Vernon Howard Quotes
Take disturbance as an awakening sign that you misunderstand something you assumed you understood.Vernon Howard
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I have spent a lot of time listening to people who are serving life sentences and getting to know them and the circumstances of their lives. I have never met anyone serving a long prison sentence who had anything close to what I could call a childhood; instead, the upbringings always - always - involve extreme situations of poverty and abuse.
Rachel Kushner -
I remain fascinated by where you go as a woman once you are a mother, and if you ever come back.
Rachel Cusk -
You can't always be in awe of someone's talent, living with them.
Yoko Ono -
I think much of what you learn as a kid comes before age seven.
J. B. Pritzker -
In my experience with print journalists, the distinction between remarks being uttered on- or off-the-record is held sacrosanct, but the distinction between truth and falsity sometimes isn't.
Sam Harris -
English has always had a special fondness for other European languages, a neighborly soft spot - perhaps because Britain has been invaded by speakers of those languages from the onset of its recorded history.
Rabih Alameddine
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They teach anything in universities today. You can major in mud pies.
Orson Welles -
In Russia we only had two TV channels. Channel One was propaganda. Channel Two consisted of a KGB officer telling you: Turn back at once to Channel One.
Yakov Smirnoff -
Just because you're born in a privileged family and have money doesn't mean you're happy. Happiness you can't buy. Happiness is something you need to work for.
Lapo Elkann -
I think, by nature, human beings are curious. And I think that's only amplified as an artist.
Haley Bennett -
Fortunately, I was still living in Los Angeles at the time. So I went out to World Gym and got a membership.
Warren Cuccurullo Duran Duran -
I only cook when I'm in love.
Zsa Zsa Gabor
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For me, just being published feels like success.
Samantha Shannon -
The poem is important, but not more than the people whose survival it serves...
Wendell Berry -
To wake the soul by tender strokes of art, To raise the genius, and to mend the heart; To make mankind, in conscious virtue bold, Live o'er each scene, and be what they behold: For this the Tragic Muse first trod the stage.
Alexander Pope -
...the dark brought out the prostitutes, Malay divorcees mostly, quietly moving from light to light, gaudy and graceful, like other of night’s creatures.
Anthony Burgess -
Political ideals must be based upon ideals for the individual life. The aim of politics should be to make the lives of individuals as good as possible.
Bertrand Russell -
The stony-minded orthodox were right in fearing the first movement of new knowledge and free thought. It has gone on, and will go on, irresistibly, until some day we shall have no respect for an alleged 'truth' which cannot stand the full blaze of knowledge, the full force of active thought.
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
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Our nature hardly allows us to have enough of anything without having too much.
George Savile, 1st Marquess of Halifax -
Everything happens the way it's supposed to because it's just like cavemen - you evolve and grow and learn.
Tionne Watkins TLC -
Take disturbance as an awakening sign that you misunderstand something you assumed you understood.
Vernon Howard