Elizabeth von Arnim Quotes

Well, I for one am unable to imagine how anybody who lives with an intelligent and devoted dog can every be lonely.

Elizabeth von Arnim

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• It is sort of boring to stay in the same spot. You know, I didn't set out to become the first to do this, the first to do that. It was just that my interests were so diversified.

  

  Barbra Streisand
  • Know
  • First
  • Boring

• Aesthetically, I don't really like the blond, tan thing. I am pale. So I may as well embrace the pale. Long, blond hair and a bad spray tan is the stuff of my nightmares.

  

  Rachael Taylor
  • Hair
  • Nightmares
  • Pale

• I started off first doing a TV series called 'Boston Common.' That was my first big job, and then I went on to do another half hour comedy show, and that was with Tom Arnold, called 'The Tom Show.'

  

  Tasha Smith
  • Job
  • Comedy
  • Doing

• I really love having conversations and deconstructing things. I don't mind not having a laugh every second. Sometimes things deserve a little more discussion, and then you can have some fun after that.

  

  Larry Wilmore
  • Mind
  • Fun
  • Things

• Especially if you're over 40, shortening the term of your loan to pay it off sooner could make you mortgage-free in retirement.

  

  Barbara Corcoran
  • Free
  • You
  • Retirement

• When the government takes more money out of the pockets of middle class Americans, entrepreneurs, and businesses, it lessens the available cash flow for people to spend on goods and services, less money to start businesses, and less money for businesses to expand - i.e. creating new jobs and hiring people.

  

  Fabrizio Moreira
  • People
  • Money
  • Government

• My parents had normal jobs, and I didn't just want to work all day, and so I thought if I could break into music I wouldn't have to work all day. And I had an uncle who was on Broadway, so I was like, 'I have to be able to sing.'

  

  Nate Ruess Fun.
  • Work
  • Music
  • Parents

• My favourite game is Postal because it is so politically incorrect.

  

  Uwe Boll
  • Game
  • Favourite
  • Postal

• I love what TLC did with the baggy pants. I love a lot of throwbacks.

  

  Bebe Rexha
  • Love
  • Lot
  • With

• Some people don't like my songs because they think they're too simple or easy or not that thought-out. I feel like the way I write is pretty simple, in some ways, because I'm trying to connect. I want a lot of people to hear it, and be moved in some way.

  

  Langhorne Slim
  • People
  • Trying
  • Pretty

• Every fool knoweth that hatreds are the cinders of affection.

  

  Walter Raleigh
  • Fool

• But Lord! to see the absurd nature of Englishmen, that cannot forbear laughing and jeering at every thing that looks strange.

  

  Samuel Pepys
  • Nature

• There aint but one truth, said John Grady. The truth is what happened. It aint what come out of somebody's mouth.

  

  Cormac McCarthy
  • Truth

• Romance is quite an overblown word. This idea of chocolates and champagne and that's it. There's more to love than that. Romance is quite a soppy word. Love is much more important.

  

  Joanna Lumley
  • Important
  • Champagne

• Walk into a Chase branch and we can give you so much quicker, better and faster. Like Wal-Mart.

  

  Jamie Dimon

• On climate change, we are told that there will be a civilization-ending development in the form of massive sea level rise as soon as 2050. Anybody plan to be here in 2050? I think a few of us do, myself included.

  

  Jill Stein
  • Sea

• I want to see people turn and writhe; make them feel things they cannot see and sometimes do not know.

  

  Anna Held
  • People

• By looking at the questions the kids are asking, we learn the scope of what needs to be done.

  

  Buffy Sainte-Marie
  • Done
  • Kids

• The dismal half-baked images of the average "reportage" and "documentary" photography are self dammning... the slick manner, the slightly obscure significance, the esoteric fear of simple beauty for its own sake - I am deeply concerned with these manifestations of decay. Gene Smith's work validates my most vigorous convictions that if the documentary photographs is to be truly effective it must contain elements of art, intensity, fine craft and spirituality. All these his work contains and we may turn to his work with gratitude, appreciation and great respect.

  

  Ansel Adams
  • Respect
  • Beauty
  • Photography

• This notion of changing technology interests me. I work on a computer now, and it's not been easy to adjust. I still prefer to have my hands on film when I'm editing.

  

  Hal Hartley
  • Work
  • Technology

• As strenuous challenge or contemplative retreat, the parks and other units of the national lands offer welcome respite from the world, a safety valve for body and spirit.

  

  T. H. Watkins
  • World
  • Nature
  • Challenge

• A woman has to be intelligent, have charm, a sense of humor, and be kind. It's the same qualities I require from a man.

  

  Catherine Deneuve
  • Man
  • Kind
  • Woman

• I kept a steel wall around my moral and sexual instincts - protecting them, I thought, from the threats of the real world. This gave me a tremendous advantage in politics, if not in my soul. The true me, my spiritual core, slipped further and further from reach.

  

  James McGreevey
  • World
  • Real
  • True

• Well, I for one am unable to imagine how anybody who lives with an intelligent and devoted dog can every be lonely.

  

  Elizabeth von Arnim
  • Dog
  • Intelligent
  • Imagine