Edmund White Quotes

Perhaps we'd understood each other too well to be attracted to one another. There were no occlusions in communication, those breaks in understanding that awaken desire.

Edmund White

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• The highest art is always the most religious, and the greatest artist is always a devout person.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Art
  • Religious
  • Artist

• My voice is not good enough for me to sing a song.

  

  Kapil Sibal
  • Good
  • Song
  • Enough

• I shall have a beautiful dream tonight. I also wish everyone to have a beautiful dream.

  

  Yani Tseng
  • Beautiful
  • Dream
  • Wish

• Jane Austen's characters for women are always very strong, opinionated and elegantly written, so they're always great for an actress to have a chance to do.

  

  Tamsin Egerton
  • Great
  • Women
  • Strong

• I'm a fast learner. I may not run as fast as I used to, but I think I still learn as fast.

  

  Carl Lewis
  • May
  • Think
  • Learn

• If a child plays sport early in childhood, and doesn't give it up, he will play sport for the rest of his life. And if children have a connection with, and are involved in the preparation of, the food they eat, then it will be normal for them to cook these kind of meals, and they will go on cooking them for the rest of their lives.

  

  Ferran Adria
  • Life
  • Up
  • Children

• I worked from 12 to 17, six years in a bakery. I was a pastry cook.

  

  Adam Giles
  • Years
  • Bakery
  • Pastry

• The experience of being an Olympian is one that can never be taken away from you.

  

  Hannah Kearney
  • Experience
  • You
  • Taken

• My father died when I was only five years old, and that was the moment when I learned a cruel lesson that tomorrow, in fact, might not be another day.

  

  Kara Swisher
  • Father
  • Day
  • Moment

• One result of An American Family was that I became a gay role model.

  

  Lance Loud
  • Family
  • American
  • Gay

• I didn't realise how much I ate Mexican food, like tacos and burritos three times a week, until I came to Europe and couldn't find any.

  

  Washed Out
  • Food
  • Week
  • Three

• I've been a lucky boy.

  

  Dan Stevens
  • Boy
  • Lucky
  • Been

• There is always something funny going on between scenes with Adam Sandler. He's always cracking jokes and yelling at people for no reason. It's pretty funny. He'll joke around during scenes, too. When he guest-starred on 'Jessie,' there was nothing in the script that he said first take.

  

  Cameron Boyce
  • People
  • Pretty
  • Funny

• Nellie Kim, an Olympic champion from the former Soviet Union, got a 10 right after me in '76, but nobody talks about that.

  

  Nadia Comaneci
  • Right
  • Champion
  • Olympic

• Here in Canada, in the Western world, we are inside the walls. Outside the walls are the barbarians.

  

  Barbara Amiel
  • World
  • Canada
  • Walls

• Is there in all the history of human folly a greater fool than a clergymen in politics?

  

  Pat Robertson
  • History
  • Politics
  • Fool

• I try to look at people like Adele and Norah Jones, who are very successful but don't have to deal with scandals.

  

  Yuna
  • People
  • Look
  • Successful

• The first thing I do is I check my emails and my texts. I guess I shouldn't feel guilty about it at this point; it's kind of the norm. Sometimes I'll bounce around Twitter. And if I have time, I'll catch up on the news, usually on 'Huffington Post' or 'Salon.'

  

  Randall Park
  • Up
  • Time
  • Kind

• Well, you can't trust most people in this game, period; it can be a very shady business.

  

  Marvin Hagler
  • People
  • Business
  • Game

• Infrastructure investments lead to jobs. And quality of life starts with a good job.

  

  John Hickenlooper
  • Life
  • Good
  • Job

• What I have found is that, in a family business structure, sometimes what is needed is a sense of discipline rather than creativity. You have to take everyone's ideas and make it work. When you are dealing with money, there is a limitation on how creative you can be.

  

  Ashwin Sanghi
  • Work
  • Family
  • Money

• We shall not read it for its sociological insights, which are non-existent, nor as science fiction, because it has a general air of implausibility; but there is one high poetic fancy in the

  

  Peter Medawar
  • High
  • Science
  • Air

• We need to do a better job of understanding what the world is.

  

  Cameron Esposito
  • World
  • Understanding
  • Need

• Perhaps we'd understood each other too well to be attracted to one another. There were no occlusions in communication, those breaks in understanding that awaken desire.

  

  Edmund White
  • Desire
  • Understanding
  • Communication