Elizabeth von Arnim Quotes
But while admiring my neighbour, I don't think I shall ever try to follow in her steps, my talents not being of the energetic and organising variety, but rather of that order which makes their owner almost lamentably prone to take up a volume of poetry and wander out to where the kingcups grow, and, sitting on a willow trunk beside a little stream, forget the very existence of everything but green pastures and still waters, and the glad blowing of the wind across the joyous fields.Elizabeth von Arnim
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After leaving school, I travelled around Europe for about six months. In Denmark, I thought that was my chance to get an amazing haircut, so I went to what I thought was a great hairdresser. It turned out to be the car wash of hairdressers, and I walked out sporting yet another pudding bowl, but this time with a stripe bleached down the centre.
Becki Newton -
Do not say, 'It is morning,' and dismiss it with a name of yesterday. See it for the first time as a newborn child that has no name.
Rabindranath Tagore -
People who live in glass houses... have to answer the door.
Karl Pilkington -
I don't want to lose what I've won.
Rafael dos Anjos -
It is because of me that today the union government has sanctioned special funds for the development of Bihar.
Lalu Prasad Yadav -
There were mornings in the make-up trailer where I'd have fits of laughter because of the extraordinary daily events of the shoot. Sometimes, it was all too much to believe. But the wildest things happened.
Madeleine Stowe
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When I first started cooking, I was very much an intuitive cook when it came to taste, but that didn't mean I didn't want to know why some things worked and why others did not. My interest took me to culinary school.
Carla Hall -
I love to eat. If I could eat everything in the world and still be healthy or wouldn't catch a heart attack or stroke, I'd eat everything. I just can't. So I got to watch my health and take care of my family.
Fat Joe -
When Corporate America finds a Jayson Blair in its midst, the standard operating procedure is to circle the wagons and deny that any form of liability extends up the chain of command.
Gary Weiss -
I'm filming the next two installments of the 'Fifty Shades' movies back-to-back.
Dakota Johnson -
'Pastoralia' by George Saunders is one of my favorite novels.
Zooey Deschanel -
Men are such power-seeking creatures, and they usually kill people to get to the throne.
Madonna Breakfast Club
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I've had Republicans come to me and say, 'Tell me how I should talk to young people!' as if it's some foreign language or something.
Aaron Schock -
I'm personally more struck by visual things more than musical.
Lana Del Rey -
I keep all my clothes on in House on Haunted Hill, Mary Jane's Last Dance, and The Way of the Gun.
Taye Diggs -
You can never tell when princes will get squinty on you. You can never tell when they might suddenly feel their blood and go all royal.
Tad Williams -
It might be that to surrender to happiness was to accept defeat, but it was a defeat better than many victories.
W. Somerset Maugham -
You can look only when the mind is completely quiet.
Jiddu Krishnamurti
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Waitin' on the pizzle, the dizzle and the shizzle G's to the bizzack, now ladies here we gizzo.
Snoop Dogg -
There is no field of activity for great men without the coming of great wars, great struggles and great revolutions.
Arthur Desmond -
I've played in bands myself, and sat on the floor photographing some of the greatest bands in the world while they rehearse. What's always struck me is how different the sensory, especially auditory, experience is when you're in the middle of the music with the musicians playing off each other around you.
Chris Milk -
You want to know a sure way to lose money? Buy what's popular and don't know what you are investing in.
Walt Whitman -
Most joyful let the Poet be, it is through him that all men see.
William Ellery Channing -
But while admiring my neighbour, I don't think I shall ever try to follow in her steps, my talents not being of the energetic and organising variety, but rather of that order which makes their owner almost lamentably prone to take up a volume of poetry and wander out to where the kingcups grow, and, sitting on a willow trunk beside a little stream, forget the very existence of everything but green pastures and still waters, and the glad blowing of the wind across the joyous fields.
Elizabeth von Arnim