Aimee Friedman Quotes

I watched the land for as long as I could, until it disappeared behind its shawl of mist, and until I had it fixed in my mind - unchanged, mysterious and beautiful.

Aimee Friedman

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• I'm too self-serious for a comedy.

  

  Damien Chazelle
  • Comedy
  • Serious
  • Too

• The goal seems to me at times just to be business first.

  

  Laura Linney
  • Business
  • Me
  • Goal

• You think you would react one way when a situation develops and, and when the sharp shells are flying, you don't quite stand up like you think you might.

  

  Walter Cronkite
  • Up
  • Flying
  • Stand

• 'Wicked' gave us a story that 'The Wizard of Oz' did not. Two sides to every story.

  

  Abbi Glines
  • Story
  • Two
  • Sides

• Anti-Semitism has not disappeared, and European Jews have too often come under attack.

  

  Federica Mogherini
  • Jews
  • Often
  • Anti-Semitism

• In 1990, when I had just arrived in New York City as a wet-behind-the-ears 20-something girl from Arizona, I spent a year or more working as the personal secretary and secret ghostwriter to an American-born countess in her apartment on the Upper East Side.

  

  Kate Christensen
  • American
  • Girl
  • City

• Wine is something to enjoy. We get sick and tired of people who pick it apart and talk about its 'saucy nuances.'

  

  Pat Paulsen
  • People
  • Enjoy
  • Tired

• Because I was always a fat child, I got fatter and fatter, and I ended up 18 stone and with a 40-inch waist.

  

  Rafe Spall
  • Up
  • Child
  • Fat

• All in all, I think Kazan is Russia's sportiest city after Moscow, leaving all the others far behind.

  

  Marat Safin
  • Think
  • City
  • Leaving

• Creative writers are always greater than the causes that they represent.

  

  E. M. Forster
  • Always
  • Creative
  • Causes

• I suppose society is wonderfully delightful. To be in it is merely a bore. But to be out of it is simply a tragedy.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Society
  • Tragedy
  • Delightful

• A titled leader relies heavily on positional power to get things done; a natural leader is able to mobilize others without the whip of formal authority.

  

  Gary Hamel
  • Done
  • Power
  • Leader

• It's my job to know what's available from every retailer, catalog, website, antiques mall, and craftsperson. A good designer or decorator has to have an almost encyclopedic knowledge.

  

  Nate Berkus
  • Good
  • Job
  • Knowledge

• I'm no model lady. A model's just an imitation of the real thing.

  

  Mae West
  • Real
  • Model
  • Lady

• According to God's word, we haven't done a very good job concerning our little ones, nor our teens.

  

  Vanity
  • Good
  • God
  • Done

• These palms are driving me crazy; the motifs are extremely difficult to seize, to put on canvas; it's so bushy everywhere, although delightful to the eye.. .I would like to do orange and lemon trees silhouetted against the blue sea, but cannot find them as I would like.

  

  Claude Monet
  • Crazy
  • Sea
  • Blue

• We have found a strange foot-print on the shores of the unknown. We have devised profound theories, one after another, to account for its origins. At last, we have succeeded in reconstructing the creature that made the footprint. And lo! It is our own.

  

  Arthur Eddington
  • Profound
  • Unknown

• We serve Him most who take the most of His exhaustless love.

  

  Alice Cary

• The true value of a human being is determined primarily by the measure and the sense in which he has attained to liberation from the self.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • True
  • Value
  • Sense

• I've backpacked to countries like Italy and Turkey and observed beautiful scenery, but then I realized that beauty was always very close to me. It is here in Belitung Island, where the rivers, beaches and the terrain captivate my attention most.

  

  Andrea Hirata
  • Beautiful
  • Attention

• Since the adjournment of Congress the ratifications of the treaty with Great Britain for abolishing the mixed courts for the suppression of the slave trade have been exchanged. It is believed that the slave trade is now confined to the eastern coast of Africa, whence the slaves are taken to Arabian markets.

  

  Ulysses S. Grant
  • Great
  • Taken

• April is the cruelest month, breeding lilacs out of the dead land, mixing memory and desire, stirring dull roots with spring rain.

  

  T. S. Eliot
  • Desire
  • Memories
  • Spring

• My books are easy to read. No folderol.

  

  Clive Cussler

• I watched the land for as long as I could, until it disappeared behind its shawl of mist, and until I had it fixed in my mind - unchanged, mysterious and beautiful.

  

  Aimee Friedman
  • Mind
  • Mysterious
  • Land