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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• It's better for people to miss you than to have seen too much of you.

  

  Edward Norton
  • People

• I wasn't ready for 'Bright Star' to end when it did.

  

  Carmen Cusack
  • Star

• When I was playing I felt tired all the time. My recovery period was a lot longer than the other players. They'd be ok after an hour - I'd have to stay in bed till the next session.

  

  Jonah Lomu
  • Time
  • Period
  • Tired

• The silken rush of woodland waters and the scoured shapes of the desert - these and countless other treasures we owe to those farsighted enough to have preserved the public lands that make up our inheritance.

  

  T. H. Watkins
  • Up
  • Nature
  • Water

• Oh you’re heist-drunk Kitty Kat. And you have been since the Henley.

  

  Ally Carter
  • Drunk

• It's a landscape that has to be seen to be believed. And, as I say on occasion, it may have to be believed in order to be seen.

  

  N. Scott Momaday
  • May

• I appreciate a slight yield, lightness of weight, some motion if possible, because in moving about, the human body determines... the comfort and the measurements of its environment... the human measure is still the strongest factor. But coming back to the chair, there are certain motions we go through - we like to lean back, like to toss things - and if the chair's adaptable it responds and it's almost like wearing a comfortable coat; you really don't know you have it on.

  

  Harry Bertoia
  • Moving
  • Environment
  • Appreciate

• You can't serve on every committee. But you can know what happened, what the debate was, who said what.

  

  Kevin McCarthy

• 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