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

• No one really wants to admit they are lonely, and it is never really addressed very much between friends and family. But I have felt lonely many times in my life.

  

  Bill Murray
  • Life
  • Family
  • Friends

• I think, with music in general, people just inevitably connect with feeling. The opportunity to hear expressed feeling. And that's what has always drawn me towards music. It's something where, by connecting to someone else's voice, I feel less lonely. I feel more alive. I feel more connected to the world and to the rest of humanity. Sometimes a voice can be like a lifeline.

  

  Antony Hegarty Antony and the Johnsons
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Opportunity

• A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Minds
  • Little
  • Consistency

• When I played God Bless The Queen, I was wondering if they was gonna dig us, then quite naturally I'd go on and try to get it together.

  

  Jimi Hendrix The Jimi Hendrix Experience
  • God Bless The Queen

• Here's a newsflash from the only High Preistess you have left at this dang school: Zoey isn't dead. And believe me, I know dead. I've been there, done that, and got the frickin' T-shirt." - Stevie Rae

  

  P. C. Cast
  • Believe
  • School
  • Done

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

  

  Elizabeth Swados
  • Lonely