Anna Kavan Quotes

I know I've got a death wish. I've never enjoyed my life, I've never liked people. I love the mountains because they are the negation of life, indestructible, inhuman, untouchable, indifferent, as I want to be.

Anna Kavan

• Life
• Death
• Mountains

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• It was my mother's idea. Her feeling was that I didn't have the intelligence to pick a trade myself.

  

  Vidal Sassoon
  • Mother
  • Feeling
  • Myself

• The poorer people and criminals of Mexico who are not very religious but not quite atheists, either, worship Saint Death.

  

  Karl Pilkington
  • People
  • Death
  • Religious

• I just felt that you can't have a character fall in love so madly as they did in the last movie and not finish it off, understand it, get some closure. That's why the movie is called 'Quantum of Solace' - that's exactly what he's looking for.

  

  Daniel Craig
  • Character
  • Understand
  • Felt

• The notion that female initiative is useless because men know what they want is particularly odd - most people don't even know what they want for dinner.

  

  Katha Pollitt
  • People
  • Men
  • Dinner

• I love figure skating and what I am able to express creatively. I want to leave a legacy in the sport.

  

  Patrick Chan
  • Legacy
  • Sport
  • Creatively

• Science fiction writers have usually been very poor prognosticators of the future, either in literary or technological terms, and that's because we're all too human and, I think, have the tendency to see what we want to or, in the case of those more paranoid, what we fear.

  

  L. E. Modesitt
  • Future
  • Science
  • Fear

• In business, every phase of things counts. Companies that just yell out a low price today to win business aren't going to make money in the long term.

  

  Zhang Jindong
  • Long
  • Money
  • Business

• Sometimes people talk about music, whether blogs or magazines, in a strange way where it doesn't seem like they're actually listening to it.

  

  Victoria Legrand Beach House
  • People
  • Music
  • Listening

• Showbiz can be cruel.

  

  Nadia Bjorlin
  • Cruel
  • Showbiz

• My only friends were boys, and I was just one more of them.

  

  Victoria Abril
  • Friends
  • More
  • Just

• Libraries are at a cultural crossroads. Some proffer that libraries as we know them may go away altogether, ironic victims of the information age where Google has subverted Dewey decimal and researchers can access anything on a handheld device. Who needs to venture deep into the stacks when answers are but a click away?

  

  Sam Weller
  • May
  • Age
  • Deep

• I always have the feeling in these low states that something good is about to happen. That's when I feel the fullest, the rawest, the closest to myself.

  Nastassja Kinski
  • Good
  • Feeling
  • Myself

• Health care providers, saving lives daily in our emergency rooms, live with federal mandates.

  

  Barbara Ann Radnofsky
  • Live
  • Health
  • Daily

• On inspection, Gaudi's architecture isn't whimsical at all.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Architecture
  • Inspection

• I've had good times and bad times. That's me. That's how I am.

  

  Marat Safin
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Times

• I was very proud to be at 'The Wall Street Journal'. I have nothing bad to say about it. I had a great run there. In what turned out to be the final years of my tenure there, 'AllThingsD' occupied me more and more and was much more fun.

  

  Walt Mossberg
  • Great
  • Bad
  • Fun

• Since I started in Nascar, popularity has definitely gone up. I've become more attractive and helpful to companies that are looking for spokespersons. So from that perspective, things are going really well.

  

  Danica Patrick
  • Up
  • Perspective
  • More

• Existence of Isvara follows our conception of Isvara. Let us first know whose concept He is. The concept will be only according to the one who conceives. Find out who you are and the other problem will solve itself.

  

  Ramana Maharshi

• 'Yes,' he said, 'intelligence does enable you to deny facts you dislike. But your denial doesn’t matter. A cancer growing in someone’s body will go on growing in spite of denial. And a complex combination of genes that work together to make you intelligent as well as hierarchical will still handicap you whether you acknowledge it or not.'

  

  Octavia E. Butler
  • Work
  • Together
  • Growing

• I do what I love and what I always dreamed of doing for a living. I write love stories, and I have always had a publisher willing to publish them. I have a sizable and loyal audience. I have made best-seller lists and won awards. What more could anyone ask for?

  

  Mary Balogh

• If I was a fan of someone as a teenager, then it's OK for me to feel completely in awe when I meet them.

  

  Alex Kapranos Franz Ferdinand
  • Teenager

• I feel that we, as Indians, have a knack for loving a stereotypical, sobbing, sympathy-seeking personality. I feel that we need to promote quirky, cool and youthful talent. We have to stop propagating the sob-story angle of celebs, where they try to be larger-than-life. That is very outdated. It is so boring that it puts you to sleep.

  

  Kangana Ranaut
  • Life
  • Stop
  • Cool

• I love rehearsing; it's the best part of the job.

  

  Natasha Little
  • Job
  • Best
  • Part

• I know I've got a death wish. I've never enjoyed my life, I've never liked people. I love the mountains because they are the negation of life, indestructible, inhuman, untouchable, indifferent, as I want to be.

  

  Anna Kavan
  • Life
  • Death
  • Mountains