Winifred Holtby Quotes

We each live in a private, distorted, individual world - stars turning in space, warmed for a moment by each other's light, then lost in infinite distance.

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• People just decided I was an R&B artist because I'm black.

  

  Gallant
  • People
  • Black
  • Artist

• I didn't write the book to sell the book, but to tell my experiences.

  

  Larry Hagman
  • Book
  • Experiences
  • Sell

• You have to really prove yourself to young people, and if your answer is clear and consistent and loving - even if it's angry and disappointed - what's important is that you're being real and honest and not going anywhere.

  

  Vanessa Diffenbaugh
  • People
  • Important
  • Real

• I have been afraid of guns, I have sworn I would never use a gun on another person and so did not need one, and I have wanted to deny the existence of evil.

  

  Taya Kyle
  • Evil
  • Gun
  • Afraid

• I was a normal American nerd.

  

  Jack Herer
  • American
  • Normal
  • Nerd

• There are other ways of finding satisfaction, recipes for human happiness, enjoyment, dignified and meaningful, gratifying life, than increased consumption that increases production.

  

  Zygmunt Bauman
  • Life
  • Happiness
  • Meaningful

• Lara's done very well recently and I never had any doubts about the abilities of Lara or Waugh.

  

  Sachin Tendulkar
  • Done
  • Never
  • Doubts

• Brokenness is the operative issue of our time - broken souls, broken hearts, broken places.

  

  Samantha Power
  • Time
  • Broken
  • Places

• To say I'm the easiest person to live with would be a lie.

  

  Yancy Butler
  • Live
  • Say
  • Lie

• This society is driven by neurotic speed and force accelerated by greed and frustration of not being able to live up to the image of men and woman we have created for ourselves; the image has nothing to do with the reality of people.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • People
  • Up
  • Men

• All my friends started getting boyfriends, but I didn't want a boyfriend, I wanted a thirteen-colour biro.

  

  Victoria Wood
  • Friends
  • Want
  • Boyfriend

• Having an animal that you fix, knowing that you saved its life or you saved a pet - Like on a dog, these little kids will come, and their dog is just ready to die, and you do something, and they leave happy. The kids are happy, and the little puppy is licking your hand. Those are kind of neat feelings.

  

  Ted Yoho
  • Life
  • Kids
  • Happy

• Every day I do something that freaks me out.

  

  Gail Porter
  • Me
  • Day
  • Everyday

• Whoever has approved this idea of order, of the form of European, of English literature, will not find it preposterous that the past should be altered by the present as much as the present is directed by the past. And the poet who is aware of this will be aware of great difficulties and responsibilities.

  

  T. S. Eliot
  • Great
  • Past
  • Present

• Thunder on! Stride on! Democracy. Strike with vengeful stroke!

  

  Walt Whitman
  • Democracy

• If you are going to sin, sin against God, not the bureaucracy. God will forgive you but the bureaucracy won't.

  

  Hyman G. Rickover
  • God

• When you say your prayers try to understand

  

  Jon Bon Jovi

• This idea that you can't be an honest man and a Washington politician is a myth, a crock made up by sellouts and careerist hacks who don't stand for anything and are impatient with people who do. It's possible to do this job with honor and dignity.

  

  Matt Taibbi
  • People
  • Up
  • Job

• I have come to accept the real me. I have come to love the real me. I now celebrate the real me.

  

  Charice Pempengco
  • Real

• Thank you, horseradish, for being neither a radish nor a horse. What you are is a liar food.

  

  Jimmy Fallon
  • Food
  • Horse
  • Liar

• Do you not know that King Kong the first was just three foot six inches tall? He only came up to Faye Wray's belly button! If God could do the tricks that we can do he'd be a happy man!

  

  Peter O'Toole
  • Firsts
  • Feet
  • Kings

• I was going to be a doctor since I was three, so I was pre-med in college. Everything I did, every class I took, pointed toward the 'holy M.D.' Friends were taking wine-tasting classes, studying human sexuality, or redefining their views of the world in poli-sci, and I was memorizing anatomy and crying over o-chem.

  

  Yael Cohen
  • World
  • Friends
  • College

• What has kept the world safe from the bomb since 1945 has not been deterrence, in the sense of fear of specific weapons, so much as it's been memory. The memory of what happened at Hiroshima.

  

  John Hersey
  • World
  • Fear

• We each live in a private, distorted, individual world - stars turning in space, warmed for a moment by each other's light, then lost in infinite distance.

  

  Winifred Holtby
  • World
  • Distance
  • Private