Adah Isaacs Menken Quotes

There is a graveyard in my poor heart - dark, heaped-up graves, from which no flowers spring.

Adah Isaacs Menken

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• I always do my interviews face to face.

  

  Rachel Weisz
  • Always
  • Face
  • Interviews

• I'd realize it's not worth our time to worry. You do your best, and God will put the right people in your path.

  

  Taya Kyle
  • People
  • Time
  • God

• If we lose sight of the fact that writing is entertainment, then writing is doomed.

  

  T. C. Boyle
  • Writing
  • Lose
  • Sight

• Too many trees are killed to print the words of people who may not have all that much to say, and authors and journalists are equally culpable in this regard.

  

  Vikram Seth
  • People
  • May
  • Words

• He who talks more is sooner exhausted.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • More
  • Exhausted
  • Sooner

• I hate to be a failure. I hate and regret the failure of my marriages. I would gladly give all my millions for just one lasting marital success.

  

  J. Paul Getty
  • Success
  • Hate
  • Failure

• I don't really get to see a lot of other comedians, because I work with the same people all the time. The guy I really like is Nick DiPaulo. I love Nick DiPaulo, but again, he's a buddy of mine. But I liked him for a long time. I liked him before he was a buddy of mine.

  

  Larry the Cable Guy
  • People
  • Time
  • Work

• The reward of a thing well done is having done it.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Done
  • Reward
  • Well Done

• Courage is doing what you are afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you are scared.

  

  Eddie Rickenbacker
  • Courage
  • Doing
  • Afraid

• Pushing people forward simply because of their colour, irrespective of merit, would be most unfortunate and would of course lead to disaster. It would mean that Rhodesia would then develop into a kind of banana republic where the country would in no time be bankrupt.

  

  Ian Smith
  • People
  • Time
  • Country

• O Man, as long as you exist, know, have, and cherish, You have not been delivered, believe me, of your burden.

  

  Angelus Silesius
  • Believe
  • Long

• I'm sure the universe is full of intelligent life. It's just been too intelligent to come here.

  

  Arthur C. Clarke
  • Life
  • Universe
  • Intelligent

• 59: In English every word can be verbed. Would that it were so in our programming languages.

  

  Alan Perlis
  • English

• He loved his country as no other man has loved her; but no man deserved less at her hands.

  

  Edward Everett Hale
  • Country

• I was an office secretary for a long time. A good secretary.

  

  Laurie Metcalf
  • Time
  • Good
  • Long

• If you're losing your soul and you know it, then you've still got a soul left to lose.

  

  Charles Bukowski
  • Soul

• It's the ultimate pinnacle of stand-up to have an hour on HBO, but way more people see Comedy Central, and they've been good to me.

  

  Daniel Tosh
  • People
  • Up
  • Good

• Since the beginning of time, children have not liked to study. They would much rather play, and if you have their interests at heart, you will let them learn while they play; they will find that what they have mastered is child's play.

  

  Carl Orff
  • Time
  • Children
  • Heart

• In my heart, I'm confident I could make a good president.

  

  Joe Biden
  • Good
  • Heart

• At my age, and in my circumstances, what sinister object, or personal emolument had I to seek after, in this life? The growing infirmities of age and the increasing love of retirement, daily confirm my decided predilection for domestic life: and the great Searcher of human hearts is my witness, that I have no wish, which aspires beyond the humble and happy lot of living and dying a private citizen on my own farm.

  

  George Washington
  • Heart
  • Age
  • Wish

• I still can’t believe [ Muhammad Ali ] knows my name. It astounds me he knows who I am. I first met Ali in 1976. I was locked up in a juvenile home and he came to visit. I’ve never forgotten it.

  

  Mike Tyson
  • Believe
  • Forgotten
  • Astounds

• There is a graveyard in my poor heart - dark, heaped-up graves, from which no flowers spring.

  

  Adah Isaacs Menken
  • Heart
  • Flowers
  • Graves