Elizabeth Swados Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
My look is either very baroque or very Zen - everything in between makes me itch.
-
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.
-
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.
-
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.
-
I don't sit there writing songs, thinking, 'This would be good for Rihanna.' I don't want to be pitching out like that.
-
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.
-
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.
-
I kind of like being depressed.
-
Art hath an enemy call'd 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.
-
If it ain't a mess, it'll do till the mess gets here.
-
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.
-
There is no shame is being ambivalent about almost everything in your 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.
-
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.
-
Fashion means never to look too much backwards. It always needs to go forwards.
-
Perhaps we Germans are a bit sensitive when it comes to walls and race.
-
Especially among journalists, politics is not a pursuit that's held in high esteem. We tend to be cynical about it - but I actually believe in democracy.
-
The day when efficacy would prevail over truth will never come for the Church, for then the gates of hell would have prevailed against her.
-
Beauty is ever to the lonely mind a shadow fleeting; she is never plain. She is a visitor who leaves behind the gift of grief, the souvenir of pain.
-
'Is it a wicked thing, then?''I should call it a misunderstanding, rather. A misunderstanding of life. Death and life are the same thing-like the two sides of my hand, the palm and the back. And still the palm and the back are not the same...They can be neither separated, nor mixed.'
-
What if Whitney was at her top, and we brought in a name like Whitney Houston, it would sell.
-
I work for me, 18 hours a day. It's my gig. So I don't have time to get a point of view.
-
It's all the same when you're lonely.
