Zoe Akins (Zoe Byrd Akins) Quotes

Nothing seems so tragic to one who is old as the death of one who is young, and this alone proves that life is a good thing.

Zoe Akins

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• You win some, lose some, and wreck some.

  

  Dale Earnhardt
  • Sports
  • Win
  • Lose

• What is Norah Jones' style? Is it just the albums that we've heard? She has a rock group where she plays guitar in, downtown in New York, so do we really know her style?

  

  Talib Kweli Black Star
  • Style
  • Rock
  • Guitar

• It didn't scare me to be vulnerable because I think that's when you get something great.

  

  Rachel Platten
  • Great
  • Think
  • Me

• Kids have a great sense of humour. If you don't, you're going to miss out.

  

  Tamsin Greig
  • Great
  • Kids
  • You

• We love a tale of heroes and villains and conflicts requiring a neat resolution.

  

  Barry Ritholtz
  • Heroes
  • Conflicts
  • Tale

• I think you could ask 10 English people the same question about class and get a very different answer.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • People
  • Different
  • Think

• Our family suffers from a hereditary condition called, generally, mental illness. Specifically, multiple family members in successive generations have suffered from either bipolar disorder or schizophrenia.

  

  Victor LaValle
  • Family
  • Mental Illness

• I have to recognize that my voice is attached to my body, which gets tired.

  

  Verite
  • Body
  • Voice
  • Tired

• If people want to find me, they can. They'll see a middle-aged woman wandering around the grocery store, looking to see what to buy for dinner.

  

  S. E. Hinton
  • People
  • Woman
  • Dinner

• I have had the good fortune to be able to climb the highest mountain on each of the seven continents. I have enjoyed the freedom I had gained from building a successful business from scratch, making some money, and creating the lifestyle I wanted.

  

  Gary Johnson
  • Good
  • Money
  • Business

• Basically, I'm living the life of an actress in L.A. And I've recently had some pretty good fortune.

  

  Olivia Munn
  • Life
  • Good
  • Pretty

• Everyone asks me why someone Turkish is making Greek yogurt. In Greece, it is not called 'Greek yogurt.' Everywhere in the world it is called 'strained yogurt.' But because it was introduced in this country by a Greek company, they called it 'Greek yogurt.'

  

  Hamdi Ulukaya
  • World
  • Country
  • Me

• 'Great Expectations' has become one of my favorite books.

  

  Felicity Jones
  • Great
  • Expectations
  • Become

• In this digital age, there is no place to hide behind public relations people. This digital age requires leaders to be visible and authentic and to be able to communicate the decisions they've made and why they've made them, to be able to acknowledge when they've made a mistake and to move forward, to engage in the debate.

  

  Gail Kelly
  • People
  • Why
  • Age

• I have ideas all of the time from the beginning, but they never really wind up turning out like I thought they would.

  

  Danger Mouse
  • Up
  • Time
  • Ideas

• Christianity affects your whole life. I feel I'm more competitive, a better player, but off the field is where there is always a battle.

  

  Barry Sanders
  • Life
  • Player
  • Better

• I don't worry about chemicals. There are enough chemicals entering my body through all the fizzy drinks I consume to worry if my lip balm is 100 per cent organic.

  

  Edie Campbell
  • Worry
  • Body
  • Enough

• At 23 it was all about acting. Today it's getting my kids to school, making sure that they've done their homework. I'm in my fifties, and I'm turning into a square.

  

  Gary Oldman
  • School
  • Done
  • Kids

• I see if I can make human beings look like reptiles.

  

  Ralph Steadman
  • Human
  • Look
  • See

• The Gorillaz cartoons seem more real to me than the actual people on TV. Because at least you know that there's some intelligence behind the cartoons, and there's a lot of work that's gone into it, so it can't all be just a lie.

  

  Damon Albarn Blur
  • People
  • Work
  • Real

• The world outside had its own rules, and those rules were not human.

  

  Michel Houellebecq
  • World
  • Humans

• In those days, reserve duty lasted for six years, which, I might add, was three times as long as service in the regular army, although to be perfectly honest, I was unable to fulfill my entire obligation because I was taking acting classes and they said I could skip my last year.

  

  Larry David
  • Long
  • Service
  • Army

• No, my degree was history, not the practice of art! I can't draw to save my life you know.

  

  Emma Anderson
  • Life
  • Art
  • History

• Nothing seems so tragic to one who is old as the death of one who is young, and this alone proves that life is a good thing.

  

  Zoe Akins
  • Life
  • Young
  • Prove