Elizabeth von Arnim Quotes

... Why, it would really be being unselfish to go away and be happy for a little, because we would come back so much nicer.

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• For me to be here tonight, everything had to be perfect. I had to get drafted by Utah, had to play with a point guard like John Stockton, and had to be coached by Jerry Sloan and Frank Layden.

  

  Karl Malone
  • Me
  • Perfect
  • Play

• One of my side strange abilities is to hear a good song, no matter how it's being performed. Even if you get a bad performance, I can still hear that there's a good song.

  

  Manfred Mann
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Song

• I'm an emotional actor. When I'm doing a scene, I really believe it. I live the part as long as I'm in the scene.

  

  Victor Mature
  • Believe
  • Long
  • Live

• I love the game of hockey. I love being part of it. I think I know a lot about the game.

  

  Patrick Kane
  • Love
  • Game
  • Hockey

• I started writing movie scripts. They excited me a lot, but I didn't like them when they were finished because they were simple copies of the films I saw in childhood.

  

  Manuel Puig
  • Writing
  • Movie
  • Simple

• That's a comic cover's job: Attract someone's attention and persuade them to try the issue out.

  

  Adam Hughes
  • Job
  • Attention
  • Try

• Bragging about yourself violates norms of modesty and politeness - and if you were really competent, your work would speak for itself.

  

  Adam Grant
  • Work
  • Yourself
  • Speak

• I always love China, especially the old China.

  

  Manolo Blahnik
  • Love
  • Always
  • Old

• I have to look at my career as 'it was what it was,' but I do wish there was more of it.

  

  Daniel Bryan
  • Career
  • Wish
  • Look

• I can go to any restaurant without a reservation, but while I'm there, everyone's gonna be staring.

  

  Macaulay Culkin
  • Everyone
  • Restaurant

• It's a little bit in the genes because my brother is a journalist and my father was a sports writer.

  

  Patricia Heaton
  • Father
  • Sports
  • Brother

• Sometimes there’s no point in giving up.

  

  Larry Niven
  • Up
  • Giving

• She doesn't get to say much in the official biography - I believe they are out of wine, etc., practical things - watching with one eye as he goes about the world calling himself The Son Of Man.

  

  Anne Carson
  • World
  • Believe
  • She

• Making movies is about creating illusions, and they can be subtle illusions, but it's all a cumulative effect as you make these little tweaks. It kinda adds up to something, hopefully.

  

  Jeff Bridges
  • Up

• Now, so, if you want to blame someone for wasteful spending, the Republicans are in the majority.

  Chaka Fattah

• It's difficult to write about poverty in a way that doesn't feel cliched.

  

  Jake Halpern
  • Poverty

• I'm especially keen to work with good scriptwriters on stories we have developed.

  

  Jiang Wen
  • Good
  • Work

• Tyranny or slavery, born of selfishness, are the two educational methods of parents; all gradations of tyranny or slavery.

  

  Franz Kafka
  • Parents
  • Slavery

• I feel like this is a bit strange being in here, though. I am a happy person, generally. I like a laugh. Don't I seem to be a happy person?

  

  Mary Hansen
  • Happy
  • Person
  • Strange

• Most women I know love the idea of fashion, but the practicalities that go with it are just distressing.

  

  Caitlin Moran
  • Women
  • Know
  • Fashion

• Being born in Cuba, a country where freedom of speech is non-existent, it's startling to observe how Venezuela, where I was happily raised, is fast becoming Cuba's mirror image: Dismantling of fundamental democratic rights deserved by its people and citizens of the world.

  

  Maria Conchita Alonso
  • People
  • World
  • Country

• To give prayer the secondary place is to make God seconday in life's affairs.

  

  Edward McKendree Bounds
  • Life
  • God
  • Prayer

• In terms of hardline right-wing people on television, there's some people that make me cringe when I change the channel.

  

  Chris Carmack
  • People
  • Television
  • Terms of hardline

• ... Why, it would really be being unselfish to go away and be happy for a little, because we would come back so much nicer.

  

  Elizabeth von Arnim
  • Happy
  • Comeback
  • Go Away