Elizabeth Hay Quotes

You stand next to the sea and you're in touch with all your longings and all your losses.

Elizabeth Hay

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• So you had to rev your engines, to beat the Russians and I think more than anything, if the Soviet team would win, or the Soviet athletes would win, you would see and hear and read about that. Quite frequently. So they would make a big issue of it.

  

  Ralph Boston
  • Think
  • Team
  • Win

• My dad moved to London in his early 20s and didn't really go back. So the irony is I've spent lots and lots of time in Ireland, but not with my dad. I've shot films in Belfast, where he's from. And I've shot in Dun Laoghaire. Which is great. And I've shot in Dublin.

  

  Imogen Poots
  • Time
  • Great
  • Dad

• Producing all my own songs and refusing to go to the hot producer. That's the biggest risk I've taken so far.

  

  J. Cole
  • Taken
  • Risk
  • Hot

• I'm a thigh-meat dude. Thigh is just the best meat - I don't get chicken breast. I think it's a publicity stunt that we've convinced people it's delicious.

  

  Patrice O'Neal
  • People
  • Think
  • Best

• Our deals and performance speak for themselves. And whoever doesn't feel comfortable investing with us will not.

  

  Dan Gertler
  • Feel
  • Speak
  • Performance

• Politicians love power. I love freedom. That is why I am not a politician.

  

  Victor Pinchuk
  • Love
  • Why
  • Power

• I have been fortunate to be able to have a career playing comedy and drama. And it's awfully hard - it's like apples and pears to compare the two.

  

  Jack Lemmon
  • Career
  • Comedy
  • Drama

• If I had been straight, I would have been an entirely different person. I would never have turned toward writing with a burning desire to confess, to understand, to justify myself in the eyes of others... I wouldn't have been impelled to live in New York and choose the hard poverty of bohemia over the soft comfort of the business world.

  

  Edmund White
  • World
  • Different
  • Writing

• Say there are three identical-looking pizza joints on a street. Two of those will always be empty. The third will have a line of people patiently waiting, checking their phones. There's always one place that's the place. That's how it works.

  

  Hari Kunzru
  • People
  • Waiting
  • Pizza

• Only criminals and bloodsuckers reward bad behavior.

  

  Ted Nugent
  • Bad
  • Behavior
  • Reward

• Cadila, India's sixth-largest drugmaker by sales, spent $250 million developing Lipaglyn, a new chemical entity or new discovery, and aims to spend another $150 million to $200 million to launch the drug outside India.

  

  Pankaj Patel
  • New
  • Drug
  • Sales

• The world's a scene of changes, and to be constant, in nature were inconstancy.

  

  Abraham Cowley
  • World
  • Nature
  • Changes

• Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly.

  

  Langston Hughes
  • Life
  • Die
  • Broken

• My guilty pleasure is reality TV, as I am really nosey.

  

  Kate Fleetwood
  • Reality
  • TV
  • Nosey

• We become obsessed with 'truth' when discussing statements, just as we become obsessed with 'freedom' when discussing conduct...Like freedom, truth is a bare minimum or an illusory ideal.

  

  J. L. Austin
  • Truth
  • Freedom

• The fall of Empire, gentlemen, is a massive thing, however, and not easily fought. It is dictated by a rising bureaucracy, a receding initiative, a freezing of caste, a damming of curiosity - a hundred other factors. It has been going on, as I have said, for centuries, and it is too majestic and massive a movement to stop.

  

  Isaac Asimov
  • Stop
  • Fall
  • Curiosity

• When the weather changes and hurricanes hit, nobody believes that the laws of physics have changed. Similarly, I don't believe that when the stock market goes into terrible gyrations its rules have changed. It's the same stock market with the same mechanisms and the same people.

  

  Benoit Mandelbrot
  • People
  • Believe
  • Stock

• Demosthenes: A demagogue must be neither an educated nor an honest man; he has to be an ignoramus and a rogue. (tr. O'Neill 1938, Perseus)

  

  Aristophanes

• We all naturally want to become successful... we also want to take shortcuts. And it's easy to do so, but you can never take away the effort of hard work and discipline and sacrifice.

  

  Apolo Ohno
  • Work
  • Effort
  • Discipline

• Turkey is a European country, an Asian country, a Middle Eastern country, Balkan country, Caucasian country, neighbor to Africa, Black Sea country, Caspian Sea, all these.

  

  Ahmet Davutoglu
  • Country
  • Black
  • Sea

• For anyone who lives in the oak-and-maple area of New England, there is a perennial temptation to plunge into a purple sea of adjectives about October.

  

  Hal Borland
  • Sea
  • Temptation
  • Autumn

• Andrew Wood's death changed things for a few weeks. I probably got even heavier into drugs after that.

  

  Layne Thomas Staley Alice in Chains
  • Drug
  • Week
  • Changed

• You stand next to the sea and you're in touch with all your longings and all your losses.

  

  Elizabeth Hay
  • Sea
  • Touch
  • Losses