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

• 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

• Sanity, it would seem, was a dangerously contagious disease.

  

  H. Beam Piper
  • Disease
  • Sanity
  • Contagious

• You've just had the most imponderable joy of watching charlieissocoollike, which makes you, like, cool.

  

  Stephen Fry
  • Joy

• The thing about Memphis is that it's pleasingly off-kilter. It's a great big whack job of a city. The anti-Atlanta. You go there, and you can't believe the things people will say, the way they think, the wobbling orbits of their lives. There's an essential otherness.

  

  Hampton Sides
  • People
  • Great
  • Believe

• Now pray tell me what Time is? ...Time (to speak abstractedly) is the continuance of any Thing in its own Being. But some Things continue longer in their Beings than others... Time absolutely... is Quantity, as admitting in some Manner the chief Affections of Quantity: Equality, Inequality, and Proportion...

  

  Isaac Barrow
  • Time
  • Equality

• What time has been wasted during man's destiny in the struggle to decide what man's next world will be like! The keener the effort to find out, the less he knew about the present one he lived in.

  

  Sean O'Casey
  • World
  • Effort
  • Struggle

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

  

  Elizabeth Scott
  • Breathe
  • Breathless