Elizabeth von Arnim Quotes
What a place for him who intends to pass an examination, to write a book, or who wants the crumples got by crushing together too long with his fellows to be smoothed out of his soul.
Elizabeth von Arnim
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People who don't know anything tend to make up fake rules, the real rules being considerably more difficult to learn.
Aaron Sorkin
Some is more equal than others, as is well known. It ain't that your majority is outnumbered, you're just out-surrounded.
Walt Kelly
See I'm a poet to some, a regular modern day Shakespeare.
Eminem
That song didn't just happen. It grew out of my experiences. 'American Pie' was part of my process of self-awakening: a mystical trip into my past.
Don McLean
I don't know any writer for whom it comes easily. Maybe John Updike - a story would just seem to come to him whole, you know, out of a personal experience. But the rest of us, I think, are not so lucky, and I had to work hard, yeah.
Philip Roth
Loving someone liberates the lover as well as the beloved. And that kind of love comes with age.
Maya Angelou
Twitter became a major place to find out what was breaking on the Internet. Facebook became a place to share links. Social media really grew up.
Kevin Rose
I'd be the best mum ever. I would. I've got great training from my mum.
Kelly Osbourne
The danger of dioxins in our environment, our food chain, and our bodies is difficult to illustrate, since they are not visible to the naked eye. My time in Vietnam allowed me to see the result of large quantities of them and therefore understand better the insidiousness of the smaller quantities that have found their way into our lives and bodies.
Jeremy Irons
If you're a cartoon character or most TV characters, sure, you'll fight, because the punches are juicy-sounding and they don't leave marks. But in real life, if somebody punches you in the eye, it doesn't make any noise and your eye is swollen for, like, six months. It's a nightmare to get punched in the eye.
Louis C. K.
What a place for him who intends to pass an examination, to write a book, or who wants the crumples got by crushing together too long with his fellows to be smoothed out of his soul.
Elizabeth von Arnim
