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

• 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

• 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
  • Me
  • Strong

• 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

• 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

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

  

  Marina Abramovic
  • Children

• I have understood that the most important things are tenderness and kindness. I can't do without them.

  

  Brigitte Bardot
  • Important
  • Kindness

• I care about narrative structure; I care about how stories unfold.

  

  Jeff Nichols

• Tumours can come out of nowhere.

  

  James Nesbitt

• Most people don't watch a movie four or five times; they watch it once.

  

  James Gray
  • People
  • Movie

• I always remember having a healthy respect for my grandmother.

  

  Prince William
  • Remember
  • Respect
  • Grandmother

• Before the 'Fast & Furious' promo in Manila, I went on a vacation in the Philippines 10 years earlier. I loved it. My 'Miss Saigon' friends showed me around.

  

  Luke Evans
  • Friends
  • Vacation

• I am an obsessive personality. And if you are an obsessive personality, you need to be aware of it and be able to drive it with success. There are moments in your life when you are driving it well, but you shift and you shift badly and you hurt yourself.

  

  Lapo Elkann
  • Life
  • Success
  • Moments

• My father was a Republican and he hated Roosevelt. And that's sort of been the battle of my life, I think. You have to understand I grew up a Republican conservative. I hated Castro. And I put my money where my mouth was because I went to war, but I understood pretty quickly that this was another place, another culture and we would never fit in there.

  

  Oliver Stone
  • Life
  • Up
  • Money

• I never danced a step in my life so naturally. My first motion picture was a musical, and Bob Fosse was the choreographer. I didn't exactly dance for Fosse, I just did the best that I could to do what he taught us to do.

  

  Dick York
  • Life
  • Dance
  • Picture

• Cisco projects that in 2020, now just five years away, there will be seven billion people on the earth and 50 billion devices connected to the Internet. Six-and-a-half devices on average per person. As a father of five young adults and teenagers, I think we are - in my household, we've exceeded the 6.5 number.

  

  James Comey
  • People
  • Father
  • Earth

• The heart of man will always be dark. There will always be evil people. The problem is that there is nothing we can humanly do to change them.

  

  Leon Bridges
  • People
  • Heart
  • Evil

• Life is an extravagant gown, riddled with lice.

  

  Eileen Chang
  • Life
  • Extravagant
  • Lice