Imelda Marcos Quotes
I was born ostentatious. They will list my name in the dictionary someday. They will use 'Imeldific' to mean ostentatious extravagance.
Quotes to Explore
-
Weakness is something we don't like to admit we have. We hold it against people, until we experience it, and then we feel more compassion for it.
-
There is no diplomacy like candor.
-
I manage my business; politicians are doing their business. I can only work within their rules and regulations. I can't pick up a political fight.
-
Winning isn't everything, it's the only thing.
-
One cannot plan for the unexpected.
-
When I was a baby feminist, leading feminist thinkers were insisting that if women ran the world, there would be no sadism or war.
-
We do not need more intellectual power, we need more spiritual power. We do not need more of the things that are seen, we need more of the things that are unseen.
-
In England we burnt redheads at the stake, because we thought they were witches. There are still young redheads in Britain getting ripped for having red hair. 'Oy, Ginger!'
-
The laptop computer is a workhorse. The tablet is just a display.
-
I think I mainly climb mountains because I get a great deal of enjoyment out of it. I never attempt to analyze these things too thoroughly, but I think that all mountaineers do get a great deal of satisfaction out of overcoming some challenge which they think is very difficult for them, or which perhaps may be a little dangerous.
-
Could one live on the sense of beauty alone, exempt from the necessity of 'creature comforts,' a sea-voyage would be delightful.
-
Love is an interesting thing.
-
I want all my films to look distinctly different, like some other directors I admire. But in a way, I can't really take myself completely out of the movies I make.
-
I think anything goes in fiction as long as it fits within the interior logic of the work itself and is presented in a disciplined manner.
-
We shouldn't have to be burdened with all the technicalities that come up from time to time with shrewd, smart lawyers interpreting what the laws or what the Constitution may or may not say.
-
When I first went out on the road with Larry Williams, there was also, like, The Coasters, The Drifters, and The Flamingos.
-
The surest method of being incomprehensible or, moreover, to be misunderstood is to use words in their original sense; especially words from the ancient languages.
-
There are only two forces in the world, the sword and the spirit. In the long run the sword will always be conquered by the spirit.
-
It's very important to feel foreign. I was born in England, but when I'm being a writer, everyone in England is foreign to me.
-
If I try to articulate every little detail in a drawing, it would be like missing the forest for the trees, so it's just about getting the outline of the forest.
-
I find that fencing and training give me more stamina and help me deal with the craziness of being on the road so much.
-
I wanted to keep the complexity of the female experience in the film as much as it is in the book, and the subject of not wanting a child is a very interesting subject, one that's not dealt with very much actually.However that complexity was not serving the story of what became the film [The Girl on the Train].
-
I was born ostentatious. They will list my name in the dictionary someday. They will use 'Imeldific' to mean ostentatious extravagance.
