Elizabeth Wein Quotes

It is incredible what you do, knowing you have to.

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• Billy Jean King could not get credit when her husband was in law school and she was winning the Wimbledon, because he had to sign the cards. You know, you had these cases in the '70s of women who were mayors who couldn't get credit unless their husbands signed for them.

  

  Gail Collins
  • Women
  • School
  • Law

• The horror genre is my personal favorite. But then again, I was the kid who read coroner books for fun.

  

  Candace Kita
  • Fun
  • Kid
  • Favorite

• Hold puppies, kittens, and babies anytime you get the chance.

  

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
  • You
  • Chance
  • Hold

• We must honestly face our relationship with Great Britain.

  

  Wendell Willkie
  • Great
  • Relationship
  • Face

• 'Life as a Dog' is when I really started to feel comfortable, like I had the due north on my compass.

  

  K. Flay
  • Life
  • Dog
  • Compass

• I think the writing skills of actors are sometimes underestimated.

  

  Felicity Jones
  • Writing
  • Think
  • Skills

• The best history is but like the art of Rembrandt; it casts a vivid light on certain selected causes, on those which were best and greatest; it leaves all the rest in shadow and unseen.

  

  Walter Bagehot
  • Art
  • History
  • Light

• A slice of hot, buttered toast is the perfect meal. It's not too much and not too little, and it gives you just the right buzz.

  

  Naveen Andrews
  • You
  • Perfect
  • Too Much

• If I could go the ballpark and play the game for three hours and then go home? It would be awesome. But that's not the case.

  

  Vernon Wells
  • Home
  • Game
  • Play

• With 'Dazed and Confused,' I got the high school experience I didn't get to have.

  

  Parker Posey
  • School
  • Experience
  • High

• I don't have answers for anybody else. What I know is that internal complexity makes for superficiality. There's never essentially a pure story unless there's a pure product line that has its own shining clarity.

  

  Barry Diller
  • Know
  • Answers
  • Clarity

• There's always a reason not to do anything... to flee the need to make decisions.

  

  Yair Lapid
  • Always
  • Reason
  • Decisions

• It put our energies to sleep and made visionaries of us - dreamers and indolent... It is good to begin life poor; it is good to begin life rich - these are wholesome; but to begin it prospectively rich! The man who has not experienced it cannot imagine the curse of it.

  

  Mark Twain
  • Life
  • Good
  • Sleep

• When you said you were a terrible singer, I thought you were being humble. But you weren't.

  

  Paul McCartney The Beatles
  • Music
  • Said
  • Humble

• When my parents were getting divorced, I just said to myself, 'Go to sleep, and tomorrow you can go skiing.' I cried myself to sleep, and in the morning I was up on the mountain, and I was good.

  

  Lindsey Vonn
  • Up
  • Good
  • Parents

• To get into the best society nowadays, one has either to feed people, amuse people, or shock people.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • People
  • Society
  • Shock

• You don't need fancy sneakers to run fast

  

  Jon Bon Jovi
  • Running
  • Needs
  • Fancy

• As president of the largest Jewish organization, I disposed of budgets of hundreds of millions of dollars; I directed thousands of employees, and all this, I emphasize again, not for one particular state, but within the frame work of International Jewry.

  

  Nahum Goldmann
  • Work
  • President
  • Organization

• There is separation of colored people from white people in the United States. That separation is not a disease of colored people. It is a disease of white people. I do not intend to be quiet about it.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • People
  • United States
  • White

• We're better than Metallica. We're better musicians, better players. Put it this way, they can try to walk onstage after an Iron Maiden show if they want.

  

  Bruce Dickinson Iron Maiden
  • Better
  • Iron Maiden

• Salt water when it turns into vapour becomes sweet, and the vapour does not form salt water when it condenses again. This I know by experiment. The same thing is true in every case of the kind: wine and all fluids that evaporate and condense back into a liquid state become water. They all are water modified by a certain admixture, the nature of which determines their flavour.

  

  Aristotle
  • True
  • Nature
  • Water

• The world was so beautiful when regarded like this, without searching, so simply, in such a childlike way. Moons and stas were beautiful, beautiful were bank and stream, forest and rocks, goat and gold-bug, flower and butterfly. So lovely, so delightful to go through the world this way, so like a child, awake, open to what is near, without distrust.

  

  Hermann Hesse
  • Way
  • Searching
  • Distrust

• It is incredible what you do, knowing you have to.

  

  Elizabeth Wein
  • Knowing
  • Incredible