Elizabeth von Arnim Quotes

Was she the same person to-night as last night? Was she two persons? If she was only one, which one? Or was she a mere vessel of receptiveness, a transparent vessel into which other people poured their view of her, and she instantly reflected the exact colour of their opinion?

Elizabeth von Arnim

• Opinion
• View
• Vessel
• Reflected
• Receptiveness

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• My favorite makeup look was for my 'Eyes Wide Open' video done by Torsten Witte. It was so dramatic and definitely captured the magic of the video.

  

  Sabrina Carpenter
  • Done
  • Eyes
  • Magic

• This field is not necessarily glamorous, nor does it often produce immediate results, but it seeks to increase our basic understanding of living processes.

  

  Aaron Klug
  • Understanding
  • Living
  • Field

• We are so Post-Modern that we don't realize how Post-Modern we are anymore.

  

  Larry Wall
  • Realize
  • How
  • Anymore

• I think socializing on the Internet is to socializing what reality TV is to reality.

  

  Aaron Sorkin
  • Think
  • Reality
  • Internet

• If the only thing you knew about Oman was its location, you might never go at all.

  

  Hanya Yanagihara
  • You
  • Never
  • Location

• There was a girl who messaged me and said she was on the verge of taking her life, then 'Battles' came on just in the nick of time.

  

  La'Porsha Renae
  • Life
  • Time
  • She

• I am nearly the worst role model for a healthy person. To me, a healthy person is someone in balance. Sometimes you eat hamburgers, sometimes salad; sometimes you move, sometimes you don't. I eat more healthily than unhealthily, but I do sometimes eat unhealthy food.

  

  Magnus Scheving
  • Food
  • Balance
  • Model

• Science is a beautiful gift to humanity; we should not distort it.

  

  A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  • Beautiful
  • Science
  • Humanity

• The truth about filmmaking is you have all these ideas and you're trying to convince everybody that they should buy into this idea, but at two o'clock in the morning when you're all on your own you're going, 'Geez, I hope I know what I'm doing. I hope this idea is gonna work.'

  

  Gavid Hood
  • Work
  • Trying
  • Truth

• Everything I have in this world, I owe to the sport of boxing, and I won't ever forget that.

  

  Oscar De La Hoya
  • World
  • Forget
  • Boxing

• Martin Scorsese, everything he does, I've got to see. And Jack Nicholson, I've got to see what he does.

  

  Nathaniel Philbrick
  • See
  • Everything
  • Got

• Radio news is bearable. This is due to the fact that while the news is being broadcast, the disk jockey is not allowed to talk.

  

  Fran Lebowitz
  • News
  • Talk
  • Radio

• We are fully aware that, in a world at war, each set of belligerents is over ready to regard those who are not with them as against them; but the course we have followed is a just course.

  

  Eamon de Valera
  • World
  • War
  • Ready

• I always thought it was sad that you couldn't get anything really good to eat at concerts, so we sit down with our fans before every show and eat a gourmet meal that we made for them.

  

  Zac Brown Band
  • Good
  • Thought
  • Sad

• Further, the dignity of the science itself seems to require that every possible means be explored for the solution of a problem so elegant and so celebrated.

  

  Carl Friedrich Gauss
  • Science
  • Problem
  • Solution

• I don't really get to see a lot of other comedians, because I work with the same people all the time. The guy I really like is Nick DiPaulo. I love Nick DiPaulo, but again, he's a buddy of mine. But I liked him for a long time. I liked him before he was a buddy of mine.

  

  Larry the Cable Guy
  • People
  • Time
  • Work

• Economic disasters or foolish wars are hardly guaranteed to bring about large-scale individual self-examination or renew the appeal of truly participatory democracy.

  

  Pankaj Mishra
  • Democracy
  • Individual
  • Renew

• A lot of the girls were awful, very catty. It was a competitive environment that I didn't like. You have no idea of the anorexia I saw around me.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • Idea
  • Girls
  • Awful

• I was born in Ballaghadreen, but I grew up in Galway, and when I went to the University College of Galway, I became involved in the drama society there and started directing plays.

  

  Garry Hynes
  • Up
  • Society
  • College

• I don't need to punish people for sin. Sin is its own punishment, devouring you from the inside. It's not my purpose to punish it; it's my joy to cure it.

  

  William P. Young
  • People
  • Joy
  • Purpose

• I get angry if I do things wrong, but that's what keeps me going. I want to do my best.

  

  Matteo Manassero
  • Angry

• She seemed to have neither sense of fullness nor taste, and would often combine foods in manners that struck Blue as problematic. She didn't believe in telling people how to live their lives (well, maybe a little), but it was hard to stand by and watch Gwenllian spread peanut butter on a cold hot dog.

  

  Maggie Stiefvater
  • People
  • Believe
  • Live

• Was she the same person to-night as last night? Was she two persons? If she was only one, which one? Or was she a mere vessel of receptiveness, a transparent vessel into which other people poured their view of her, and she instantly reflected the exact colour of their opinion?

  

  Elizabeth von Arnim
  • Opinion
  • View
  • Vessel