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

• Please don't make me a joke. End the interview with what I believe. I don't mind making jokes, but I don't want to look like one... I want to be an artist, an actress with integrity... If fame goes by, so long, I've had you, fame. If it goes by, I've always known it was fickle. So at least it's something I experienced, but that's not where I live.

  

  Marilyn Monroe
  • Believe
  • Long
  • Live

• Man falls from the pursuit of the ideal of plan living and high thinking the moment he wants to multiply his daily wants. Man's happiness really lies in contentment.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Thinking
  • High
  • Man

• People understand the meaning of eating lies in the nourishment of the body only when they cease to consider that the object of that activity is pleasure. ...People understand the meaning of art only when they cease to consider that the aim of that activity is beauty, i.e., pleasure.

  

  Leo Tolstoy
  • People
  • Art
  • Lies

• Responsibility does not only lie with the leaders of our countries or with those who have been appointed or elected to do a particular job. It lies with each of us individually.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Country
  • Job
  • Responsibility

• Thanks to music I have found a deeper connection to an otherwise elusive God. Thru music I get to commune directly, and daily. On a side note to readers, any service or craft you give your heart to will give you the same effect. Don't be afraid to work less and play more! We are human. We didn't come here to hold down a dayjob. We came here to live and learn!

  

  Jason Mraz
  • Work
  • Music
  • God

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

  

  Elizabeth Oakes Smith
  • Lies
  • Prime
  • Noiseless