Elizabeth von Arnim Quotes
I'm sure it's wrong to go on being good for too long, till one gets miserable. And I can see you've been good for years and years, because you look so unhappy.
Quotes to Explore
-
I like the fact that Austin's the first place I've ever lived where there's a real sense of community. People care about their neighbors.
-
Age is just a number. Unless, that is, you live in Hollywood, where there's this notion that if you haven't hit it big by your 20s, you may as well hit the road.
-
To die, to be really dead, that must be glorious. There are far worse things awaiting man than death.
-
Thought is the labor of the intellect, reverie is its pleasure.
-
My mother took great relish in introducing me as 'This is my son - he's a doctor but not the kind that helps people.'
-
Barack Obama's victories in 2008 and 2012 were dismissed by some of his critics as merely symbolic for African Americans. But there is nothing 'mere' about symbols.
-
I was in a music class when I was little, and they discovered I had a talent and could sing. From there, I joined this singing troupe in California, and I would just go sing at festivals in this girl group and perform as much as I could.
-
The great American novel has not only already been written, it has already been rejected.
-
The maximum expression of running dogs is the Iditarod. You enter a state of primitive exaltation, and you never return. You're never normal again.
-
Authors are influenced by everything they've ever read. If you've read widely enough, it helps you create your own mix.
-
Live in the world like a waterfowl. The water clings to the bird, but the bird shakes it off. Live in the world like a mudfish. The fish lives in the mud, but its skin is always bright and shiny.
-
If you still think me mad, you will think so no longer when I describe the wise precautions I took for the concealment of the body. The night waned, and I worked hastily, but in silence. First of all I dismembered the corpse. I cut off the head and the arms and the legs.
-
Another busy day! So let’s to business. The clock moves forward; wasted time is life defeated!
-
Fire hath its force abated by water, not by wind; and anger must be allayed by cold words, and not by blustering threats.
-
I am not interested in picking up crumbs of compassion thrown from the table of someone who considers himself my master. I want the full menu of rights.
-
I've worked with Lil Wayne and Wiz, but I'd like to work with Snoop next. I love 'Paid tha Cost to Be da Boss' and 'Doggystyle' and pretty much anything he puts out. And Ice Cube - like, all the legends.
-
I always ask the question: As more Africans are going online, are they finding content that is meaningful and relevant to them, or are they just consuming from everywhere else. As Africans, we have the capacity to generate our own content.
-
We always project into the future or reflect in the past, but we are so little in the present.
-
Weather is uncontrollable. Only the Lord above can control the weather. Whatever we get, we have to work with.
-
Abstainer, n. A weak person who yields to the temptation of denying himself a pleasure. A total abstainer is one who abstains from everything but abstention, and especially from inactivity in the affairs of others.
-
We completely support Commissioner Silver's decision today regarding Clippers owner Donald Sterling, and praise him for his prompt investigation and action.
-
There is only one thing which can master the perplexed stuff of epic material into unity; and that is, an ability to see in particular human experience some significant symbolism of man's general destiny.
-
I'm sure it's wrong to go on being good for too long, till one gets miserable. And I can see you've been good for years and years, because you look so unhappy.
