Elizabeth von Arnim Quotes
When Michael Frere came to see Elizabeth about her autobiography All the Dogs of My Life she found him ‘such a boring little man. But it is because we are all growing old, and the bones of our inadequate minds come through the flesh that hid them.’ She hadn’t always found him boring, and Love, one of her best novels, is largely based on their romance.Elizabeth von Arnim
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I never took hallucinogenic drugs because I never wanted my consciousness expanded one unnecessary iota.
Fran Lebowitz -
Take a very small amount of money, your throwaway money, treat it as if it's already gone, you've mentally set it on fire, and put it in some distribution of a few truly legit layer 1 blockchains.
Naval Ravikant -
You know, I'm kind of a wild crazy workaholic guy.
Randy Jackson Breakfast Club -
All I suggest is to make K-12 like higher education. Higher education in the United States is the best in the world because these institutions compete with each other for your tuition dollar. Let's just bring competition to public education.
Gary Johnson -
I don't get hung up a lot on angst.
Karin Slaughter -
Maybe that's what life is... a wink of the eye and winking stars.
Jack Kerouac
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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 -
I prayed like a man walking in a forest at night, feeling his way with his hands, at each step fearing to fall into pure bottomlessness forever. Prayer is like lying awake at night, afraid, with your head under the cover, hearing only the beating of your own heart.
Wendell Berry -
I feel like I've exhausted guys and male friendships.
Irvine Welsh -
Yes, I did feel a special responsibility to be the first American woman in space.
Sally Ride -
I know, as an actor, you have to negotiate, but I can't handle the whole idea that art and commerce are synonymous. It drives me nuts.
Sam Shepard -
Creative people are more prone to depression.
Adam Ant Adam and the Ants
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I'm very involved in the writing on every level.
Fran Drescher -
The Internet offers an interesting combination of advertising and community by participating in the community you can become an advertisement for yourself.
Walter Jon Williams -
I think most people's careers in theater are based on delusion. It's just that mine started early.
Wayne Knight -
It is not proper to project our feelings onto things or to attribute our own sensations and passions to them. Can it also be improper to see in them a guide, a way of life?
Octavio Paz -
I'm gonna sing, and I'm going to make me a lot of money.
Sam Cooke -
My 2020 Vision for India is to transform it into a developed nation. That cannot be abstract; it is a lifeline.
A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
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I'm very affected by what I watch and read.
Paloma Faith -
Every nation makes decisions based on self-interest and defends them on the basis of morality.
William Sloane Coffin -
One may be clogged with honey and unable to rise and fly.
Elizabeth Gaskell -
'Show up at the desk' is one of the first rules of writing, but for 'Wolf Hall' I was about 30 years late.
Hilary Mantel -
When Michael Frere came to see Elizabeth about her autobiography All the Dogs of My Life she found him ‘such a boring little man. But it is because we are all growing old, and the bones of our inadequate minds come through the flesh that hid them.’ She hadn’t always found him boring, and Love, one of her best novels, is largely based on their romance.
Elizabeth von Arnim