Catherine the Great Quotes

You philosophers are lucky men. You write on paper and paper is patient. Unfortunate Empress that I am, I write on the susceptible skins of living beings.

Catherine the Great

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• I was never the pretty girl at school. I'm tiny and mixed-race. I grew up in a white area. I was always the loner.

  

  FKA twigs
  • Up
  • School
  • Pretty

• It's like everybody is shooting something, and everybody's a filmmaker; everybody can shoot a cat video and post it. So the big thing now is - for people that have talent and have something to say, and are creative, and are capable of making something good - is how do they get attention to it?

  

  Dana Brunetti
  • People
  • Good
  • Attention

• You don't know fear until it's 7 A.M. and freezing cold on live television, and you're not sure if Justin Bieber is going to kiss you or not.

  

  Halsey
  • Live
  • Fear
  • Cold

• My first love was acting. I went to Sidney Poitier films as a kid. I sat in the theater and dreamed of being an actor.

  

  Carl Weathers
  • Love
  • Acting
  • Kid

• I am the worlds laziest writer.

  

  Oscar Peterson
  • Writer
  • Laziest

• I first heard the story of Agnes Magnusdottir when I was an exchange student in the north of Iceland.

  

  Hannah Kent
  • Story
  • Student
  • Iceland

• Sometimes you think you aren't a good mama; you always feel a bit guilty when you're a mom. You want to be everywhere.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • Good
  • Think
  • Mom

• One of the ways I stuck out was I was a very passionate reader. There was probably a cyclical nature to that; the more I felt like an outcast, the more I sought refuge in books, and the more I sought refuge in books, the more it made me not speak the same language as my peers.

  

  Garth Risk Hallberg
  • Nature
  • Language
  • Same

• I started singing in church with my sister Maria when I was four, and I've been pretty much singing ever since. There's never been anything else for me to do.

  

  Imelda May
  • Pretty
  • Me
  • Church

• Preparing and cooking squid is easier than most fish. The only thing to remember is not to cook it for too long.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Long
  • Remember
  • Cooking

• Misuse of reason might yet return the world to pre-technological night; plenty of religious zealots hunger for just such a result, and are happy to use the latest technology to effect it.

  

  Anthony Clifford Grayling
  • World
  • Happy
  • Night

• Be fervent in God, and let nothing grieve you, whatever you encounter.

  

  Hadewijch
  • God

• The Night World isn't a place. It's all around us. The creatures of Night World are beautiful and deadly and irresitable to humans. Your best friend could be one-so could your crush.

  

  L. J. Smith
  • World
  • Beautiful
  • Night

• When you learn, teach. When you get, give. Maya Angelou taught me that.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • Learn
  • Teach
  • Taught

• I think it's healthy for a person to be nervous. It means you care.

  

  Beyonce Destiny's Child
  • Thinking
  • Mean
  • Care

• I'm coming on home to you instead cause they're all too ugly tonight.

  

  Jerry Lee Lewis
  • Home
  • Ugly
  • Adultery

• What the press never does say is who the leaker is and why he wants the story leaked. Yet, more often than not, this is the more important story: What policy wins if the one being disclosed loses?

  

  Daniel Patrick Moynihan
  • Important
  • Why
  • Winning

• A week filled up with selfishness, and the Sabbath stuffed full of religious exercises, will make a good Pharisee, but a poor Christian. There are many persons who think Sunday is a sponge with which to wipe out the sins of the week. Now, God's altar stands from Sunday to Sunday, and the seventh day is no more for religion than any other. It is for rest. The whole seven are for religion, and one of them for rest.

  

  Henry Ward Beecher
  • Exercises
  • Sabbath
  • Rligious

• [2010] was a rough year. Between my divorce and the other things I went through, a lot happened. It's hard for anyone to go through that in public. But when you're a celebrity and under a microscope, it's 58 million times harder. I grew an even thicker skin after that hard year.

  

  Christina Aguilera
  • Celebrity
  • Divorce
  • Skins

• The Times is a paper which is seldom found in any hands but those of the highly educated.

  

  Arthur Conan Doyle
  • Times
  • Paper
  • Seldom

• Kant can provide, and has provided, a good model for philosophers to think about the relation of metaphysics to science and scientific methodology.

  

  Allen W. Wood
  • Model
  • Relation
  • Philosophers

• When I start, I have a feeling for the characters, and maybe the shape of the story. Sometimes I might even have the last sentence in mind. But, no book I've ever written has ever ended the way I thought it would. Characters disappear, others come forward. Once you start writing, everything changes.

  

  Paul Auster
  • Writing
  • Mind
  • Character

• You philosophers are lucky men. You write on paper and paper is patient. Unfortunate Empress that I am, I write on the susceptible skins of living beings.

  

  Catherine the Great
  • Paper
  • Skins
  • Philosophers