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.

Elizabeth von Arnim

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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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• The wise person often shuns society for fear of being bored.

  

  Jean de la Bruyere
  • Society
  • Fear
  • Wise

• My parents were intelligent and encouraging, but at the same time, they were displeased at me becoming a wandering troubadour and wire walker.

  

  Philippe Petit
  • Time
  • Parents
  • Intelligent

• Love is never not going to be a problem.

  

  Annaleigh Ashford

• I would consider all of the legislation which I have supported meaningless if I were to sit idly by, silent, during a period which may go down in history as an era when we permitted the curtailment of our liberties.

  

  Dennis Chavez
  • May
  • History
  • Period

• Water is commonly regarded as the 'solvent of life,' since our bodies are 70% water. All other vertebrates, invertebrates, microbes, and plants are also primarily water. The organization of water within biological compartments is fundamental to life, and the aquaporins serve as the plumbing systems for cells.

  

  Peter Agre
  • Life
  • Water
  • Organization

• Once I decide to do something, I can't have people telling me I can't. If there's a roadblock, you jump over it, walk around it, crawl under it.

  

  Kitty Kelley
  • People
  • Jump

• Sometimes, especially when it's cold, I get dry skin, so I scratch a lot. I scratch my arms incessantly.

  

  Zac Efron
  • Sometimes
  • Cold
  • Skin

• I'll tell you God's truth: I think that this script that Neil has written - 'Odd Couple Two,' I think, is superior to the original one - to the first one.

  

  Jack Lemmon
  • God
  • Truth
  • Think

• Listen, here's the thing about an English degree - if you sat somebody down and asked them to make a list of the writers they admire over the last hundred years, see how many of them got a degree in English.

  

  David Mamet
  • English

• When we were courting, I told my wife: 'I could live in your eyes.' She said: 'You'd be at home; there's a stye in one of them.'

  

  Les Dawson
  • Live
  • Home
  • She

• ... 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