Edmond Jabes Quotes

We do not truly speak except at a distance. There is no word not severed.

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• The perceived wisdom is that people do not go in large numbers to black-and-white movies anymore - which is a great shame, but I'd love to make a black-and-white movie one day.

  

  Sam Mendes
  • People
  • Movie
  • Day

• As a kid, I was always a tomboy, playing sport and doing martial arts. And I'm pretty opinionated - I've never been told that I'm a weak person.

  

  Caity Lotz
  • Pretty
  • Always
  • Never

• Some kids go walking in the mountains, but I just went to the cinema. So when I told my parents I wanted to be an actor, even though this wasn't normal for Arab kids or anyone in the town, they were sort of expecting it and were very supportive.

  

  Tahar Rahim
  • Kids
  • Parents
  • Walking

• There is no way to prosperity, prosperity is the way.

  

  Wayne Dyer
  • Way
  • Prosperity

• An art aims, above all, at producing something beautiful which affects not our feelings but the organ of pure contemplation, our imagination.

  

  Eduard Hanslick
  • Art
  • Beautiful
  • Imagination

• I love writing. I feel ridiculously lucky that this is what I get to do all day.

  

  Tana French
  • Writing
  • Love
  • Day

• As I watched bookstores close, I began to wonder how that felt for the owners. Owning a bookstore was their dream and now they're struggling and seeing those dreams fall apart.

  

  Karen Kingsbury
  • Dream
  • Fall
  • Wonder

• I like to think of myself as very loyal, and I love everyone I surround myself with, whether they're friends or girlfriends or whatever.

  

  Taylor Lautner
  • Friends
  • Think
  • Like

• I grew up loving musicals. My mom had records of original cast recordings, and one of them was 'She Loves Me.' I wore that thing out singing along to Barbara Cook when I was eight years old.

  

  Laura Benanti
  • Up
  • She
  • Me

• When we played with the Rollins Band, we'd keep songs going until we felt like ending it.

  

  Adam Jones
  • Band
  • Going
  • Ending

• I'm very skeptical about the good intentions of Milosevic.

  

  Warren Christopher
  • Good
  • Very
  • Good Intentions

• After all the sacrifice in Afghanistan and Iraq, why do we find ourselves in a more dangerous world?

  

  Rand Paul
  • World
  • Why
  • Find

• As a doctor, I will take it and make it my mission to heal the nation, reverse the course of Obamacare, and repeal every last bit of it.

  

  Rand Paul
  • Nation
  • Mission
  • Doctor

• Why have your eyes gone into their own room?

  

  Anne Sexton
  • Why
  • Eyes

• For some reason, juggling things makes everything work better. That's just how we operate. It just makes the other project more of something to look forward to. I think the more you keep things going, the more it helps the other project.

  

  Fred Armisen
  • Work

• George Hamilton is one of the funniest men I have ever known.

  

  Britt Ekland
  • Men

• Companies are not ingenious, it's the people in them that are.

  

  James Dyson
  • People

• A divorcee is a women who got married so she didn't have to work, but now works so she doesn't have to get married.

  

  Anna Magnani
  • Work
  • Women
  • She

• Whether you are right in the middle of a glamorous event or watching it from the sidelines, the red carpet Oscar events set the stage to showcase the latest designs and styles for those watching around the world.

  

  Brad Goreski
  • World
  • Red

• We are just not made up to be middle distance runners.

  

  Alberto Juantorena
  • Up
  • Distance

• Oh! captive, bound, and double-ironed," cried the phantom, "not to know, that ages of incessant labour, by immortal creatures, for this earth must pass into eternity before the good of which it is susceptible is all developed. Not to know that any Christian spirit working kindly in its little sphere, whatever it may be, will find its mortal life too short for its vast means of usefulness. Not to know that no space of regret can make amends for one life's opportunity misused!

  

  Charles Dickens
  • Opportunity
  • Christian
  • Spirit

• When a politician says the debate is over, you can be sure of two things; the debate is raging; and he's losing it.

  

  George Will

• We do not truly speak except at a distance. There is no word not severed.

  

  Edmond Jabes
  • Distance
  • Word
  • Severed