Elizabeth Jane Howard Quotes

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• We lived in Germany; my father was in the Army, and they figured I would have more consistency at boarding school. That kind of gives you a thick skin.

  

  Ed Weeks
  • School
  • Father
  • Army

• We must show our Christian colors if we are to be true to Jesus Christ.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • True
  • Christian
  • Jesus

• The fundamental purpose of Jesus was the establishment of the kingdom of God, which involved a thorough regeneration and reconstitution of social life.

  

  Walter Rauschenbusch
  • Life
  • God
  • Purpose

• Drunk, if you like; so much the worse for those who fear wine, for it is because they have bad thoughts which they are afraid the liquor will extract from their hearts.

  

  Alexandre Dumas
  • Bad
  • Fear
  • Thoughts

• I'm not taking for granted being managed by Roc Nation. They have a lot of relations, and they have a reach that I clearly could benefit from.

  

  Anthony Santos Aventura

• My dad had this philosophy that if you tell children they're beautiful and wonderful then they believe it, and they will be. So I never thought I was unattractive. But I was never one of the girls at school who had lots of boyfriends.

  

  Emily Mortimer
  • Believe
  • Children
  • School

• I literally said it was my dream in life to direct a Charlie Kaufman movie.

  

  Duke Johnson
  • Life
  • Movie
  • Dream

• England is better only because I stand out there as 'unusual'.

  

  Emo Philips

• Having served as the majority spokesman for the House Ways and Means Committee after Republicans took the House in 1994, I've seen the promise and the peril of divided government before.

  

  Ari Fleischer
  • House
  • Promise

• Republicans must stop putting tax increases on the fiscal cliff negotiating table and start demanding that Democrats put forth serious proposals to reduce spending.

  

  John Fleming
  • Stop
  • Serious

• My parents are really conservative. My dad is Muslim, and my mom is the most conservative woman you've ever met. They're very aristocratic in the most quaint suburban way.

  

  SZA
  • Parents
  • Dad
  • Mom

• Money is a corporate image depending on society for its institutional status. (p. 133)

  

  Marshall McLuhan
  • Money
  • Society

• If you are in Brazil and you grew up in a right-wing dictatorship, you think Marxism is liberating. But if you grew up in Czechoslovakia, and the Soviet Union is controlling everything and killing people, then you think capitalism is liberating. Neither of those two things are true and it doesn't take a lot brains to understand this.

  

  Jose Padilha
  • People
  • Up
  • True

• I come from a generation where you put the art out and had the luxury to sit back and watch the world deconstruct it, and that was valued. Unfortunately now the work lives in a weird context.

  

  M.I.A.
  • World
  • Work
  • Art

• I am in charity, my children, with all the servants of God.

  

  Caedmon
  • God
  • Children
  • Charity

• The scepticism which men affect towards their higher inspirations is often not an honest doubt, but a guilty negligence, and is a sign of narrow mind and defective wisdom.

  

  James Martineau
  • Doubt
  • Inspiration
  • Honest

• I have never had a feeling, politically, that did not spring from the Declaration of Independence that all should have an equal chance. This is the sentiment embodied in the Declaration of Independence, I would rather be assassinated on this spot than surrender it.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Feeling
  • Chance
  • Surrender

• And if your head explodes with dark forebodings too I'll see you on the dark side of the moon.

  

  Roger Waters Pink Floyd
  • Dark Side
  • Explodes
  • Forebodings

• Good writing is like a bomb: it explodes in the face of the reader.

  

  Nuruddin Farah
  • Writing
  • Reader
  • Explodes

• If people want to really know what's up with me then they can read one of my interviews.

  

  Ed Westwick
  • People
  • Up
  • Want

• My whole career I've been interested by the distinction between an emotional and an intellectual response to an artwork.

  

  Janet Echelman
  • Career
  • Emotional

• Once I got a guitar that was relatively user-friendly, but not super-duper easy, I really came on as a guitarist, at that point. It helped. It was a super-expensive guitar either, but something needs to steer you a bit, if you're playing an instrument that is really hard.

  

  Jimmy Page Led Zeppelin
  • Guitar
  • User-friendly
  • Super-expensive

• What, in fact, is a novel but a universe in which action is endowed with form, where final words are pronounced, where people possess one another completely, and where life assumes the aspect of destiny?

  

  Albert Camus
  • Universe
  • Destiny
  • Pronounced

• At a touch, he explodes like a snapdragon into loud purrs.

  

  Elizabeth Jane Howard
  • Explodes
  • Purr