Elizabeth von Arnim Quotes
Beginnings were not suitable, she felt, after a certain age, especially not for women. Mothers of the married, such as herself and Mrs. Cumfrit, should be concerned rather with endings than beginnings.
Elizabeth von Arnim
Quotes to Explore
It is by a wise economy of nature that those who suffer without change, and whom no one can help, become uninteresting. Yet so it may happen that those who need sympathy the most often attract it the least.
F. H. Bradley
When I was 14, I was a passenger in a terrible accident.
Quincy Jones
For someone with a background of economic justice, what scared me about climate change is not just that the sea level will rise and we'll have more storms - it's how this intersects with that cocktail of inequality and racism.
Naomi Klein
When you get older, two things happen to you. You begin to lose your hearing, and I forget what the other one is.
M. Stanton Evans
I never, by any regard, ever denied any part of my family roots.
Carlene Carter
Work is so much fun that it doesn't really seem like downtime when I'm not. But cooking, spending time with my family, friends and dog are what I'm usually doing when I'm not working on something.
Bailee Madison
I get angry real quick, but I also cool down just as fast. Albanians don't want to deal with anything in the moment.
Action Bronson
The one self-knowledge worth having is to know one's own mind.
F. H. Bradley
About once every four days, someone comes up to me and is like, 'Hey, I know you from somewhere.'
Carla Gallo
My mother was from Mississippi, or is from 'Mississippi;' my father was from Alabama. He speaks about conditions in Mississippi and Alabama. They were really the poster children for the bad public laws that segregated, according to race, in our country.
Faye Wattleton
If I could make albums quicker, I'd be on a roll wouldn't I? Everything just seems to take so much time. I don't know why. Time... evaporates.
Kate Bush
Bebop and hip-hop, in so many ways, they're connected. A lot of rappers remind me so much of bebop guys in terms of improvisation, beats and rhymes. My dream is to see hip-hop incorporated in education. You've got the youth of the world in the palm of your hand.
Quincy Jones
Religion is inwardly focused and driven only to sustain itself.
Kary Mullis
As I grew up and began identifying myself as a feminist, there were plenty of issues that continued to make me question marriage: the father 'giving' the bride away, women taking their husband's last name, the white dress, the vows promising to 'obey' the groom. And that only covers the wedding.
Jessica Valenti
Men are not amusing during the shooting season; but, after all, my dear, men were not especially designed to amuse women.
Gertrude Atherton
It's easy to make a film, but it's hard to make a career of being a filmmaker.
Ira Sachs
Forward, always moving forward, from the time I can remember - a kid. I was short, and the big guys would take advantage; I had to turn myself into a body puncher. By that time I was in reform school, they'd have a boxing match every week; they'd bring guys in from outside to fight me.
Jake LaMotta
Beginnings were not suitable, she felt, after a certain age, especially not for women. Mothers of the married, such as herself and Mrs. Cumfrit, should be concerned rather with endings than beginnings.
Elizabeth von Arnim
