Elizabeth Scott Quotes

If she could breathe then it could be heard, but she was breathless.

Elizabeth Scott

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• Because of my own family's service (in the U.S. Army, Navy, and Massachusetts and New York National Guard), I am a strong supporter of the military and do believe that there are just wars.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Believe
  • Family
  • Strong

• Try and fit in in a New Zealand playground with an Armagh accent - it doesn't work.

  

  Sam Neill
  • Work
  • Try
  • Playground

• During my childhood, Washington was a segregated city, and I lived in the midst of a poor black neighborhood. Life on the streets was often perilous. Indoor reading was my refuge, and twice a week, I made the hazardous bicycle trek to the central library at Seventh and K streets to stock up on supplies.

  

  Irvin D. Yalom
  • Life
  • Up
  • Black

• I didn't have a lot of communication with Elvis. You had to go through a barricade to get to Elvis. It was people hanging on every word, and I felt very uncomfortable a lot of times.

  

  Mac Davis
  • People
  • You
  • Communication

• I'm thrilled we've got a new single out, as singles were the way I first got into music as a child.

  

  Ed O'Brien Radiohead
  • Music
  • Single
  • Child

• I know how demanding the process of creation is.

  

  Karen Kain
  • Know
  • Process
  • Creation

• As a country that does not belong to any power bloc, India cannot afford to put itself in the position of needing multilateral support - a trap into which even developed countries, like Portugal and Spain, have fallen.

  

  Raghuram Rajan
  • Country
  • Power
  • Support

• Mainly, when I go see a show, unfortunately it's more industrial espionage than it is going to actually enjoy a show.

  

  Hal Sparks
  • Enjoy
  • Show
  • Industrial

• It's nice to have some continuity you can come back to. I feel that in coming home, coming back to London.

  

  Felicity Jones
  • Home
  • Nice
  • London

• My monochrome pictures are not my definite works, but the preparation for my works. They are the left-overs from the creative processes, the ashes. My pictures, after all, are only the title-deeds to my property which I have to produce when I am asked to prove that I am a proprietor.

  

  Yves Klein
  • Preparation

• Oderint dum metuant.

  

  Lucius Accius

• There were times when other people said I was on the short list, but as time passed and nothing happened, I didn’t expect the recognition would come because people who were familiar with my work were slowly dying off.

  

  Leonid Hurwicz
  • People
  • Time
  • Work

• That which is desirable on its own account and for the sake of knowing it is more of the nature of wisdom than that which is desirable on account of its results.

  

  Aristotle
  • Nature
  • Wisdom
  • Knowing

• If anyone is as angry as I am, it's the good people of Detroit.

  

  Lewis Black
  • People
  • Good
  • Angry

• Los Angeles produced the Beach Boys. Dusseldorf produced Kraftwerk. New York produced Chic. Manchester produced Joy Division.

  

  Bernard Sumner New Order
  • Joy
  • Beach

• My sister is my very favorite person, and I dedicated 'To All the Boys I've Loved Before' to her.

  

  Jenny Han
  • Sister

• I remember my first show was a live TV show in Ireland, and I was just petrified. It was horrific.

  

  Caroline Corr
  • Live
  • Remember

• The discovery of agriculture was the first big step toward a civilized life.

  

  Arthur Keith
  • Life

• Gollum is entirely based on the notion of addiction. The way that the ring pervades him, makes him craving, lustful, depletes him physically, psychologically and mentally.

  

  Andy Serkis
  • Addiction

• A group of protesters who are very unhappy at the rapid expansion of Starbucks have been repeatedly smashing the windows of a Starbucks store in Maine. Customers say it's been really inconvenient because, several times now, they've had to use the Starbucks across the street.

  

  Conan O'Brien
  • Customers
  • Expansion
  • Protesters

• Congress can protect small businesses by providing effective oversight over SBA policies and make sure they take into account the needs of small businesses while also protecting taxpayer dollars. Congress also needs to make sure that new banking regulations do not make it more costly for community banks to lend to small businesses.

  

  Sam Graves
  • Small
  • Community
  • Banking

• About 1883 something like a break occurred in my work. I had reached the end of 'impressionism,' and I had come to realize that I did not know how to paint or draw.

  

  Auguste Renoir
  • Work
  • Paint
  • Impressionism

• I want my music to sound like throwing yourself out of a tree, or off a tall building, or as if you’re being sucked down into the ocean and you can’t breathe… It’s something overwhelming and all-encompassing that fills you up, and you’re either going to explode with it, or you’re just going to disappear.

  

  Florence Welch Florence and the Machine
  • Music
  • Breathe
  • Disappear

• If she could breathe then it could be heard, but she was breathless.

  

  Elizabeth Scott
  • Breathe
  • Breathless