Eleanor Perenyi Quotes

I love blue more than any other color. I am inordinately attracted to any blue substance: to minerals like turquoise and lapis lazuli, to sapphires and aquamarines; to cobalt skies and blue-black seas; Moslem tiles - and to a blue flower whether or not it has any other merit.

Eleanor Perenyi

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• I am of the opinion that the appreciation and the desire for what is good takes more study and insight than does the understanding and test for the best music and art.

  

  Laurance Rockefeller
  • Good
  • Music
  • Art

• We each take up one virtual space per title... Virtual shelf life is forever. In a bookstore, you have anywhere from a few weeks to a few months to sell your title, and then it gets returned. This is a big waste of money, and no incentive at all for the bookseller to move the book.

  

  J. A. Konrath
  • Life
  • Up
  • Money

• Telugu audiences love cinema. They won't let a good film down, and they've proved this with the way they accepted 'Srimanthudu.'

  

  Mahesh Babu
  • Good
  • Cinema
  • Audiences

• I hadn't planned to be a model. It just happened by pure chance. I went to a beauty school with my sister, and I got discovered pretty late. I was discovered when I was 20-21.

  

  Irina Shayk
  • School
  • Pretty
  • Model

• Statistics is the grammar of science.

  

  Karl Pearson
  • Science
  • Statistics
  • Grammar

• There are only two types of women - goddesses and doormats.

  

  Pablo Picasso
  • Women
  • Two
  • Only

• I am charismatic with roots of the Pentecostal.

  

  Oral Roberts
  • Roots
  • Charismatic
  • Pentecostal

• I stress out so much about the red carpet and interviews and pictures, and, you know, not getting my skirt tucked in my knickers.

  

  Maisie Williams
  • Know
  • Red
  • Stress

• Hanson is not the pop band that a lot of people think we are. I think we're a lot more rooted in a lot of music history... we're songwriters, we're singers, we're players first. We're not entertainers, we're not celebrities, and frankly, we don't really want to be.

  

  Isaac Hanson Hanson
  • People
  • Music
  • History

• There's immense fun to be had as long as you can sort of sneak it past DC. I have been told on occasion that I need to have more respect for these characters.

  

  Garth Ennis
  • Long
  • Fun
  • Past

• It usually starts with the director and any other creatives who may be involved at the start. It's a collaboration. I bring what I have naturally and, hopefully, what they cast me for, and then we start playing and tweaking until we have what they feel's right. It helps to have some artwork to inspire me, but I don't always get that luxury.

  

  Yuri Lowenthal
  • May
  • Inspire
  • Collaboration

• The silver and black may have another home, but the Raiders will always belong to the people of Los Angeles.

  

  Ice Cube
  • People
  • May
  • Home

• The thing about the 600 words, I mean some day, you can do a very, very, very hard day's work and not write a word, just revising, or you would scribble a few words.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • Work
  • Words
  • Day

• I had breast cancer. Yeah, I know it's scary.

  

  Wanda Sykes
  • Know
  • Cancer
  • Scary

• I don't believe in the death penalty, but I understand personal vengeance.

  

  Ian McShane
  • Believe
  • Death
  • Understand

• The good news is that, according to the Obama administration, the rich will pay for everything. The bad news is that, according to the Obama administration, you're rich.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Politics

• The majesty of the American Jewish experience is in its success marrying its unique Jewish identity with the larger, liberal values of the United States. There is no need anymore to choose between assimilation and separation. We are accepted as equals.

  

  Edgar Bronfman, Sr.
  • Experience
  • American
  • Success

• Grief does not expire like a candle or the beacon on a lighthouse. It simply changes temperature.

  

  Anthony Rapp
  • Grief
  • Candle
  • Temperature

• I think all of the decisions I make about my life and writing are the preparation - what I choose to write about and the immersive nature of the lifestyle I choose for playwriting.

  

  Quiara Alegria Hudes
  • Life
  • Thinking
  • Writing

• We rejoice in all the Savior has done for us. He has made it possible for each of us to gain our salvation and exaltation.

  

  Quentin L. Cook
  • Done

• Our flawed mechanisms of perception and thought are not a cause for grief, but an opportunity to evolve, for an internal evolution of consciousness that will also make possible, in a sustainable form, our aspirations toward what we call individual success and global progress.

  

  Bellur Krishnamachar Sundararaja Iyengar
  • Success
  • Opportunity
  • Progress

• I love blue more than any other color. I am inordinately attracted to any blue substance: to minerals like turquoise and lapis lazuli, to sapphires and aquamarines; to cobalt skies and blue-black seas; Moslem tiles - and to a blue flower whether or not it has any other merit.

  

  Eleanor Perenyi
  • I Love
  • Merit
  • Seas