Elizabeth Jane Howard Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
You don't have to be an heiress to look like one, if you act like one then everyone will just presume you are one.
-
I find dates, in general, horrific. We have to sit there and ask these questions and pretend to eat a meal, and it just feels so stiff.
-
My father was my trainer, my teacher. He was closer to my sister in the sense that she adored him and he adored her. He was more like my pal. Because of the 13-year gap, I think by the time I came along, it wasn't a big deal. I wasn't spoilt or cherished, I was just put to work.
-
The nice thing about Reddit is, we don't have to sell your data or build a profile of you or do stuff that makes people feel uncomfortable.
-
Whenever someone says the word community, I want to reach for an oxygen mask.
-
I don't like talking about myself and I don't like talking about the work.
-
Only very intelligent people don't wish they were in politics, and I'm dumb enough to want to be in there.
-
But that the reasoning from these facts, the drawing from them correct conclusions, is a matter of great difficulty, may be inferred from the imperfect state in which the Science is now found after it has been so long and so intensely studied.
-
You can't really divorce yourself and your life from the world you live in.
-
If you keep telling a youngster he is no good, he might begin to doubt himself. A pat on the back could bring the very best out of him.
-
It is a grand thing to see a man thoroughly possessed with one master-passion. Such a man is sure to be strong, and if the master-principle be excellent, he is sure to be excellent, too.
-
I see the Internet as the next big deal - I wanted to get in on it early on so I wouldn't get behind it all.
-
My grandparents, they came through Ellis Island in 1923, and you know, I'd heard all the stories.
-
I'm friends with a lot of actresses, but my 'SNL' friends are my closest. The experience of working there is something of a battleground, a great one, but complicated. I think there's a deep connection for having survived that workplace.
-
I'm a pretty low-key North Carolina boy. I like to go fishing and hang out with my friends.
-
I won't touch on risky, because that's subjective. People are just afraid of things too much. Afraid of things that don't necessarily merit fear.
-
I'm an activist and advocate. I have empathy. It is hard to ignore causes.
-
I don't remember being put into the coma, but I do have a lot of weird memories from being under. This may be because I was in a coma via medicine rather than trauma. That time period played out for me as one long rambling dream where I was at a hospital to visit my boyfriend, who I thought was in an accident.
-
U.S. adversaries exploit power gaps. It's easier for Russia to invade Ukraine with irregular forces out of uniform, the so-called 'little green men,' than to send a conventional army that would challenge NATO.
-
I think that film combines almost every element that makes human life worth living.
-
I think that in the last eight years, we were averaging economic growth of about 2 percent. It's not good. It's very slow. It's a slow pace. People are expecting that pace to continue if Hillary Clinton becomes president.
-
I have fun. I don't take myself too seriously.
-
It's better to oversleep and miss the boat than get up early and sink.
