Elizabeth von Arnim Quotes

I would have all couples neatly paired in years, the forties with the forties, and the twenties with the twenties. Should the forties, as sometimes happens, not care about other forties, and wish to frequent twenties, in their own interests they should be discouraged, and equally those twenties should be discouraged who, with the inexperience of their age, suppose they could be lastingly happy with forties.

Elizabeth von Arnim

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• When you're 14, anything with a sword and a dragon is pretty cool. But when you're 21 and you've read 2,000 fantasy novels, you start to realize that some of those books, well, they weren't really good. OK, let's be honest. A lot of them were crap.

  

  Patrick Rothfuss
  • Good
  • Pretty
  • Cool

• You know, I look to myself mainly as a creative writer all my life and a medical doctor.

  

  Nawal El Saadawi
  • Life
  • Myself
  • Medical

• In the studio, I'm always throwing people on different instruments.

  

  Beck
  • People
  • Different
  • Studio

• I think Sydney has so much natural beauty; it's just a beautiful city.

  

  Flume
  • Beautiful
  • City
  • Beauty

• I feel like I've set the example for loving your body no matter what size it is, but I also can set the example for being healthy as well.

  

  Queen Latifah
  • Body
  • Healthy
  • Size

• In all God's plans for human redemption, He proposes that men pray. The men are to pray in every place, in the church, in the closet, in the home, on sacred days and on secular days.

  

  Edward McKendree Bounds
  • God
  • Men
  • Home

• The days that you record by yourself, you feel like a crazy person because you're saying the same line, 10 different ways, or they ask you for 10 different grunting sounds and you just feel like such a schmuck. It's crazy! When there's other people there, it tethers you to something, in a nice way.

  

  Zach Woods
  • People
  • Different
  • Nice

• O sweet spontaneous earth how often has the naughty thumb of science prodded thy beauty thou answereth them only with spring.

  

  e. e. cummings
  • Science
  • Earth
  • Sweet

• There have been many men who left behind them that which hundreds of years have not worn out. The earth has Socrates and Plato to this day. The world is richer yet by Moses and the old prophets than by the wisest statesmen. We are indebted to the past. We stand in the greatness of ages that are gone rather than in that of our own. But of how many of us shall it be said that, being dead, we yet speak?

  

  Henry Ward Beecher
  • Earth
  • Plato
  • Socrates

• All they have to do is spend a little bit of money and change the mold (of the ball) and let the ball go back 30 yards. There are no such things as par-5s now really in professional golf, unless they move the tees back.

  

  Gary Player
  • Money
  • Change
  • Mold

• Literature at its fullest takes human nature as its theme. That's the kind of writing that interests me.

  

  Damon Galgut
  • Writing
  • Nature
  • Literature

• It is also in the interests of a tyrant to make his subjects poo...the people are so occupied with their daily tasks that they have no time for plotting.

  

  Aristotle
  • People
  • Time
  • Interests

• I'm the guy who plays human beings. I understand why the characters are doing what they're doing. When you play a villain, you don't play a villain: you play a human being doing what he thinks he needs to do to get what he wants.

  

  Eddie Marsan
  • Why
  • Guy
  • Doing

• Ruefully admitting we can neither remain children nor all become artists still less saints and mystics, we turn back, regretfully, but massively, to the time-ridden world.

  

  Alan McGlashan
  • World
  • Children
  • Artists

• I would have all couples neatly paired in years, the forties with the forties, and the twenties with the twenties. Should the forties, as sometimes happens, not care about other forties, and wish to frequent twenties, in their own interests they should be discouraged, and equally those twenties should be discouraged who, with the inexperience of their age, suppose they could be lastingly happy with forties.

  

  Elizabeth von Arnim
  • Interests
  • Inexperience
  • Forties