Elizabeth Oakes Smith Quotes

T is the summer prime, when the noiseless air in perfumed chalice lies.

Elizabeth Oakes Smith

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• I'll tell you sort of an odd story: My music taste changed on 9/11. And it's very strange. I actually intellectually find this very curious. But on 9/11, I didn't like how rock music responded. And country music collectively, the way they responded, it resonated with me.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • Music
  • Story
  • Strange

• I think I began to like writing a lot more, and to be a better writer, when I did it for a while alone. It made me a little more confident about my style.

  

  Patricia Marx
  • Writing
  • Alone
  • Style

• The person who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare. The sure-thing boat never gets far from shore.

  

  Dale Carnegie
  • Never
  • Boat
  • Dare

• I have disassociated myself from that book.

  

  Uta Hagen
  • Book
  • Myself

• I used to dress like Roger Taylor when I was ten because I thought he was cool. In high school, I used to dress like Stephen Perkins from Jane's Addiction because I thought he was cool. You just want to be those guys when you're that age.

  

  Taylor Hawkins Foo Fighters
  • School
  • High
  • Age

• For me, New York is comfortable, not strange.

  

  Karl Lagerfeld
  • Me
  • New
  • New York

• The martyr cannot be dishonored. Every lash inflicted is a tongue of fame; every prison a more illustrious abode.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Fame
  • Prison
  • Tongue

• 6,000 people were killed, crippled, and wounded during the War of Independence. The economy was devastated - there was no milk, just milk powder. No eggs, but egg powder. Meat was only once a week.

  

  Yitzhak Navon
  • People
  • War
  • Independence

• And what's more I've got no need for anyone to tell me how to do it. I am not interested. You act how you want to and leave me alone to do my own thing.

  

  Olivier Martinez
  • Alone
  • Interested

• A political system seeking to function amongst ignorant, illiterate and barbaric people could have marvelous principles but could only succeed in being ignorant, illiterate and barbaric unless one addressed the people one by one and cured the ignorance, illiteracy and barbarism of each citizen.

  

  L. Ron Hubbard
  • People
  • Political
  • Ignorance

• The circulation of capital realizes value, while living labour creates value.

  

  Karl Marx
  • Value

• Against men habituated to lawless force, violent punishment failed to bring the violence under control.

  

  Barbara W. Tuchman
  • Men
  • Control
  • Violence

• Lir chiseled at the stone. It would take a month to make a perceptible impression on it. He had a few hours. Work harder, then.

  

  Tanith Lee
  • Work

• Logic has borrowed, perhaps, the rules of geometry, without comprehending their force... it does not thence follow that they have entered into the spirit of geometry, and I should be greatly averse... to placing them on a level with that science that teaches the true method of directing reason.

  

  Blaise Pascal
  • True
  • Science
  • Logic

• Religions, which condemn the pleasures of sense, drive men to seek the pleasures of power. Throughout history power has been the vice of the ascetic.

  

  Bertrand Russell
  • Men
  • Power
  • History

• Be less curious about people and more curious about ideas.

  

  Marie Curie
  • People

• I have a certain experience of the way people tell lies.

  

  Agatha Christie
  • People
  • Experience
  • Lies

• The world is not changing if you don’t shoulder the burden of responsibility.

  

  Ai Weiwei
  • World
  • Responsibility

• Be able to go shopping for a bathing suit and not become depressed afterward.

  

  Marilyn vos Savant
  • Shopping

• Literary works cannot be taken over like factories, or literary forms of expression like industrial methods. Realist writing, of which history offers many widely varying examples, is likewise conditioned by the question of how, when and for what class it is made use of.

  

  Eugen Berthold Friedrich Brecht
  • Writing
  • History
  • Question

• When I see a shipwreck, I like to know what caused the disaster...I learned nothing but the glow that wrapped her face when the soup came. That's the story.

  

  O. Henry
  • Stories
  • Faces
  • Soup

• I don't see much future for the Americans ... it's a decayed country. And they have their racial problem, and the problem of social inequalities ... my feelings against Americanism are feelings of hatred and deep repugnance ... everything about the behaviour of American society reveals that it's half Judaised, and the other half negrified. How can one expect a State like that to hold together?

  

  Adolf Hitler
  • Problem
  • Americans
  • Behaviour

• There is only one thing that a man really wants to do, all his life; and that is, to find his way to his God, his Morning Star, salute his fellow man, and enjoy the woman who has come the long way with him.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • Life
  • God
  • Long

• T is the summer prime, when the noiseless air in perfumed chalice lies.

  

  Elizabeth Oakes Smith
  • Lies
  • Prime
  • Noiseless