Elizabeth Wein Quotes

With her words in my mind while I'm reading, she is as real as I am. Gloriously daft, drop-dead charming, full of bookish nonsense and foul language, brave and generous. She's right here. Afraid and exhausted, alone, but fighting.

Elizabeth Wein

• Reading
• Fighting
• Language
• Charming

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• Take a very small amount of money, your throwaway money, treat it as if it's already gone, you've mentally set it on fire, and put it in some distribution of a few truly legit layer 1 blockchains.

  

  Naval Ravikant
  • Money
  • Small
  • Fire

• Well, one of my favorite ones to work on - besides just about any scene from 'Deadwood' - was my scene with Brad Pitt in 'Assassination of Jesse James'. That was just a fun day.

  

  Garret Dillahunt
  • Work
  • Fun
  • Day

• Should the time come when the county family will be taken away, then the parish will feel for some time like a mouth from which a molar has been drawn - there will be a vacancy that will cause unrest and discomfort.

  

  Sabine Baring-Gould
  • Time
  • Family
  • Taken

• I like bangers and really testosterone-fueled stuff.

  

  Flume
  • Like
  • Stuff
  • Really

• Calling it off comes easy enough if you haven't told the girl you are smitten with her.

  

  Carl Sandburg
  • Girl
  • You
  • Easy

• The whole borrowing clothes thing is very unnatural for me. I don't feel comfortable with that. If you like something, I'd just give it to you rather than sharing it.

  

  Zana Marjanovic
  • Me
  • Clothes
  • Sharing

• Being gay myself, I'm naturally drawn to the interactions between men rather than men and women.

  

  Damon Galgut
  • Men
  • Women
  • Myself

• It is fantastic to be found in a foreign country.

  

  Ed O'Brien Radiohead
  • Country
  • Found
  • Fantastic

• So it's joyful to me, in my 71st year, to be able to be in a play that is absolutely right for my age and my experience, and that is a popular success. What more could you ask as an actor?

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • Experience
  • Age
  • Success

• Being honest with you, it's not the 'great' wall of China. It's an all right wall. It's the 'All Right Wall of China.'

  

  Karl Pilkington
  • Great
  • You
  • Wall

• I was young and felt like it was opportunity 'cause they were moving units back then on the underground scene.

  

  Young Buck
  • Opportunity
  • Moving
  • Young

• I have lifestyle requirements. Photos, meetings, lunches, dinners, facial care, tooth care. It requires an exorbitant amount of money.

  

  Gary Coleman
  • Money
  • Care
  • Meetings

• An awful lot of Republicans, both in Washington and outside Washington, are resigned to leaving Obamacare in effect.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • Leaving
  • Outside
  • Washington

• I'm always challenged by someone.

  

  Jackie Joyner-Kersee
  • Always
  • Someone
  • Challenged

• Art comes from a visceral need and is usually generated by something I have seen; writing comes from something that happens in my head and my heart.

  

  E. L. Konigsburg
  • Writing
  • Heart
  • Art

• People always say that my work is sensational or shocking but there are truly shocking things you could do, and my sculptures don't go anywhere near that.

  

  Damien Hirst
  • People
  • Work
  • Always

• Our true nationality is mankind.

  

  H. G. Wells
  • True
  • Mankind
  • Our

• We live in an era of globalization and the era of the woman. Never in the history of the world have women been more in control of their destiny.

  

  Oscar de la Renta
  • World
  • Women
  • Live

• Most of the scientists I know think civilization is teetering on the brink of a global disaster. They just don't know when it's going to hit. I don't have the answer to that either. I'm scared as hell.

  

  Paul R. Ehrlich
  • Hell
  • Answers
  • Scared

• Whether it is fun to go to bed with a good book depends a great deal on who's reading it.

  

  Bill Vaughan
  • Good
  • Great
  • Book

• Ceaseless optimism about the future only makes for a greater shock when things go wrong; by fighting to maintain only positive beliefs about the future, the positive thinker ends up being less prepared, and more acutely distressed, when things eventually happen that he can't persuade himself to believe are good.

  

  Oliver Burkeman
  • Up
  • Good
  • Believe

• Crushes start out as that teenage phenomenon, life-affirming and cute, but as you wander into adulthood, they seem to end up more painful, harrowing, and uncertain, especially if you have just come out of the relationship you thought would finally, maybe, maybe be the one that stuck.

  

  Lauren Mayberry Chvrches
  • Life
  • Up
  • Relationship

• One of the hardest things about my job is that there kind of is no one rulebook that applies to all situations.

  

  Ethan Hawke
  • Job
  • Applies
  • Rulebook

• With her words in my mind while I'm reading, she is as real as I am. Gloriously daft, drop-dead charming, full of bookish nonsense and foul language, brave and generous. She's right here. Afraid and exhausted, alone, but fighting.

  

  Elizabeth Wein
  • Reading
  • Fighting
  • Language