Eileen Wilks Quotes

This was what she needed… the quiet turning to the other in the middle of the night, the wordless meeting of lips, skin, breath. The trust, unfurling one pale petal at a time, that he would be there.

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• I'm thought to be a tough writer, but I'm really a softie.

  

  V. S. Naipaul
  • Thought
  • Writer
  • Tough

• Originally, I thought English was more my home. But Spanish is so much more romantic. I've had to learn new phrases. I've had to learn to be more secure about singing in Spanish. But I'm working on it.

  

  La India
  • Home
  • Singing
  • English

• In Westerns you were permitted to kiss your horse but never your girl.

  

  Gary Cooper
  • Girl
  • Horse
  • Kiss

• Whenever you hear a discussion about the short-term swings in any given stock's price, your immediate thought should be whether it matters to why you are investing.

  

  Barry Ritholtz
  • Why
  • You
  • Thought

• Bear and endure: This sorrow will one day prove to be for your good.

  

  Ovid
  • Good
  • Day
  • Sympathy

• I used to eat a whole chicken, every day, for lunch. I did that for four years. But it got tiring - go to the store, buy it, eat it. It's a mess.

  

  Adam Driver
  • Day
  • Lunch
  • Chicken

• I have had the problem of seeing my male model go to Italy and... stay there.

  

  Camille Claudel
  • Problem
  • Model
  • Seeing

• I thanked President Obama for the United States' work in supporting education in Pakistan and Afghanistan and for Syrian refugees.

  

  Malala Yousafzai
  • Work
  • Education
  • Refugees

• I try to make myself, and subsequently the audience, as uncomfortable as possible, whether it's completely desecrating a song they thought was one thing, or getting too drunk to really do a very good job.

  

  J. Tillman
  • Good
  • Job
  • Song

• After the 1960s and '70s, there were real doubts about whether a mortal man could handle the country's highest office. It had destroyed Johnson, corrupted Nixon, and overwhelmed Ford and Carter.

  

  Nancy Gibbs
  • Country
  • Real
  • Man

• My faith isn't very churchy, it's a pretty personal, intimate thing and has been a huge source of strength in moments of life and death.

  

  Bear Grylls
  • Life
  • Pretty
  • Death

• I just want to be healthy and stay alive and keep my family going and everything and keep my friends going and try to do something so that this world will be peaceful. That is the most ambitious and the most difficult thing, but I'm there trying to do it.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • World
  • Trying
  • Family

• Eating vegetarian in the past would have been a really bad choice as an athlete. Impossible. Just being able to get the amount of protein in was a mission. You couldn't be picky. I feel quite liberated by the fact that I can now quite recklessly choose vegetarian food.

  

  Victoria Pendleton
  • Bad
  • Past
  • Food

• Here is one of the best bits of advice every given about the fine art of human relationships. 'If there is any one secret of success,' says Henry Ford, 'it lies in the ability to get the other person’s point of view and see things from that person’s angle as well as from your own.'

  

  Dale Carnegie
  • Art
  • Success
  • Lies

• Most of western culture is a distortion of reality. But reality should be distorted; that is, imaginatively amended. The Buddhist acquiescence to nature is neither accurate about nature nor just to human potential.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Nature
  • Reality
  • Culture

• I really learned it all from mothers.

  

  Benjamin Spock

• We all have ability. The difference is how we use it.

  

  Stevie Wonder

• Bill Murray is such a tremendous talent, but the world wasn't ready for 'Razor's Edge,' for something that thoughtful and with that much depth at that time in his career.

  

  Keegan-Michael Key
  • Time
  • World
  • Career

• It's so lovely to know that people who you would never think know about Bollywood, they know about Bollywood.

  

  Nargis Fakhri
  • People
  • Think
  • Know

• Music is indeed the mediator between the spiritual and sensual life.

  

  Ludwig van Beethoven
  • Life
  • Music
  • Spiritual

• A lot of the albums that I've been really into are like, 'Oh man. That doesn't make him look like a perfect human. That actually shows his warts and his scars, and for some reason, I'm super drawn to him now because he shared that or she shared that with me.'

  

  Andy Grammer
  • She
  • Perfect
  • Scars

• Darkness is merely the absence of light, and fear is merely the absence of love. If we want to be rid of fear, we cannot fight it but must replace it with love.

  

  Marianne Williamson
  • Love
  • Fear
  • For Her

• Nothing about my birth - or yours - was random or accidental. I was born for this time - and so were you. We were each chosen for a particular, cosmically important task that can be done by no one else.

  

  Christine Caine
  • Important
  • Born
  • Birth

• This was what she needed… the quiet turning to the other in the middle of the night, the wordless meeting of lips, skin, breath. The trust, unfurling one pale petal at a time, that he would be there.

  

  Eileen Wilks
  • Night
  • Quiet
  • Meetings