Vita Sackville-West Quotes

Prose is a poor thing, a poor inadequate thing, compared with poetry which says so much more in shorter time.

Vita Sackville-West

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• You come to work and you laugh all day, you go home and you feel light and there's a certain feeling when you're sitting with the audience and they leave after 90 minutes and it's just pure escapism and they're happy.

  

  Gabrielle Union
  • Work
  • Home
  • Happy

• I believe that we are at a very low level of consciousness, and we do not know how to treat each other as human beings. We are caught up in our own lives, our own needs, our own ego gratification. I feel a strong sense of responsibility in delivering that message.

  

  Madonna Breakfast Club
  • Up
  • Believe
  • Strong

• With legitimate journalists I've always had a great time - I've never gone out of my way to court the press. That's probably cost me some money, but I've always had the respect of my peers.

  

  Val Kilmer
  • Time
  • Great
  • Money

• The very first role I ever played was as a 17-year old South African girl who dreamed of being a star and left home to meet her mother in the big city so that she could pursue that dream. I left South Africa and met my mother in Vancouver and not long after that was given the opportunity to perform on the stage and have people chant my name.

  

  Kandyse McClure
  • People
  • Long
  • Home

• Even someone who works with me, like this girl who works with me, her name is Sue. She lives with me and holds the fort; she takes care of all these little things. She takes care of the money situation, and I would not be able to live without someone like that.

  

  Caprice Bourret
  • Live
  • Money
  • She

• The thing is, if I ever found a guy I could fall in love with, I'd want to marry him and have his children. And that scares me to death because I think I'm a whole bunch of crazy, and I always worry that a guy will walk away once he really, truly knows me.

  

  Cara Delevingne
  • Children
  • Love
  • Guy

• When I was a kid, they used to say, 'Oh man, you don't ever wanna leave New York.' I don't ever want to stay in New York!

  

  Mandy Patinkin
  • Want
  • Man
  • New York

• I was a journalist. I was a drummer. I was everything. I didn't know what the heck I was. But with Jack Paar, the job was very specific - no confusion. You came in each day. You wrote five pages of jokes. You handed the pages in... The pressure was to write five pages of jokes every day. I did it, and I thought, 'This is what I like to do.'

  

  Garry Marshall
  • Job
  • Day
  • Thought

• An eating disorder epidemic suggests that love and disgust are being jointly marketed, as it were; that wherever the proposition might first have come from, the unacceptability of the female body has been disseminated culturally.

  

  Rachel Cusk
  • Love
  • Body
  • Female

• I've long thought that for my last meal on earth I will be perfectly happy with a granary loaf toastie with melted crunchy peanut butter and banana.

  

  Tamsin Greig
  • Long
  • Happy
  • Earth

• I hadn't worked for a couple of years so I thought it would be nice to earn some money and pay the bills.

  

  Gary Oldman
  • Money
  • Nice
  • Couple

• Without a dog, you'd never have anyone demonstrate how important it is to stop every day and smell the roses... and then lift your leg on them.

  

  W. Bruce Cameron
  • Important
  • Stop
  • Day

• The International Girl Crew isn't supposed to be super exclusive - that's a really important part of our brand and message. It's not just our crew - it's a lifestyle. It's for everybody to know how empowering it is to be surrounded by friends who motivate and support you and who you feel like you can exchange ideas with and do projects with.

  

  Paloma Elsesser
  • Important
  • Friends
  • Girl

• I used to keep injuries to myself. It would just make it worse and worse. Now I'm having none of that.

  

  Katarina Johnson-Thompson
  • Myself
  • Now
  • Injuries

• Nora Roberts, Stephen King, Lee Child and George R. R. Martin write wildly different books. Their writing, plotting and styles have little or nothing in common. But they all write books and characters that readers find appealing.

  

  M. J. Rose
  • Different
  • Writing
  • Child

• One reason I do the live shows - and the monthly speeches at public radio stations - is to remind myself that people hear the show, that it has an audience, that it exists in the world. It's so easy to forget that.

  

  Ira Glass
  • People
  • World
  • Live

• All those who seek to destroy the liberties of a democratic nation ought to know that war is the surest and shortest means to accomplish it.

  

  Alexis de Tocqueville
  • War

• We are built for the valley, for the ordinary stuff we are in, and that is where we have to prove our mettle.

  

  Oswald Chambers
  • Stuff
  • Built
  • Valley

• The human condition can be summed up in a drop of blood. Show me a teaspoon of blood and I will reveal to thee the ineffable nature of the cosmos, naked and squirming. Squirming. Funny how the truth always seems to do that when you shine a light on it.

  

  Laird Barron
  • Up
  • Truth
  • Nature

• People like to put you in a little box, and that's where they are comfortable with you being.

  

  Ricki-Lee Coulter
  • People
  • Comfortable
  • Where

• No man has ever gone through the crisis of deliberately making Jesus Lord and found Him to be a failure.

  

  Oswald Chambers
  • Man
  • Jesus
  • Failure

• If your every human plan and calculation has miscarried, if, one by one, human props have been knocked out, and doors have shut in your face, take heart. God is trying to get a message through to you, and the message is: "Stop depending on inadequate human resources. Let me handle the matter.".

  

  Catherine Marshall
  • Trying
  • Heart
  • Faces

• Prose is a poor thing, a poor inadequate thing, compared with poetry which says so much more in shorter time.

  

  Vita Sackville-West
  • Poor
  • Prose
  • Inadequate