Elizabeth Jane Howard Quotes

... the house seemed filled with dusty sunlight, which rose politely from wherever it had been resting on floors and windowsills, and then hung motionless and golden in the air until they moved to another room.

Elizabeth Jane Howard

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• 'Obvious' is the most dangerous word in mathematics.

  

  E. T. Bell
  • Word
  • Dangerous
  • Mathematics

• In the investment business, you must expect to be wrong.

  

  Barry Ritholtz
  • Business
  • You
  • Investment

• We have the ability to be able, if we have the right resources around us, to really do chop and change and have fun in our time and not just be stuck in one world or the other.

  

  Aaron Taylor-Johnson
  • Time
  • World
  • Fun

• I try to widen the horizons of every child I meet, and part of that is promoting diverse forms, be it graphic novels, stories told in a narrative voice, or more translated books, as well as more diverse writers and more diverse characters.

  

  Malorie Blackman
  • Child
  • Voice
  • Try

• It's so great to see a woman dressed in jeans and a lace-up boot with an extraordinary jacket. It's a moment where you do want to mix high and low, and it's not so much about a head-to-toe designer look.

  

  Narciso Rodriguez
  • Up
  • Great
  • High

• I would argue that the objective evidence shows that big government is not a friend to African Americans.

  

  Rand Paul
  • Friend
  • Government
  • Evidence

• The biggest competition is myself. I am not looking to follow others or pull them down. I'm planning to test my own boundaries.

  

  Rain
  • Myself
  • Competition
  • Planning

• I went to department stores, and there was nothing that I really loved. All the shoes were too complicated, too crazy, too ridiculous, too extreme. The platforms were so high; the shoes were so ugly, covered in crystals and feathers and crap. I just thought, 'Maybe somebody wants a beautifully simple, sexy shoe that they can actually walk in.'

  

  Edgardo Osorio
  • High
  • Simple
  • Crazy

• Just as the web democratized publishing and development, Bitcoin can democratize building new financial services. Contracts can be entered into, verified, and enforced completely electronically, using any third-party that you care to trust, or by the code itself.

  

  Naval Ravikant
  • Party
  • Trust
  • Financial

• Laws don't really restrain people. Ninety-eight percent of people follow a virtuous course with or without laws.

  

  Rand Paul
  • People
  • Laws
  • Follow

• My mother felt we'd be earning a living during our entire adult lives, and therefore believed we should spend summers in learning activities. Consequently, I got to see a plate glass factory in Pittsburgh, a U.S. Steel plant, and how Heinz made ketchup.

  

  Patricia A. Woertz
  • Mother
  • Learning
  • Plant

• Perhaps the mere idea of receiving a nasty missive will allow animal researchers to empathize with their victims for the first time in their lousy careers. I find it small wonder that the laboratories aren’t all burning to the ground. If I had more guts, I’d light a match.

  

  Ingrid Newkirk
  • Time
  • Small
  • Light

• Innovation is strict common sense with wild imagination.

  

  Vanna Bonta
  • Imagination
  • Innovation

• Let knowledge be guessed by the sign of equality to all beings.

  

  Ramana Maharshi
  • Knowledge
  • Equality

• Requiring governments to make all publicly held information and data available to people - thus giving citizens a powerful tool to expose corruption - is just one aspect of the accountability revolution that can be unleashed if the report’s recommendations are implemented in full.

  

  Tawakkol Karman
  • People
  • Giving
  • Powerful

• Defence was an afterthought, prompted by necessity; and its introduction as a State function, though effected doubtless with a view to the strengthening of the State, was really and in principle the initiation of the State's destruction. Its growth in importance is but an evidence of the tendency of progress toward the abolition of the State.

  

  Benjamin Tucker
  • Growth
  • Progress

• Lois: You're never gonna meet anyone hanging around here with the tactical nuclear family.

  

  Alison Bechdel
  • Family

• And, having once decided to achieve a certain task, achieve it at all costs of tedium and distaste. The gain in self-confidence of having accomplished a tiresome labour is immense.

  

  Arnold Bennett
  • Confidence

• Girl Scouts is such an iconic organization that it's easy to overlook how daring an idea it was for founder Juliette Gordon Low to gather those first 18 girls in that troop in Savannah, Georgia. It was 1912, after all, and women wouldn't earn the right to vote for another eight years.

  

  Anna Maria Chavez
  • Women
  • Girl
  • Organization

• We have a long way to go to being the perfect couple, we certainly don’t live the fairy tale marriage, he doesn’t shower me with rose petals and fly me to Paris on weekends but when I get my hair cut, he notices. When I dress up to go out at night, he compliments me. When I cry, he wipes my tears. When I feel lonely, he makes me feel loved. And who needs Paris, when you can get a hug?

  

  Cecelia Ahern
  • Needs
  • Paris
  • Petals

• We hold our heads high, despite the price we have paid, because freedom is priceless.

  

  Lech Walesa
  • High
  • Freedom

• The function of a newspaper in a democracy is to stand as a sort of chronic opposition to the reigning quacks. The minute it begins to out-whoop them it forfeits its character and becomes ridiculous.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Character
  • Democracy
  • Ridiculous

• ... the house seemed filled with dusty sunlight, which rose politely from wherever it had been resting on floors and windowsills, and then hung motionless and golden in the air until they moved to another room.

  

  Elizabeth Jane Howard
  • House
  • Air
  • Motionless