Elizabeth von Arnim Quotes

Sometimes callers from a distance invade my solitude, and it is on these occasions that I realize how absolutely alone each individual is, and how far away from his neighbour; and while they talk (generally about babies, past, present, and to come), I fall to wondering at the vast and impassable distance that separates one's own soul from the soul of the person sitting in the next chair.

Elizabeth von Arnim

• Soul
• Distance
• Solitude
• Occasions
• Neighbour

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• I'm one of those people if you ask, 'What's your favourite song?' I'm going to give you five. I don't have just one favourite.

  

  Octavia Spencer
  • People
  • Song
  • You

• I've had completely gray hair since, like, 30.

  

  Larry Hogan
  • Like
  • Hair
  • Gray

• The more deeply connected you are with the people that you're working with, the better the work and the character, and then, I think, that really translates to life. It will help you in life to be more grounded and genuine.

  

  Cameron Mathison
  • People
  • Life
  • Work

• Starting in music, where I get a chance to connect with the lyrics of a song, I learned so much about performing on stage and connecting to your audience and to what you're singing about. Singing is very emotional. Every song has its own purpose.

  

  Naturi Naughton 3LW
  • Music
  • Song
  • Purpose

• I did 'Mad Men' and I still have people come up to me like, 'Are you actually a lesbian?' Really? Just because I play one on TV? People will think what they're gonna think.

  

  Zosia Mamet
  • People
  • Think
  • Play

• Fighting corruption is not a one-night affair.

  Olusegun Obasanjo
  • Night
  • Fighting
  • Corruption

• Someone who can write aphorisms should not fritter away his time in essays.

  

  Karl Kraus
  • Time
  • Write
  • Someone

• I wrote for magazines. I wrote adventure stuff, I wrote for the 'National Enquirer,' I wrote advertising copy for cemeteries.

  

  Walter Dean Myers
  • Adventure
  • Advertising
  • Copy

• Thinking withdraws radically and for its own sake from this world and its evidential nature, whereas science profits from a possible withdrawal for the sake of specific results.

  

  Hannah Arendt
  • World
  • Thinking
  • Nature

• A nightcap decked his brows instead of bay,A cap by night — a stocking all the day!

  

  Oliver Goldsmith
  • Night

• In French the truth of passion stood up coldly and cruelly to the scrutiny of human experience. In his own curious phrase he Pursewarden had always qualified it as 'an unsniggerable language'. (VIII)

  

  Lawrence Durrell
  • Up
  • Experience
  • Truth

• An ethic to supplement and guide the economic relation to land presupposes the existence of some mental image of land as a biotic mechanism.

  

  Aldo Leopold

• I say to everybody, love is what wakes you up in the morning, love is what makes you walk, and love is what makes you hope.

  

  Jerry Lewis
  • Up
  • Hope
  • Morning

• You have to create public activist pressure on papers like the 'New York Times' to keep them accountable.

  

  David Brock

• Yeah, I'd done a bunch of pilots. Some that had gone for a while. One that went for 13 episodes. But I had never been on a show that had lasted more than that.

  

  Donal Logue
  • Done

• I've never heard of anybody smoking a joint and going on a rampage. It makes you lie around on the floor and look at the ceiling. What's wrong with that?

  

  Billy Bob Thornton
  • Smoking

• I don't want to go around like some kind of bleeding giant or whatever, or thinking I'm a big deal, because it doesn't help you do your work. I think people like Hemingway got into an awful lot of trouble that way.

  

  Jim Harrison
  • People
  • Work
  • Thinking

• Congruence, integration, responsibility and integrity are the values that I stand for.

  

  Debbie Ford
  • Responsibility
  • Integrity

• I would never, ever in my life say, 'I want to go to Washington to heal the soul of Washington.'

  

  Marianne Williamson
  • Life
  • Soul
  • My Life

• The authentic self is the soul made visable.

  

  Sarah Ban Breathnach
  • Soul

• I'm just interested in serialization in fiction. I'm fascinated by it. I love the 19th-century novels. I'm interested in ways to bring that back to fiction.

  

  Jennifer Egan

• In 1978, I entered Tohoku University, into the Department of Electrical Engineering, Faculty of Technology.

  

  Koichi Tanaka
  • Technology
  • Engineering

• Prayer needs neither learning, wisdom or book knowledge to begin it. It needs nothing but heart and will.

  

  J. C. Ryle
  • Heart
  • Book
  • Knowledge

• Sometimes callers from a distance invade my solitude, and it is on these occasions that I realize how absolutely alone each individual is, and how far away from his neighbour; and while they talk (generally about babies, past, present, and to come), I fall to wondering at the vast and impassable distance that separates one's own soul from the soul of the person sitting in the next chair.

  

  Elizabeth von Arnim
  • Soul
  • Distance
  • Solitude