Ariana Franklin Quotes

Truth travels slowly and gets weaker as it goes. Suitable lies are strong and run faster.

Ariana Franklin

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• If I must choose between healthy and tasty, I go for the second: having only one life to waste, it might as well be a pleasurable one.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Life
  • Healthy
  • Choose

• The truth is, there's an information blockade in America, and it must be broken. In order to find crucial facts, numbers and outside perspectives, a person must spend an hour searching and cross-searching on the computer.

  

  Adam McKay
  • Truth
  • America
  • Broken

• I became fascinated by marionettes, which I first saw in Venice. They were so haunted and so alive. You walked by them, and you could feel their presence, with their beady eyes just fixed on you.

  

  Laura Amy Schlitz
  • Eyes
  • Presence
  • Venice

• It could be that all awful dictators are frustrated artists - Mao with his poetry and Mussolini with his monuments. Stalin was once a journalistic hack, and I can personally testify to how frustrated they are. Pol Pot left a very edgy photo collection behind. And Osama seems quite interested in video.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Poetry
  • Very
  • I Can

• There was no religion in my life growing up. Did God invent us or did we invent God?

  

  Eddie Izzard
  • Life
  • Up
  • God

• Pray to Christ for me that the animals will be the means of making me a sacrificial victim for God.

  

  Ignatius of Antioch
  • God
  • Me
  • Animals

• I grew up here and my friends are here. There's nothing wrong with here.

  

  S. E. Hinton
  • Friends
  • Nothing
  • Wrong

• You are more than now;You are for always.I can see in youMy dreams come true.Don't you ever go away.You make me feel likeThere's nothing I can't do.And when I hold you,I only want to sayI love you.

  

  Lionel Richie
  • True

• I go to bed angry and I get up angrier every morning.

  

  Harlan Ellison
  • Up
  • Morning
  • Angry

• 'Even from my sick bed, even if you are going to lower me into the grave and I feel something is going wrong, I will get up.'

  

  Lee Kuan Yew
  • Up
  • Sick

• I'm curious about everything - even things that don't interest me.

  

  Alex Trebek

• I was wrong, however, to suppose that Sellers thought the world revolved around him. He thought the cosmos did too, and history, and the fates... Like every egomaniac, he behaved as if everybody else spent their day being as interested in him as he was.

  

  Clive James
  • World
  • History

• I worked in 40 restaurants over a five-year period.

  

  Charlie Trotter
  • Period

• My first fear was about the devil, when I was around fire, something I saw in a movie. I think it's about pain, in whichever form it comes. I had a lot of energy as a child - sometimes too much - and I didn't know how to channel it. It was making me suffer. It was bigger than myself, and I was very young.

  

  Penelope Cruz
  • Movie
  • Fear
  • Energy

• How are people still working with Terry Richardson?

  

  Katherine Ryan
  • People

• Valor is common but great souls are rare.

  

  Bernard Joseph Saurin
  • Great

• What really got me focused on cancer was when my best friend was diagnosed with breast cancer, and even though she was a well-to-do person, I found that her treatment costs were crippling.

  

  Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw
  • She
  • Friend
  • Cancer

• You give me nothing during your life, but you promise to provide for me at your death. If you are not a fool, you know what I wish for!

  

  Marcus Valerius Martial
  • Life
  • Death
  • Wish

• Am I getting nobler, better, more helpful, more humble, as I get older? Am I exhibiting the life that men take knowledge of as having been with Jesus, or am I getting more self-assertive, more deliberately determined to have my own way? It is a great thing to tell yourself the truth.

  

  Oswald Chambers
  • Life
  • Great
  • Men

• I don't think I ever expected anything like an Oscar ever, to tell you the truth. That is not my motivation when I do these roles. I really am motivated by being able to work with great people and create a body of work that I can look back and be proud of.

  

  Leonardo DiCaprio
  • People
  • Work
  • Great

• She can kill with a smile. She can wound with her eyes. She can ruin your faith with her casual lies. And she only reveals what she wants you to see. She hides like a child, but she's always a woman to me.

  

  Billy Joel
  • She
  • Faith
  • Eyes

• I cannot salute the flag; I know that I am a black man in a white world. In 1972, in 1947, at my birth in 1919, I know that I never had it made.

  

  Jackie Robinson
  • World
  • Man
  • Black

• A seamlessly told and scrupulously detailed history of the Hartsoe clan of Haw County, North Carolina, Love and Lament is that rare novel that brings the gritty, rural past to vivid life. I could very nearly smell the moonshine (the moonshiners too!). Pass a few hours with Mary Bet Hartsoe and family. You won't regret it.

  

  T. R. Pearson
  • Life
  • Family
  • History

• Truth travels slowly and gets weaker as it goes. Suitable lies are strong and run faster.

  

  Ariana Franklin
  • Truth
  • Lies
  • Faster