Eleanor Farjeon Quotes

On Hallowe'en the old ghosts come about us, and they speak to some; to others they are dumb.

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• I never cared about modeling. As a model, you're powerless.

  

  Karen Gillan
  • You
  • Never
  • Model

• I feel my story has been exercised very thoroughly and very frequently.

  

  Jack Kilby
  • Feel
  • Story
  • Very

• It happens that I'm heterosexual, but I don't care about that. I do care about protecting the rights of 10 percent of our population who are homosexual and who don't have the ability to protect their rights.

  

  Ed Koch
  • Care
  • Ability
  • Protect

• It's never as easy to keep your own spouse happy as it is to make someone else's spouse happy.

  

  Zsa Zsa Gabor
  • Happy
  • Easy
  • Own

• What's the most humiliating thing? When you take someone to dinner or you cook somebody dinner and they get food poisoning. I mean, how bad do you feel?

  

  Wendi McLendon-Covey
  • Bad
  • Food
  • Dinner

• I will be up at 8 A.M. making spaghetti bolognese for Peter and Sophia's evening meal if I'm working that day. I may not get back for the evening, and I worry if I don't do that, then they won't eat anything.

  

  Abbey Clancy
  • Up
  • May
  • Day

• Instead of hazarding our future on the dirty fuels of the past, let's invest in clean power that can drive this country forward. Let's cut energy waste, make our economy the world's most efficient, and give our workers a leg up in the global marketplace.

  

  Frances Beinecke
  • Up
  • World
  • Country

• There's not some idea I'm going to create a work that's going to change everybody's consciousness.

  

  Eckhart Tolle
  • Work
  • Change
  • Consciousness

• It is not wealth one asks for, but just enough to preserve one's dignity, to work unhampered, to be generous, frank and independent.

  

  W. Somerset Maugham
  • Work
  • Independent
  • Wealth

• You promised to take care of me and not to turn your back on me. How is it possible that you never wrote to me even once and you never came back to see me? Do you think that it is fun for me to spend months, even years, without any news, without any hope!

  

  Camille Claudel
  • Fun
  • Hope
  • Care

• No amount of debt restructuring, even debt forgiveness, will help the Greeks achieve real prosperity. What they need is not short-term relief but, rather, a long-term cure.

  

  Edmund Phelps
  • Long
  • Real
  • Help

• At Nike, designers both created and communicated the brand, transforming a company that made shoes into a purveyor of athletic heroism.

  

  Tahl Raz
  • Shoes
  • Company
  • Brand

• I mean, if you have to wake up in the morning to be validated by the editorial page of the New York Times, you got a pretty sorry existence.

  

  Karl Rove
  • Up
  • Pretty
  • Morning

• I think that England made a very big, historical mistake to allow itself to become the kind of terrorist capital of the world.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • World
  • Think
  • Mistake

• The burden of the self is lightened with I laugh at myself.

  

  Rabindranath Tagore
  • Myself
  • Self
  • Laugh

• It's one of my favorite seasons of the year: Back to School. As a kid, I loved fresh school supplies, new outfits, the change of seasons, and the chance to crack open a new textbook.

  

  Dana Perino
  • School
  • Change
  • Year

• To vilify a great man is the readiest way in which a little man can himself attain greatness.

  

  Edgar Allan Poe
  • Great
  • Man
  • Greatness

• I'm always, all the time, eating chocolate. I eat pretty healthy, but then I go all out when it has to do with chocolate.

  

  Zoey Deutch
  • Time
  • Pretty
  • Healthy

• World War II had a very important impact on the development of technology, as a whole.

  

  Barry Commoner
  • World
  • Important
  • War

• Sisley, I hear, is seriously ill. He is a great and beautiful artist, in my opinion he is a master equal to the greatest. I have seen works of his of rare amplitude and beauty, among others an 'Inundation' in the Camondo collection, which is a masterpiece.

  

  Camille Pissarro
  • Great
  • Beautiful
  • Opinion

• We are obviously all hurt by inflation. Everybody is hurt by inflation. If you really wanted to examine who percentage-wise is hurt the most in their incomes, it is the Wall Street brokers. I mean their incomes have gone down the most.

  

  Alan Greenspan
  • Hurt
  • Wise
  • Wall

• God, I am afraid he won't give me his answer today. If only somebody would help me - it is all so terribly depressing.

  

  Eva Braun
  • God
  • Help
  • Afraid

• On Hallowe'en the old ghosts come about us, and they speak to some; to others they are dumb.

  

  Eleanor Farjeon
  • Speak
  • Dumb
  • Ghost