Minna Antrim Quotes

When a woman is very, very bad, she is awful, but when a man is correspondingly good, he is weird.

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• I was doing a scene in a medical tent in 18th-century battle dress, pantaloons and a ripped shirt, and the guy from the crew kept asking me if I was OK, if I was too cold. I told him, 'Are you kidding? I'm from Wales!'

  

  Owain Yeoman
  • Guy
  • Cold
  • Battle

• I like to escape; I like to write when I go on a walk - I'm kind of very fairy that way. I get inspired by the wind. Or when I daydream, that's when I write.

  

  Imelda May
  • Kind
  • Inspired
  • Wind

• There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world, and that is an idea whose time as come.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Time
  • World
  • Stronger

• If you fire people, you fire customers.

  

  Ferdinand Piech
  • People
  • Business
  • Fire

• Literature - Eastern and Western - abounds with stories, myths, legends about the search for youth, for eternal life.

  

  F. Sionil Jose
  • Life
  • Literature
  • Search

• There is no health without mental health; mental health is too important to be left to the professionals alone, and mental health is everyone's business.

  

  Vikram Patel
  • Important
  • Business
  • Alone

• Thank God I never lost that childlike innocence and the purity of vision and naivete. …That childlike innocence was most useful, because if I was a bit wiser, I wouldn't have been able to do anything, perhaps. So I'm glad I was not smart.

  

  Imelda Marcos
  • God
  • Lost
  • Vision

• Heu quantum scelus est in viscera viscera condiingestoque avidum pinguescere corpore corpusalteriusque animans animantis vivere leto!Scilicet in tantis opibus, quas, optima matrum,terra parit, nil te nisi tristia mandere saevovulnera dente iuvat ritusque referre Cyclopum,nec, nisi perdideris alium, placare voraciset male morati poteris ieiunia ventris!

  

  Ovid

• Years of love have been forgotIn the hatred of a minute.

  

  Edgar Allan Poe

• 'I think, George,' says Merion, ' the trouble is that you don't have a conflict model of society.'

  

  Malcolm Bradbury
  • Society
  • Model

• He wanted to be who he was, not the person he would become if he lost the one trait that distinguished him from everybody else, no matter how perverse that decision seemed to others.

  

  Iain Banks
  • Lost
  • Decision

• I didn't become one.. .As long as I can remember I've always been one.

  

  Claude Monet
  • Long
  • Remember

• Information's pretty thin stuff unless mixed with experience.

  

  Clarence Day
  • Experience
  • Pretty

• Nations without a past are contradictions in terms. What makes a nation is the past, what justifies one nation against others is the past, and historians are the people who produce it.

  

  Eric Hobsbawm
  • People
  • Past

• In restaurants in my Brooklyn neighborhood, I always ask for a doggie bag to bring the leftovers home.

  

  Alek Wek
  • Home

• Good actions ennoble us, we are the sons of our own deeds.

  

  Jean Paul
  • Good

• I seem to get motivated a few months at a time, and then something stressful breaks the routine, and I just fold.

  

  Chris Farley
  • Time
  • Motivated

• My father wanted me to be a dentist like him, or any doctor, really. There was this attitude of, 'The civil rights movement was not about you being an artist.'

  

  Amy Sherald
  • Father
  • Attitude

• I'm an artist, and I'm part of every decision in a movie.

  

  Pedro Almodovar
  • Movie
  • Decision

• The problem is that they are all stars at Madrid. You need someone to carry the water to the well.

  

  Diego Maradona
  • Water

• You could not receive a young man in your room; you might be permitted to have him to tea in one of the public reception rooms, but you could accept no invitation from young men to tea or other entertainment without a chaperone from the College.

  

  Dora Russell
  • Men
  • College
  • Tea

• The railroads are not run for the benefit of the dear public. That cry is nonsense. They are built for men who invest their money and expect to get a fair percentage of the same.

  

  William Henry Vanderbilt
  • Men
  • Money
  • Invest

• Golf's for everybody.

  

  Stephen Curry
  • Everybody
  • Golf`s

• When a woman is very, very bad, she is awful, but when a man is correspondingly good, he is weird.

  

  Minna Antrim
  • Men
  • Awful