Elizabeth von Arnim Quotes
I love tulips better than any other spring flower; they are the embodiment of alert cheerfulness and tidy grace, and next to a hyacinth look like a wholesome, freshly tubbed young girl beside a stout lady whose every movement weighs down the air with patchouli. Their faint, delicate scent is refinement itself; and is there anything in the world more charming than the sprightly way they hold up their little faces to the sun. I have heard them called bold and flaunting, but to me they seem modest grace itself, only always on the alert to enjoy life as much as they can and not be afraid of looking the sun or anything else above them in the face.
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As a novelist, I ask of myself only that I tell the truth and that I tell it beautifully.
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There's a long history of private-company cooperation with the NSA that dates back to at least the 1970s.
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In my view, Indian Railways has immense untapped potential.
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After the revolution, it might very well remain necessary to place people where they could not do harm to others. But the one under restraint should be cut off from the rest of society as little as possible.
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I don't want to be involved in endless media gossip.
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Everybody around the world wants to send their kids to our universities. But nobody wants to send their kids here to public school.
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But I'm so slow on it because I find it terribly hard writing blind on computers. The computer speaks to me, but it's just so slow, I'm so terribly slow using it.
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The word 'leukemia' is a very frightening word. In many instances, it's a killer and it's something that you have to deal with in a very serious and determined way if you're going to beat it.
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We tell applicants, 'If you don't intend to be here for life, you needn't apply.'
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Throughout out history, when people have looked for new ways to solve their problems, and to uphold the principles of this nation, many times they have turned to political parties. They have often turned to the Democratic Party.
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When you're playing the good guy, you want to find the dirty parts - and when you're playing the bad guy, you want to find the vulnerability.
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That's the miracle of fiction. I use it to spray on certain moments or places from my youth.
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You can tell all our songs come from us and from our artists, the people we write with and travel with.
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Do we need Medicare reform? Yes we do.
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We have a positive vision of the future founded on the belief that the gap between the promise and reality of America can one day be finally closed. We believe that.
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'It's a gift!' he said. He was referring to his art, and also to the result; but he was using the word quite literally.
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It was not a fashionable place, but even among the pleasant people there, the girls made few friends, preferring to live for one another.
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A hush is over everything, Silent as women wait for love; The world is waiting for the spring.
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There is not one female comic who was beautiful as a little girl.
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When somebody challenges you, fight back. Be brutal, be tough.
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When Peter Jackson made the 'Lord of the Rings' movies, I remember there was a concern that people who didn't read Tolkien wouldn't go see the first one. But the films were so good in their own right that the audience grew beyond the readership of the book.
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I want to do things right. I really, really do.
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I love tulips better than any other spring flower; they are the embodiment of alert cheerfulness and tidy grace, and next to a hyacinth look like a wholesome, freshly tubbed young girl beside a stout lady whose every movement weighs down the air with patchouli. Their faint, delicate scent is refinement itself; and is there anything in the world more charming than the sprightly way they hold up their little faces to the sun. I have heard them called bold and flaunting, but to me they seem modest grace itself, only always on the alert to enjoy life as much as they can and not be afraid of looking the sun or anything else above them in the face.
