Elizabeth Jane Howard Quotes

Giving the rugged repairman the eye was one thing -- but Charity had no intention of snogging away a whole rainy afternoon when she was supposed to be catching up on her work. Lady Margaret was counting on her! But then again, Lady Margaret didn't have big brown eyes and a cheeky grin.

Elizabeth Jane Howard

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• A lot of women in sport tend to take on a very masculine, aggressive look. They want to be perceived as being strong and powerful. I never lost that sense of wanting to retain my femininity.

  

  Victoria Pendleton
  • Women
  • Strong
  • Lost

• I don't particularly like L.A.

  

  Walter Becker Steely Dan
  • Like
  • Particularly

• The best players I have seen and known have confidence in their teammates. They know that basketball's not a one-man game. That confidence brings out the best in everybody, because it's contagious.

  

  Jack Ramsay
  • Game
  • Best
  • Confidence

• America must realize, there are conditions she must accept in Asia. The first is a diversity of Asian cultures, governments, economic and political systems; the second, that to run against the tide of Asian nationalism is worse than impractical - it is also highly dangerous.

  

  Ferdinand Marcos
  • She
  • America
  • Political

• Bruce Weber is an amazing photographer, and Carine Roitfeld's style - and everything she does - is gorgeous.

  

  Kaia Gerber
  • She
  • Amazing
  • Style

• Indeed, it is not too much to say that the normal relation of States is war.

  

  Randolph Bourne
  • War

• All strugglesAre essentiallyPower struggles.Who will rule,Who will lead,Who will define,refine,confine,design,Who will dominate.All strugglesAre essentiallyPower struggles, And mostare no more intellectualthan two ramsknocking their heads together.

  

  Octavia E. Butler
  • Together
  • Design

• I say it speeds thee not That Christ rose from the grave, So long as thou art still To death and sin a slave.

  

  Angelus Silesius
  • Long
  • Art
  • Death

• The high-rise was a huge machine designed to serve, not the collective body of tenants, but the individual resident in isolation.

  

  J. G. Ballard
  • High

• Change alone is eternal, perpetual, immortal.

  

  Arthur Schopenhauer
  • Alone

• A mass culture is a culture which can be appropriated by the meanest capacities without any intellectual or moral effort whatsoever. … Liberal education is the counterpoison to mass culture, to the corroding effects of mass culture, to its inherent tendency to produce nothing but 'specialists without spirit or vision and voluptuaries without heart.'

  

  Leo Strauss
  • Heart
  • Culture
  • Education

• Oberst is one of those musicians that some people hate in a visceral, biological way.

  

  Ben Dolnick
  • People
  • Hate

• Mexico is the second most important destination of U.S. exports. What does this mean? The U.S. sells to our country almost the same as it sells to all the European Union, five times what it sells Brazil. More than what it sells together to Brazil, Russia, China, and India.

  

  Enrique Pena Nieto
  • Important
  • Country
  • Together

• I think that thing about the destruction of the world is there all the time, it's there every day when we look out the window.

  

  Peter Carey
  • Time
  • World

• Women need to be able to speak out if they are uncomfortable or something happened in the past that they were not comfortable with.

  

  Elisabeth Moss
  • Women
  • Past

• I was born in Africa. I came to California because it's really where new technologies can be brought to fruition, and I don't see a viable competitor.

  

  Elon Musk
  • California

• I'm not going to name some of my colleagues who are very well-known for their television presentation, but they wouldn't know new information or how to report a story if it came up and bit them.

  

  Bob Woodward
  • Up

• Life is essentially a question of values.

  

  Meir Kahane
  • Life
  • Question

• I would rather live as a Muslim in the West than in most of the Muslim countries, because I think the way Muslims are allowed to live in the West is closer to the Muslim way.

  

  Hamza Yusuf
  • Live
  • Think
  • Way

• We need to download scientific journals and upload them to file-sharing networks.

  

  Aaron Swartz
  • Need
  • Networks
  • Download

• I once knew a house rather like The Land of Smiles - an old house occupied by a varied collection of young people, mainly students. However none of these people were true models for the characters in the book, though their way of life may have been.

  

  Margaret Mahy
  • People
  • Life
  • May

• But you're dead,' said Harry. 'Oh, yes,' said Dumbledore matter-of-factly. 'Then... am I dead too?' 'Ah,' said Dumbledore, smiling still more broadly. 'That is the question, isn't it? On the whole, dear boy, I think not.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • Question
  • Boy

• And many more Destructions played In this ghastly masquerade, All disguised, even to the eyes, Like Bishops, lawyers, peers, or spies.

  

  Percy Bysshe Shelley
  • Eyes

• Giving the rugged repairman the eye was one thing -- but Charity had no intention of snogging away a whole rainy afternoon when she was supposed to be catching up on her work. Lady Margaret was counting on her! But then again, Lady Margaret didn't have big brown eyes and a cheeky grin.

  

  Elizabeth Jane Howard
  • Eyes
  • Charity
  • Supposed