Carolyn Murphy Quotes

I have stacks and stacks of journals. I'll change the names if I ever decide to publish them.

Carolyn Murphy

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• I've kept a journal since I was 15. And I feel like it's been crucial to who I've become and trying to maintain stuff, a sense of who I am just for myself and not for other people.

  

  Tavi Gevinson
  • Stuff
  • Maintain
  • Journal

• I am not scared of anyone. I will write and publish my books.

  

  Taslima Nasrin
  • Write
  • Books
  • Publish

• I'm a big journaler, so for every new journal, I would change the way my room looked and change the posters on the walls, and I would change what I was wearing, and I would have a playlist, and it all kind of corresponded and matched, and I would change my handwriting in the journals.

  

  Tavi Gevinson
  • Change
  • New
  • Journal

• Three publishers came to me at the White House after George lost and said, 'We would like to publish your book.' I said, 'Well, I don't have a book,' and they said well it's a well known fact that you have kept diaries.

  

  Barbara Bush
  • Book
  • Fact
  • Publish

• I miss the personalization that Vegas was - there were showroom captains and all the dealers knew the gamblers by their first names.

  

  Wayne Newton
  • First
  • Names
  • Vegas

• I've outdone anyone you can name - Mozart, Beethoven, Bach, Strauss. Irving Berlin, he wrote 1,001 tunes. I wrote 5,500.

  

  James Brown
  • Music
  • Names
  • Tunes

• My name, Diana Ross, is my name and nobody should be able to use that for exploitative purposes but me.

  

  Diana Ross
  • Purpose
  • Should
  • Able

• French name. English accent. American school. Anna confused.

  

  An Na
  • School
  • American
  • English

• If one could make alive again for other people some cobwebbed skein of old dead intrigues and breathe breath and character into dead names and stiff portraits. That is history to me!

  

  G. M. Trevelyan
  • People
  • Character
  • History

• One of the poets, whose name I cannot recall, has a passage, which I am unable at the moment to remember, in one of his works, which for the time being has slipped my mind, which hits off admirably this age-old situation.

  

  P. G. Wodehouse
  • Time
  • Mind
  • Remember

• Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord thy God in vain unless you've used up all the other four-letter words.

  

  W. C. Fields
  • Up
  • God
  • Words

• Babbage ... gave the name to the [Cambridge] Analytical Society, which he stated was formed to advocate 'the principles of pure d-ism as opposed to the dot-age of the university.'

  

  W. W. Rouse Ball
  • Age
  • Society
  • Science

• For years I've advocated keeping a gratitude journal, writing down five things every day that brought pleasure and gratefulness.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • Writing
  • Pleasure
  • Gratitude

• "Picasso" is of Italian origin, as you know. And the name a person bears or adopts has its importance.

  

  Pablo Picasso
  • Names
  • Italian
  • Bears

• What we saw was that the Ferguson Police Department in conjunction with the municipality saw traffic stops, arrests, tickets as a revenue generator, as opposed to serving the community, and that it systematically was biased against African-Americans in that city who were stopped, harassed, mistreated, abused, called names, fined.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Community
  • City
  • Police

• Hold your own. Know your name. And go your own way. And everything will be fine.

  

  Jason Mraz
  • Way
  • Knows
  • Names

• Whatever situation you are in - be it familiar spirit, generational curses or infirmity - be released, in the name of Jesus!

  

  T. B. Joshua
  • Jesus
  • Spirit
  • Names

• They that wait upon the Lord shall renew their strength, shall be healed, delivered and set free. Be set free, in the name of Jesus Christ!

  

  T. B. Joshua
  • Free
  • Jesus
  • Waiting

• I decided that I would be one of the biggest new names; and I actually had some little fancy business cards printed up to announce it, 'Count Basie. Beware, the Count is Here.'

  

  Count Basie
  • Up
  • Business
  • Names

• Lilith: Oh, but your heart grows cold. A north wind blows and carries down the distant... Rose? The Doctor: Oooh, big mistake! Because that name keeps me fighting!

  

  Gareth Roberts
  • Heart
  • Fighting
  • Mistake

• If it didn't work out right, I'd probably be in here losing a lot of my money. That was bad. At that juncture of the game and on a significant play like that, you have to be able to see that play.

  

  Allen Iverson
  • Work
  • Money
  • Bad

• The pleasures of love are pains that become desirable, where sweetness and torment blend, and so love is voluntary insanity, infernal paradise, and celestial hell - in short, harmony of opposite yearnings, sorrowful laughter, soft diamond.

  

  Umberto Eco
  • Laughter
  • Paradise
  • Insanity

• How much more must this be so in my own case for I am conscious not only of the great names and achievements of those who have preceded me, but also of the living presence of many of my masters and teachers.

  

  C. F. Powell
  • Great

• I have stacks and stacks of journals. I'll change the names if I ever decide to publish them.

  

  Carolyn Murphy
  • Names
  • Journal
  • Publish