Edie Sedgwick Quotes

I say the word death a lot … think of it as … primal relations, opposite, so if I say death a lot, it means I'm concerned with life. It's true.

Edie Sedgwick

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• The yogi offers his labyrinthine human longings to a monotheistic bonfire dedicated to the unparalleled God. This is indeed the true yogic fire ceremony, in which all past and present desires are fuel consumed by love divine.

  

  Paramahansa Yogananda
  • God
  • True
  • Human

• When life knocks you down, keep getting up.

  

  Malorie Blackman
  • Life
  • Up
  • You

• The divorce was the toughest thing in my life. It still hurts.

  

  Edd Byrnes
  • Life
  • My Life
  • Divorce

• Life histories tell you just about everything you need to know about an animal.

  

  Jack Horner
  • Life
  • Know
  • Animal

• My parents divorced when I was very, very young, but they maintained an incredibly amicable relationship. They were great partners, they were great parents, and they were great friends throughout my whole life until I was about 25, at which point they realized that they could relinquish; they could call it and move on.

  

  Natalie Zea
  • Life
  • Great
  • Friends

• We do not believe in immortality because we can prove it, but we try to prove it because we cannot help believing it.

  

  Harriet Martineau
  • Believe
  • Help
  • Try

• I have both joyful and heartbreaking moments in life, even now. Stardom doesn't give us everything.

  

  Vijay Sethupathi
  • Life
  • Moments
  • Now

• We weren't dirt poor, but there was no spare money kicking around. While it was very much understood that the way to a better life was through education, books were a luxury we couldn't afford. But when I was six, we actually moved opposite the central library, and that became my home from home.

  

  Val McDermid
  • Life
  • Money
  • Home

• Yes, I believe the will is very important. It's how I have succeeded in life.

  

  G. Gordon Liddy
  • Life
  • Believe
  • Important

• No man has a right to expect to succeed in life unless he understands his business, and nobody can understand his business thoroughly unless he learns it by personal application and experience.

  

  P. T. Barnum
  • Life
  • Business
  • Experience

• Life - how curious is that habit that makes us think it is not here, but elsewhere.

  

  V. S. Pritchett
  • Life
  • Think
  • Habit

• I want to talk about jobs and health care and pension security and what we're going to do to stop the brain drain in Ohio and make it possible for our young people to stay here and build a life in Ohio rather than in Pennsylvania or West Virginia or God knows where.

  

  Ted Strickland
  • People
  • Life
  • God

• A book tour is not a good opportunity to let your mind wander. You have to pay attention, remember salespeople's and interviewers' names, succinctly summarize your book in a 'selling' way, and so on.

  

  Ian Frazier
  • Good
  • Mind
  • Book

• I was quite satisfied with my creative life. I've always had reinforcement from a small but devoted readership.

  

  Edith Pearlman
  • Life
  • Small
  • Creative

• I've had an amazing life, but I think I was born with a little bit of sadness in me. I've always been attracted to those things, whether it's sad movies, sad music... when you're sad, you feel everything in a greater way than you do when you're happy.

  

  Sam Smith
  • Life
  • Music
  • Happy

• I wore goofy hats to school and did musical theater. Most people thought I was a dork. But if you have a sense of humor about it, no one can bring you down.

  

  Zac Efron
  • People
  • School
  • Thought

• The real guys that I knew were really cool people, who I played basketball with and traveled with on teams and knew their families and knew that they love their family. They just happen to do something that wasn't all the way legal, but it was a part of their life, and you knew that they hustled.

  

  Mahershala Ali
  • People
  • Life
  • Family

• As a heterosexual man, I've never really doubted my sexuality, but I've had men in my life and thought, 'If I was gay, I'd be with him' - you know?

  

  Garret Dillahunt
  • Life
  • Men
  • Man

• There's a tradition in British intellectual life of mocking any non-political force that gets involved in politics, especially within the sphere of the arts and the theatre.

  

  Harold Pinter
  • Life
  • Political
  • Theatre

• One client's wife managed to steam the labels off all of the several hundred bottles in her husband's prestigious wine collection, so the collection was worthless. The husband hosted 'What's that wine?' dinner parties.

  

  Laura Wasser
  • Wife
  • Husband
  • Wine

• I feel like I am walking in some amazing footsteps of writers who have come before me, like S.E. Hinton, Walter Dean Myers, Christopher Paul Curtis, Richard Peck and Kate DiCamillo, who I love.

  

  Jacqueline Woodson
  • Amazing
  • Walking

• I've had meetings where a guy actually told me, "What we're trying to figure out is how we can control you." In the meeting, to me! Why do you want to control me?

  

  Kanye West
  • Trying
  • Why
  • Guy

• I say the word death a lot … think of it as … primal relations, opposite, so if I say death a lot, it means I'm concerned with life. It's true.

  

  Edie Sedgwick
  • Life
  • True
  • Death