Zoe Akins (Zoe Byrd Akins) Quotes
It is much more exquisite to be blown from the tree as a flower than to be shaken down as a shriveled and bitter fruit.
Quotes to Explore
-
I've played in Boston and New York, and it doesn't matter if you're sick, aching - once you step on that field, you're a completely different animal.
-
Being a recognised face has its problems. I miss the freedom to go anywhere I want to.
-
I didn't come from the elites. I didn't come from the Northeast or from San Francisco. I came from a southern Ohio steel town, and it's a town that's really struggling in a lot of ways, ways that are indicative of the broader struggles of America's working class.
-
If you think too-big-to-fail banks are not worthy of investment because of their impossible-to-read balance sheets, well then, don't buy them.
-
I just have work to do; I just do it.
-
I'm supporting the School for Creative Startups because the project's ambition - to boost innovation and the culture of entrepreneurship - is something I feel strongly about.
-
Statesmen remember things selectively.
-
When reproached for spending too much time with books and clerks, Charles answered, 'As long as knowledge is honored in this country, so long will it prosper.'
-
There is something inherently wrong, something out of accord with the ideals of representative democracy, when one portion of our citizenship turns its activities to private gain amid defensive war while another is fighting, sacrificing, or dying for national preservation.
-
There are no ghosts, my love. Death is final. The soul is that ineffable combination of memory and personality which we carry through life...when life departs, the soul also dies. Except for what we leave in the memory of those who loved us.
-
Nobody asked for life to deal us with these bullshit hands we´re dealt. We gotta take these cards ourselves and flip ém, don´t expect no help!
-
We will have to embark on a change so radical, a revolution so quiet and yet so total, that it will go far beyond the programme for a parliament.
-
Every man would like to be God, if it were possible; some few find it difficult to admit the impossibility.
-
Do I stress you out? My sweater is on backwards and inside out and you say 'How appropriate'
-
He fell in love with himself at first sight and it is a passion to which he has always remained faithful.
-
Dolce cosa era la patria.
-
Exclusion is never the way forward on our shared paths to freedom and justice.
-
Whomever you're going to interview, you have to be interested in what it is you want to know from them. You have to be interested in the subject.
-
It's naive to think you can change a person--except maybe that boy who works in the library.
-
Whereas if you have a camera in the courtroom, there's no filtering. What you see is what's there.
-
A wise woman keeps her hands firmly in her pockets and does not accidentally unzip anything, including her mouth.
-
I am always worried when someone says, 'This is perfect.'
-
He could not understand why he had needed so many words to explain what he felt in war because one was enough: fear. ~Jose Aracadio Segundo Buendia After the second banana slaughter
-
It is much more exquisite to be blown from the tree as a flower than to be shaken down as a shriveled and bitter fruit.
