
F. Sionil Jose -
I just developed my act way back in the late '80s. I went to college in Georgia, so I picked up the Southern accent. I talked like that with my friends all the time, because it was fun. It was funny... All my friends were real Southern. We're buddies, so I'd say stuff to make them laugh. So that was pretty much it.
Larry the Cable Guy -
I'm trying to equalise the world to say there is no high and low.
Dan Colen -
Internet journalism is not a world we know very well at all. It's conducted more on the screen and less in bars, which makes it rather less useful for getting stories about people throwing up over one another, which is what one's after.
Ian Hislop -
I went through my entire athletic life as a basketball player with only minimal physical setbacks, the worst being a couple of brain concussions, one in a college game in 1948, the other in 1954 while playing in the Eastern League, from which I recovered without permanent damage.
Jack Ramsay
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The path of social advancement is, and must be, strewn with broken friendships.
H. G. Wells -
I just don't watch a lot of TV.
Patrick Wilson -
A completely disrespectful photographer was asked to stop taking photographs, and then said, 'I've got what I want. What are you going to do about it?' How would you feel if somebody walked up and started taking your photograph? I don't think you'd be very happy.
Gabriel Byrne -
Always carry a flagon of whiskey in case of snakebite and furthermore always carry a small snake.
W. C. Fields -
It is possible in this world to be pretty and funny and successful all at the same time.
Olivia Munn -
Oddly enough, I've always really loved Nightcrawler. You know who else they didn't use enough was Phoenix. I just thought her story line was so tragic. I was just really drawn to that character as well.
J. August Richards
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I’ve never been in analysis. But it’s rare that one saves oneself from a rickety landing at the top of a building by throwing oneself down the stairwell.
Elena Ferrante -
Nowadays you can't be loud enough!
John Henry Bonham Band of Joy -
Picture yourself during the early 1920's inside the dome of the Mount Wilson Observatory. ... Humason is showing Shapley stars he had found in the Andromeda Nebula that appeared and disappeared on photographs of that object. The famous astronomer very patiently explains that these objects could not be stars because the Nebula was a nearby gaseous cloud within our own Milky Way system. Shapley takes his handkerchief from his pocket and wipes the identifying marks off the back of the photographic plate.
Halton Arp -
My parents taught me never to judge others based on whom they love, what color their skin is, or their religion.
Taylor Swift -
I do not like January very much. It is too stationary. Not enough happens. I like the evidences of life, and in January there are too few of them.
Vita Sackville-West