Elizabeth Swados Quotes

It's all the same when you're lonely.

Elizabeth Swados

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• My look is either very baroque or very Zen - everything in between makes me itch.

  

  Iris Apfel
  • Me
  • Look
  • Everything

• The hijab is a symbol that we wear on our heads, but I want people to know that it is my choice. I'm doing it because I want to do it. I wanted people to see that you could still be really cute and modest at the same time.

  

  Halima Aden
  • People
  • Time
  • Same

• All I can say is, I don't talk about the personal stuff. It's the one thing you can keep to yourself. At least you try to.

  

  Rachel Bilson
  • Yourself
  • Try
  • Talk

• I find that I can't work and listen to radio – either I find I don't like it and it distracts me, or I do like it and I want to listen to it.

  

  Quentin Blake
  • Work
  • Like
  • Listen

• I don't like the word 'urban' because I think it's a bit of a generalisation and they use it to class music, but I don't think it's a word that necessarily classes music.

  

  Taio Cruz
  • Music
  • Think
  • Like

• It's definitely a necessity to make split-second decisions when you're doing gymnastics because things don't always go perfect.

  

  Jacob Dalton
  • Perfect
  • Doing
  • Decisions

• I don't sit there writing songs, thinking, 'This would be good for Rihanna.' I don't want to be pitching out like that.

  

  Sam Smith
  • Good
  • Thinking
  • Writing

• I think I have enough of a sense to know what works for me and what doesn't, without going into some big thing and analyzing what I do. I'm in a position that allows me to do what I want to do, and I do it.

  

  Eddie Murphy
  • Want
  • Know
  • Sense

• In the one defence, briefly, we accept responsibility but deny that it was bad: in the other, we admit that it was bad but don't accept full, or even any, responsibility.

  

  J. L. Austin
  • Bad
  • Responsibility
  • Admit

• Advancement only comes with habitually doing more than you are asked.

  

  Gary Ryan Blair
  • You
  • Doing
  • More

• I kind of like being depressed.

  

  Nate Ruess Fun.
  • Kind
  • Like
  • Being

• Art hath an enemy call'd ignorance.

  

  Ben Jonson
  • Art
  • Enemy
  • Ignorance

• Standing alone,eager to just believe,it's good enough to be what you really are,but in your heart,uncertainty forever lies,and you'll always be,somewhere on the outside.

  

  Mariah Carey
  • Good
  • Believe
  • Heart

• If it ain't a mess, it'll do till the mess gets here.

  

  Cormac McCarthy

• I love performing on stage the most. It's getting that instant reaction from a live audience. There are no boundaries, you can take your character as far as you want to, you can be the craziest person ever.

  

  Jennifer Ellison
  • Live
  • Character

• There is no shame is being ambivalent about almost everything in your life.

  

  Louis Theroux
  • Life

• We're journalists, and so it's our job to be impartial and provide a fair and thorough assessment of what's happening on the ground from the perspective of what we're able to see.

  

  Clarissa Ward
  • Job
  • Perspective

• I wish I had been wiser. I wish I had been more effective, I wish I'd been more unifying, I wish I'd been more principled.

  

  Bill Ayers
  • Wish

• Waiting for God is not laziness. Waiting for God is not the abandonment of effort. Waiting for God means, first, activity under command; second, readiness for any new command that may come; third, the ability to do nothing until the command is given.

  

  G. Campbell Morgan
  • God
  • May
  • Effort

• Northern Sweden holds a special kind of magic. It's cold, lonely, and the people are tough and silent, or so the stereotype says. This is Asa Larsson's home turf and I find as much joy in reading her closely observed descriptions of the environment, as in following her intriguing plots.

  

  Camilla Lackberg
  • People
  • Home
  • Reading

• I think that ethical behaviour is another feature of the kind of inner discipline that leads to a happier existence.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Discipline

• I love being Southern because of the people and the fans we have. People down here are more friendly - really warm people.

  

  Gary Rossington Lynyrd Skynyrd
  • People

• Creativity is essential to any kind of joyful living. Sometimes I act, sometimes I draw, I paint, I write poems. I can't imagine living without it.

  

  Zephyr Teachout
  • Creativity

• It's all the same when you're lonely.

  

  Elizabeth Swados
  • Lonely