Edmund White Quotes

When I was living in Paris in the '80s, I used to go out with an American model who couldn't speak French. But suddenly everyone could speak English because he was so cute.

Edmund White

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• Violin playing is a physical art with great traditions behind it.

  

  Vanessa Mae
  • Great
  • Art
  • Traditions

• Faith may be defined briefly as an illogical belief in the occurrence of the improbable.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • May
  • Faith
  • Belief

• I'm working now on a collection of Shakespearean sonnets, about 100 of them, that I may publish if anyone's interested. My take on life is a little different from the bard's.

  

  Jack Prelutsky
  • Life
  • Different
  • May

• Take a very small amount of money, your throwaway money, treat it as if it's already gone, you've mentally set it on fire, and put it in some distribution of a few truly legit layer 1 blockchains.

  

  Naval Ravikant
  • Money
  • Small
  • Fire

• I have always loved and appreciated the Giants organization, my Giants teammates, and the fans of San Francisco.

  

  Pablo Sandoval
  • Organization
  • Fans
  • Loved

• Like everything which is not the involuntary result of fleeting emotion but the creation of time and will, any marriage, happy or unhappy, is infinitely more interesting than any romance, however passionate.

  

  W. H. Auden
  • Time
  • Happy
  • Interesting

• I worked from 10 p.m. until 1 a.m. every night for a year to write the first 'Chicken Soup for the Soul' book.

  

  Jack Canfield
  • Book
  • Soul
  • Night

• I wouldn't want to be remembered as the guy who contaminated a perfectly legitimate form of protest art with money and celebrities.

  

  Banksy
  • Money
  • Art
  • Guy

• On right-to-life, see the Republicans flee from Todd Akin, who committed a gaffe while restating his support for what has been a plank of the Republican platform since 1980.

  

  Pat Buchanan
  • Life
  • Support
  • Been

• People are entitled to the presumption of innocence.

  

  Barney Frank
  • People
  • Innocence
  • Entitled

• 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
  • People
  • Life
  • Time

• I don't think it is just in the world of politics. The lack of civility in society as a whole, some of it, I believe, is very much fueled by social media and frankly, it's fueled by the fact that journalism is not journalism any more.

  

  Karen Handel
  • World
  • Believe
  • Society

• Inevitably, I think the people that want to work with me are also the people that I want to work with.

  

  Dane DeHaan
  • People
  • Work
  • Think

• Two hundred years ago, our precursors in Haiti struck a blow for freedom, which was heard around the world, and across centuries.

  

  Baldwin Spencer
  • World
  • Freedom
  • Years

• I'm very open-minded.

  

  Gabrielle Reece
  • Very
  • Open-minded

• Marriage is a gamble, let's be honest.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • Marriage
  • Honest
  • Gamble

• Television offered me the opportunity to do new things; I had written a lot of scripts other than scary movies. I had actually written some romantic comedies and stuff that I really wanted to try my hand at, and nobody would let me do that. Television allowed me to do anything I wanted.

  

  Gary Sherman
  • Opportunity
  • Romantic
  • Scary

• Hard work makes easy reading or, at least, easier reading.

  

  M. H. Abrams
  • Work
  • Reading
  • Hard Work

• Knowing about God is crucially important for the living of our lives... Disregard the study of God, and you sentence yourself to stumble and blunder through life blindfolded, as it were, with no sense of direction and no understanding of what surrounds you. This way you can waste your life and lose your soul.

  

  J. I. Packer
  • Life
  • God
  • Important

• I want to be a soldier as my father was.

  

  Kaspar Hauser
  • Father
  • Want
  • Soldier

• I've been criticised for writing in too complex a manner for younger people.

  

  Tanith Lee
  • People
  • Writing
  • Complex

• Hither, thither, masterless Ship upon the sea, Wandering through the ways of air, Go the birds like me. Bound am I by ne’er a bond, Prisoner to no key, Questing go I for my kind, Find depravity.

  

  Archpoet
  • Find
  • Bound
  • Depravity

• The Arabs are one of the least developed cultures. They are typically nomads. Their culture is primitive, and they resent Israel because it's the sole beachhead of modern science and civilization on their continent. When you have civilized men fighting savages, you support the civilized men, no matter who they are.'

  

  Ayn Rand
  • Men
  • Science
  • Culture

• When I was living in Paris in the '80s, I used to go out with an American model who couldn't speak French. But suddenly everyone could speak English because he was so cute.

  

  Edmund White
  • American
  • English
  • Model