Elizabeth Jane Howard Quotes

The craze of genealogy is connected with the epidemic for divorce. If we can't figure out who our living relatives are, then maybe we'll have more luck with the dead ones.

Elizabeth Jane Howard

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• Alienation as our present destiny is achieved only by outrageous violence perpetrated by human beings on human beings.

  

  R. D. Laing
  • Present
  • Violence
  • Destiny

• I'm not one of these million-dollar actors. I have always been just a working actor. I probably work more than I would like to.

  

  D. B. Sweeney
  • Work
  • Always
  • Actor

• In principle, I think the idea of rewarding a good effort is interesting, but movies are generally different from each other as are performances and the conditions on how the performances are given and how they're edited and so forth.

  

  Viggo Mortensen
  • Good
  • Different
  • Interesting

• Waving the flag at the 1976 Olympics wasn't my idea. It was too much apple pie and ice cream. Not that I don't love my country, but I felt it was my victory up there, I put all the time into it.

  

  Caitlyn Jenner
  • Up
  • Time
  • Country

• If somebody takes masses of non-registered immigrants from the Middle East into a country, this also means importing terrorism, criminalism, anti-Semitism, and homophobia.

  

  Viktor Orban
  • Country
  • Terrorism

• I'm probably much more influenced by film-makers and painters than I am by other songwriters or poets.

  

  P. J. Harvey
  • Poets
  • Influenced
  • Painters

• The subconscious is ceaselessly murmuring, and it is by listening to these murmurs that one hears the truth.

  

  Gaston Bachelard
  • Truth
  • Listening
  • Murmuring

• Half the world is composed of idiots, the other half of people clever enough to take indecent advantage of them.

  

  Walter Kerr
  • People
  • World
  • Clever

• Cinema should always be in touch with the soil of the country. My films celebrate the heartland of India.

  

  Salman Khan
  • Country
  • Cinema
  • Celebrate

• I have written two medical novels. I have never studied medicine, never seen an operation.

  

  Taylor Caldwell
  • Medicine
  • Medical
  • Seen

• On oilrigs men who only work an 8-hour day are contemptuously called nine-to-fivers. In stark contrast, women are more likely not to take risks, even when the risks are minimal. What's the message to our sons? Our praise of our sons when they risk physical danger teaches them that a willingness to be physically abused creates love. Abuse-as-love? Yes.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • Work
  • Men
  • Women

• La confesión de uno humilla a todos.

  

  Antonio Porchia

• When it all got taken away, I was becoming a young man. So I had to sacrifice to leave my family... Sleeping in my car, getting an apartment for a month and getting evicted the next month. Staying in the $25, $50 hotels.

  

  DJ Khaled
  • Family
  • Taken
  • Car

• Every few years, I think, 'Maybe now I'm finally smart enough or sophisticated enough to understand 'Ulysses.' So I pick it up and try it again. And by page 10, as always, I'm like, 'What the hell?'

  

  Elizabeth Gilbert
  • Up
  • Smart

• People ask me how could I go from country to jazz. It's been a natural convergence for me.

  

  Charlie Haden
  • People
  • Country

• Napoleon was probably the equal at least of Washington in intellect, his superior in education. Both of them were successful in serving the state.

  

  Matthew Simpson
  • Education
  • Napoleon

• I want to bring more manufacturing jobs to America. For starters, I want to be behind the initative to build a manufacturing facility in Atlanta.

  

  Antonio Brown
  • America

• Compared to overdeveloped islands like Nassau, Bimini has kept its original charm. Walk the streets to see colorfully painted houses, funky shops, and trade greetings with friendly Biminites.

  

  Amanda Hearst

• I'm up for doing a part if I thought the part was right and the people want to consider me for a part. If I thought the part was absolutely exciting... I would go for it.

  

  Colm Wilkinson
  • People
  • Up

• As the American public continues to focus more intensely on illegal immigration and securing the nation's borders, the number of members of the House Immigration Reform Caucus continues to grow.

  

  Virgil Goode
  • House
  • Focus
  • Immigration

• To me, a lady is not frilly, flouncy, flippant, frivolous and fluff-brained, but she is gentle, she is gracious, she is godly and she is giving. You and I have the gift of femininity... the more womanly we are, the more manly men will be and the more God is glorified. Be women, be only women, be real women in obedience to God.

  

  Elisabeth Elliot
  • God
  • Giving
  • Gift

• The writer of originality, unless dead, is always shocking, scandalous; novelty disturbs and repels.

  

  Simone de Beauvoir
  • Writer
  • Dead
  • Repels

• The craze of genealogy is connected with the epidemic for divorce. If we can't figure out who our living relatives are, then maybe we'll have more luck with the dead ones.

  

  Elizabeth Jane Howard
  • Dead
  • Divorce
  • Relatives