Eileen Chang Quotes

Life is an extravagant gown, riddled with lice.

Eileen Chang

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• Traditional matter must be glorified, since it would be easier to listen to the re-creation of familiar stories than to quite new and unexpected things; the listeners, we must remember, needed poetry chiefly as the re-creation of tired hours.

  

  Lascelles Abercrombie
  • Remember
  • Poetry
  • Tired

• I'm like an old vampire, so it's important to talk to young people.

  

  Manolo Blahnik
  • People
  • Important
  • Old

• I'm kind of embarrassed by how quickly I adjusted to L.A. I really love it. It's so pleasant.

  

  Ed Helms
  • Kind
  • Pleasant
  • Embarrassed

• Truth is not a matter of personal viewpoint.

  

  Vernon Howard
  • Truth
  • Matter
  • Truth Is

• The pleasure from acting comes from having great writing to work with. If it's well written and the character is interesting, then, as an actor, that's the raw material I need.

  

  Aasif Mandvi
  • Work
  • Great
  • Writing

• My father was a banker, but he was an independent spirit. He was a very good pianist and very much into music.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • Good
  • Music
  • Father

• 'Vogue' is a very specific world. You are 'Vogue,' or not 'Vogue.'

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • World
  • You
  • Vogue

• I'm living my dream right now. I get to make music, perform and travel.

  

  Ville Valo HIM
  • Music
  • Dream
  • Travel

• I knew being a musician was my calling when I was 12 or 13. I started singing when I was six but didn't actually see myself being a singer when I was 12 or 13.

  

  La'Porsha Renae
  • Myself
  • Singing
  • See

• Arsene Wenger asked me to have a trial with Arsenal when I was 17. I turned it down. Zlatan doesn't do auditions.

  

  Zlatan Ibrahimovic
  • Me
  • Down
  • Trial

• Classic economic theory, based as it is on an inadequate theory of human motivation, could be revolutionized by accepting the reality of higher human needs, including the impulse to self actualization and the love for the highest values.

  

  Abraham Maslow
  • Human
  • Values
  • motivation

• The Premier League is a very strong league. Chelsea, Manchester City, Arsenal, and Liverpool all have a high quality. But those who know me also know that I always want to win titles. And I think that Manchester United are a club which can win titles.

  

  Bastian Schweinsteiger
  • High
  • Strong
  • Me

• I have finished second twice in my time at Green Bay, and I don't ever want to finish second again. There is a second place bowl game, but it is a game for losers played by losers. It is and always has been an American zeal to be first in anything we do, and to win, and to win, and to win.

  

  Vince Lombardi
  • Time
  • American
  • Game

• Monotony is poverty, whether in speech or in life.

  

  Dale Carnegie
  • Life
  • Poverty

• As my poor father used to sayIn 1863,Once people start on all this ArtGoodbye, moralitee!

  

  A. P. Herbert
  • People
  • Father

• Unendowed with wealth or pity, Little birds with scarlet legs Sitting on their speckled eggs, Eye each flu-infected city. Altogether elsewhere, vast Herds of reindeer move across Miles and miles of golden moss, Silently and very fast.

  

  W. H. Auden
  • City

• There's also a dark vein of intolerance in some parts of the party. What do I mean by that? What I mean by that is they still sort of look down on minorities.

  

  Colin Powell
  • Party
  • Dark

• You're taught that it's not very likely for you to become successful... that odds are you're going to be a struggling artist for the rest of your life.

  

  Kali Uchis
  • Life
  • Rest

• I don't do husbands. I don't do children.

  

  Marina Abramovic
  • Children

• Before you worry about what genre it is, about whether it's a loop or a drum, it's about what suits the song. It's using what's within your reach, but also reaching for everything you can. I don't know if I always get it right, because I don't know every sound yet.

  

  Beth Orton
  • Song
  • Worry

• As long as we're dependent on those fossil fuels, we're dependent on the Middle East. If we are not victims, we're certainly captives.

  

  John M. McHugh
  • Long

• I like my body when I have curves. We all come indifferent shapes and sizes, and this is something to celebrate.

  

  Christina Aguilera
  • Body
  • Size
  • Celebrate

• Mama told me to make a special point to remember the best times of my life. There are so many hard things to live through, and latching on to the good things will give you strength to endure, she says. So I must remember this day. It is beautiful and this seems like the best time to live and the best place

  

  Nancy E. Turner
  • Life
  • Time
  • Good

• Life is an extravagant gown, riddled with lice.

  

  Eileen Chang
  • Life
  • Extravagant
  • Lice