Elizabeth Scott Quotes

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

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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

• 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

• 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

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

  

  Arthur Keith
  • Life

• The double bind lowers its boom on women in positions of authority, so those who haven't yet risen to such positions have not yet felt its full weight.

  

  Deborah Tannen
  • Women

• The candidacy of Donald Trump is the open sewer of American conservatism.

  

  Bret Stephens
  • American
  • Trump

• I never thought about writing a novel until I was 13, and that happened by chance. I was on school holidays, and I was bored, and I thought I just wanted to do something to occupy myself instead of asking, 'What can I do, mum? Entertain me.' I started, and it really just took over, and I realised, 'Wow, this is an amazing experience.'

  

  Alexandra Adornetto
  • Writing
  • School
  • Experience

• If you apologize to me, I look at it as an insult because my parents, my grandparents, my great-grandparents, like every other culture out there, did exactly what they needed to do. They worked hard, and they became part of the American way, and they earned the respect of Americans across the board. We need to do the same.

  

  Burgess Owens
  • Great
  • American
  • Parents

• YouTube is a platform, a distribution vehicle.

  

  Steve Chen
  • YouTube
  • Distribution
  • Platform

• One of us sings in the street, and we listen to him;The words ring over us like vague bells of sorrow.He sings of a house he lived in long ago.It is strange; this house of dust was the house I lived in;The house you lived in, the house that all of us know.

  

  Conrad Aiken
  • Long
  • House
  • Words

• When I was twelve, I started reading Eudora Welty, Thomas Wolfe, Flannery O'Connor, James Agee, and - do we dare breathe the name - William Faulkner.

  

  Frances Mayes
  • Reading
  • Name
  • Breathe

• Don't pile your tomatoes in a container that doesn't breathe. I like my baskets or grass mesh plates, and I layer them single deep, stem end down to prevent bruises and premature rotting.

  

  Andrew Zimmern
  • Single
  • Deep
  • Breathe

• You couldn't breathe. The lights didn't work and the radio transmitters would emit this incredibly high-pitched white noise.

  

  Ben Affleck
  • Work
  • High
  • Breathe

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

  

  Elizabeth Scott
  • Breathe
  • Breathless