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

• Fostering the leadership necessary for transformational outcomes in education is hard work, and in countries around the world, there is a constant search for easier solutions.

  

  Wendy Kopp
  • World
  • Work
  • Education

• 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

• Action is the real measure of intelligence.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • Real
  • Action
  • Intelligence

• 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

• Es ist niemals ein Dokument der Kultur, ohne zugleich ein solches der Barbarei zu sein.

  

  Walter Benjamin

• 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

• I continually took jobs I really wasn't really qualified for.

  

  Amy Hood

• A very merry, dancing, drinking,Laughing, quaffing, and unthinkable time.

  

  John Dryden
  • Time
  • Drinking

• I write about love and family a lot, because I'm always trying to figure those things out. At different points in my life, just when I think I've finished writing about it, the dynamics shift, and then I have a whole new set of questions and worries and misunderstandings to wrestle with.

  

  Sarah Kay
  • Different
  • Thinking
  • Writing

• An artist can only be evaluated after he's dead. At the 11th hour he might do something that will eclipse everything else.

  

  Van Cliburn
  • Artist
  • Dead
  • Eclipse

• My wife wants something foreign for Christmas - like a Mexican divorce.

  

  Milton Berle
  • Christmas
  • Divorce
  • My Wife

• 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