Raquel Welch Quotes

When I was 13, I saw him [Elvis] perform live and I suddenly understood what sex is all about. I was screaming at the top of my lungs.

Raquel Welch

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• Anonymity breeds meanness.

  

  Sam Altman
  • Anonymity
  • Meanness
  • Breeds

• Anything worth doing good takes a little chaos.

  

  Michael Peter Balzary Atoms for Peace
  • Chaos
  • Take
  • Worth

• I love reference books, especially collections of memorable quotations, world almanacs, and atlases. Facts to me are like candy or popcorn, small, tasty delights, and I like to gorge on them now and then.

  

  Walter Kirn
  • World
  • Like
  • Facts

• Goodness," Myrnin said quietly. "I don't think I should be watching this. I don't think I'm old enough.

  

  Rachel Caine
  • Goodness
  • Watching

• not wholly consciously, but not quite unconsciously, as far as I can remember, I determined to fashion my future as a sculptor his marble, and there was in it the same mixture of foresight and the unknown. The thing in the mind of the artist takes its way and imposes its form as it wakens under his hand. And so with life.

  

  Freya Stark
  • Life
  • Mind
  • Remember

• We had no faith in (Cook) whatever. He was not even good for a day's work, and the idea of his making such an astounding claim as having reached the Pole was so ludicrous that, after our laugh, we dropped the matter altogether.

  

  Matthew Henson
  • Work
  • Idea
  • Days

• This crippling of individuals I consider the worst evil of capitalism. Our whole educational system suffers from this evil. An exaggerated competitive attitude is inculcated into the student, who is trained to worship acquisitive success as a preparation for his future.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Future
  • Success
  • Evil

• ...to bring a child into existence without a fair prospect of being able, not only to provide food for its body, but instruction and training for its mind is a moral crime, both against the unfortunate offspring and against society.

  

  John Stuart Mill
  • Child
  • Existence
  • Moral Crime

• A general State education is a mere contrivance for moulding people to be exactly like one another, and as the mould in which it casts them is that which pleases the dominant power in the government.

  

  John Stuart Mill
  • People
  • Education
  • Government

• Marriage was contrived for ordinary people, for people who are capable of neither great love nor great friendship, which is to say, for most people--but also for those exceptionally rare ones who are capable of love as well as of friendship.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Marriage
  • Friendship
  • Ordinary People

• The world has made everything else and still it can't make peace. And the reason it can't make peace is because of the evil, ignorance and stupidity. I have songs that explain these facts. And that's the blues.

  

  Willie Dixon
  • Song
  • Evil
  • Ignorance

• The great model of the affection of love in human beings is the sentiment which subsists between parents and children.

  

  William Godwin
  • Children
  • Parent
  • Affection

• I wish the crowd to feel itself well treated, Especially since it lives and lets me live.

  

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • Live
  • Wish
  • Treated

• It's important for me to try to find new ways to express myself, but at the same time, have integrity, and still be me, and not lose myself in the midst of this crazy Rap that I'm in. It's important, it's critical, to just try things out. I think, mainly, it's just me being fearless, and not being afraid to conquer anything that comes in my path, I guess.

  

  Santiago Leyva
  • Thinking
  • Trying
  • Crazy

• “I felt my lungs inflate with the onrush of scenery—air, mountains, trees, people. I thought, "This is what it is to be happy.”

  

  Sylvia Plath
  • Feel
  • Be Happy
  • Lungs

• Everything in the world was in precarious balance, pure risk, and those who didn't agree to take the risk wasted away in a corner, without getting to know life. I understood suddenly why I hadn't had Nino, why Lila had had him. I wasn't capable of entrusting myself to true feelings. I didn't know how to be drawn beyond the limits. I didn't possess that emotional power that had driven Lila to do all she could to enjoy that day and that night. I stayed behind, waiting.

  

  Elena Ferrante
  • Risk
  • Feelings
  • Balance

• I haven't always acted or reacted in a way that made me proud, but I didn't make that same mistake twice, and I think that's what I love about adversity is that it always reminds me of what's really valuable in life.

  

  Sandra Bullock
  • Thinking
  • Proud
  • Mistake

• Who you are isn't tied solely to what you say, even though it may feel that way to you now.

  

  Diane Ackerman
  • May
  • Way
  • Feels

• When I was 13, I saw him [Elvis] perform live and I suddenly understood what sex is all about. I was screaming at the top of my lungs.

  

  Raquel Welch
  • Understood
  • Lungs