Elizabeth von Arnim Quotes

To Those Who Appreciate Wistaria and Sunshine. Small mediaeval Italian Castle on the shores of the Mediterranean to be Let furnished for the month of April. Necessary servants remain. Z, Box 1000, The Times.

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• Software-industry battles are fought by highly paid and out-of-shape nerds furiously pounding computer keyboards while they guzzle diet Coke. The stakes aren't very dramatic. Life? Liberty? The pursuit of happiness? Nope, it's about stock options.

  

  Nathan Myhrvold
  • Life
  • Happiness
  • Stock

• I didn't get into rap to be no lyrical genius. I got into rap to feed my family and help the people in need around me, that's it. A lot of people say, 'Man, Waka Flocka ain't go no lyrics,' so I was like, 'Yeah, you right!'

  

  Waka Flocka Flame
  • People
  • Family
  • Help

• Bosses will tell you they are looking for something different but they're not, actually.

  

  Ian McShane
  • Different
  • You
  • Looking

• Many of us will be obsessed with one or another kind of secret or revelation, be it gossip about friends or ourselves, a fantasy about spies, or a worry about the most personal information now stored in data banks. But few of us think about secrets in general, or about the moral rights and wrongs of hiding or exposing them.

  

  Ian Hacking
  • Friends
  • Worry
  • Moral

• I could scrape water off horses all day long. That would never get boring.

  

  Victoria Pendleton
  • Long
  • Day
  • Water

• Dreams are the expression of the unconscious while we are asleep.

  

  Nancy Friday
  • Dreams
  • Expression
  • While

• When you're growing up, you realize you've got a lot of heavy things on your shoulders.

  

  Nadia Comaneci
  • Up
  • Growing
  • Growing Up

• I wasn't tempted to go into academia for a second.

  

  Frances O'Connor
  • Go
  • Second
  • Academia

• By, say, 2025-2030, I expect that there will be multiple jurisdictions that allow the tokenization of virtually any scarce resource, all the way down to personal tokens.

  

  Balaji S. Srinivasan
  • Way
  • Down
  • Will

• Moderates want their faith respected. They don't want faith itself criticized, and yet faith itself is what is bringing us all this - this lunacy.

  

  Sam Harris
  • Want
  • Faith
  • Respected

• I love acting, but I'm not too crazy about money or fame. They don't drive me.

  

  Samantha Ruth Prabhu
  • Money
  • Love
  • Crazy

• We disapprove of parental hovering not because it won’t pay off later-it might; it does!-but because it’s obnoxious now.

  

  Adam Gopnik

• Epops: Come let me see, what shall the name be for our city? ... Euelpides: Hence, from the clouds, and these meteoric regions, some all-swelling name. Pisthetaerus: Would you 'Cloud-cuckoo-land?' (tr. Warter 1830, p. 215)

  

  Aristophanes
  • City
  • Clouds

• Of course, art turns many people away for there has to be a limit. The limits between the gifted and the ungifted.

  

  Elfriede Jelinek
  • People
  • Art

• I like to tell students, 'I didn't burst on to the literary scene.' I'm never good at things at the beginning. I was terrible at the start. I need to work and work.

  

  Markus Zusak
  • Good
  • Work
  • Beginning

• There is nothing wrong being a house husband, and I do believe there is something right about it.

  

  Arjun Kapoor
  • Believe
  • House
  • Husband

• A huge part of youth is how you behave: I'm always looking for fun and anything that makes me feel alive - that in itself keeps me feeling young.

  

  Martine McCutcheon
  • Fun
  • Feeling

• Every girls' night needs a funny movie and a good conversation about guys! My friends and I also love picking outfits out for each other to try on at slumber parties. It's so fun.

  

  Jennette McCurdy
  • Good
  • Friends
  • Movie

• There was a frosty rime upon the trees, which, in the faint light of the clouded moon, hung upon the smaller branches like dead garlands.

  

  Charles Dickens
  • Light
  • Trees
  • Garlands

• One door shuts, and another one opens, and you just kind of follow that path. My path has been a little curvy, but it is what it is. It's all good.

  

  John Corabi Mötley Crüe
  • Door
  • Opens
  • Curvy

• It is the function of the President, representing the executive principle, to execute the laws.

  

  Garet Garrett
  • President
  • Laws
  • Principle

• I think the wrong things are kept private

  

  Nan Goldin
  • Thinking
  • Wrong Things

• To Those Who Appreciate Wistaria and Sunshine. Small mediaeval Italian Castle on the shores of the Mediterranean to be Let furnished for the month of April. Necessary servants remain. Z, Box 1000, The Times.

  

  Elizabeth von Arnim
  • Appreciate
  • Sunshine
  • Servants