Ann Zwinger Quotes

Dryness promotes the formation of flower buds...flowering is, after all, not an aesthetic contribution, but a survival mechanism.

Ann Zwinger

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• I would say the secret is to be enthusiastic about everything that comes into your life. To care, to care about people. To be excited about everything that comes close to you. I love to read. And I love to write, mostly.

  

  Fay Wray
  • People
  • Life
  • Care

• It's pretty funny, just driving by in a cab, and you see a huge billboard of yourself on the side of a hotel, like a 100-by-100 poster hanging up.

  

  Patrick Kane
  • Up
  • Pretty
  • Funny

• My mother giving birth to me was just like Lady Sybil giving birth, except that there wasn't such a tragic ending.

  

  Jack Whitehall
  • Mother
  • Giving
  • Ending

• A laugh costs too much when bought at the expense of virtue.

  

  Quintilian
  • Virtue
  • Laugh
  • Too Much

• I eat the same foods almost every day. I have my favorites like Filipino beef broth, chicken soup with lots and lots of rice.

  

  Manny Pacquiao
  • Day
  • Same
  • Soup

• When my husband and I first got married, I was so shocked at my own level of joy that I was convinced it was all going to come crashing down.

  

  Taylor Jenkins Reid
  • Joy
  • Husband
  • First

• I awake with a not entirely sickened knowledge that I am merely young again and in a funny way at peace, an observer who is aware of time's chariot, aware that some metamorphosis has occurred.

  

  Harold Brodkey
  • Time
  • Knowledge
  • Funny

• My middle finger won't go down, how do I wave?

  

  Eminem
  • Down
  • Middle
  • Wave

• «We have to manufacture machines that allow us to continue manufacturing machines, because what machines will never do is to manufacture machines in turn.»

  

  Mariano Rajoy

• I haven't had an alcoholic drink in 22 years, but when I did drink I'd go for either Canadian whisky or Budweiser. Sometimes both. For a long time I used to think 'Hey you, get off the floor!' was my name.

  

  Alice Cooper
  • Time
  • Long

• No one believes for a moment the embargo will prompt the Iraqi people to rise against Saddam Hussein.

  

  Alexander Cockburn
  • People

• That there is pain and evil, is no ruleThat I should make it greater, like a fool.

  

  Leigh Hunt
  • Pain
  • Evil
  • Fool

• Fear arises sooner than anything else.

  

  Leonardo da Vinci
  • Fear

• Well, all the plays that I was trying to write … were plays that would grab an audience by the throat and not release them, rather than presenting an emotion which you could observe and walk away from.

  

  Arthur Miller
  • Trying

• The man who doesn’t fear, doesn’t live long. I fear everything.

  

  Leigh Brackett
  • Long
  • Live
  • Fear

• Indifference, to me, is the epitome of evil.

  

  Elie Wiesel
  • Evil

• My favorite actors are people who I don't know anything about, and I can project any character onto them.

  

  Matt Bomer
  • People
  • Character

• My mother didn't want me to be in fashion. She was in the fashion business, so was my brother, and she thought it was too crazy for me. She wanted me to be married with children, to be independent, yes, but not to have a crazy life.

  

  Donatella Versace
  • Life
  • Children
  • She

• Such evidence is not the only kind which produces belief; though positivism maintains that it is the only kind which ought to produce so high a degree of confidence as all minds have or can be made to have through their agreements.

  

  Chauncey Wright
  • High
  • Confidence

• If humans are not required to earn a living to be provided survival needs, many are going to want very much to be productive, but not at those tasks they did not choose to do but were forced to accept in order to earn money. Instead, humans will spontaneously take upon themselves those tasks that world society really needs to have done.

  

  R. Buckminster Fuller
  • World
  • Money
  • Done

• I remember the general anxiety of teenager, and I remember establishing some sort of appearance based on what my peers would think. And cliques, oh my God, the worst. The worst!

  

  Eden Sher
  • God
  • Remember
  • Think

• La pena humana, durmiendo, no tiene forma. Si la despiertan, toma la forma de quien la despierta,

  

  Antonio Porchia

• To balance China, the democracies will need new friends - and India with its fast-growing economy, youthful population, and democratic politics seems the obvious candidate.

  

  David Frum
  • Friends
  • Growing
  • Balance

• Dryness promotes the formation of flower buds...flowering is, after all, not an aesthetic contribution, but a survival mechanism.

  

  Ann Zwinger
  • Survival
  • Flowering
  • Dryness