Elizabeth Wein Quotes

You can't just sit in a corner weeping or you'll die.

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• I watch a lot of television. I always have.

  

  Aaron Tveit
  • Always
  • Television
  • Watch

• When you start directing movies at the age of 24, you're just a kid; you don't necessarily even have the experiences to add to the story. You're working off of instinct and raw emotions and raw talent, and hopefully it's the same trajectory as growing as a person.

  

  F. Gary Gray
  • Age
  • Growing
  • Same

• Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not: nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not: the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.

  

  Calvin Coolidge
  • World
  • Men
  • Education

• I find it easier to strike the ball with my instep across goal. But I've scored in loads of other ways, too.

  

  Francesco Totti
  • Goal
  • Find
  • Strike

• I love making buckwheat crepes with ham, Parmesan cheese, and a fried egg on top. It's my go-to breakfast.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Love
  • Breakfast
  • Egg

• Employment, sir, and hardships prevent melancholy.

  

  Samuel Johnson

• What is required of us is that we love the difficult and learn to deal with it. In the difficult are the friendly forces, the hands that work on us. Right in the difficult we must have our joys, our happiness, our dreams: there against the depth of this background, they stand out, there for the first time we see how beautiful they are.

  

  Rainer Maria Rilke
  • Time
  • Work
  • Beautiful

• Globalization is the economic treason that dare not speak it name.

  

  Pat Buchanan

• He is a prophet and not a poet and therefore his Koran is to be seen as Divine Law, and not as a book of a human being made for education or entertainment.

  

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • Book
  • Education
  • Law

• Yet still to choose a brat like you, To haunt a man of forty-two, Was no great compliment!'

  

  Lewis Carroll
  • Great

• Nada termina sin romperse, porque todo es sin fin.

  

  Antonio Porchia

• Playing in New York, there's a lot of pressure, but me and some Europeans like the pressure.

  

  Kristaps Porzingis

• I had done a couple of auditions for 'Amistad' and didn't feel it was going to go any further - and then the call came about heading to Los Angeles to work with Steven Spielberg. It was surreal: exciting, challenging, overwhelming.

  

  Chiwetel Ejiofor
  • Work
  • Done
  • Couple

• Universities are in a position where they can think very creatively.

  

  Derek Bok

• Everyone has different ways of defending themselves.

  

  Luis Suarez
  • Different

• I really love New York, but I have to say, the humidity during the summer is a nightmare for a cartoonist. Not only am I sweating in my studio, my bristol board is curling up, the drafting tape is peeling off the board, my Rapidograph pens bleed the minute I put them to paper... it's a disaster.

  

  Adrian Tomine
  • Up
  • Summer

• I've always tried to do my very best, and I want to be the very best age, whatever age I am.

  

  Ann-Margret
  • Age

• It's hard to find things that haven't been said before or drawn before, but I'm trying.

  

  Lisa Hanawalt
  • Trying

• It is the acceptance of death that has finally allowed me to choose life.

  

  Elizabeth Lesser
  • Life
  • Death
  • Choose

• It's interesting to try to imagine how early humans discovered what was edible and what wasn't. Who figured out that when you cooked stinging nettles, the sting would go away completely? How many people had to die before the relative toxicity of wild mushrooms became widely known?

  

  Kate Christensen
  • People
  • Interesting
  • Die

• There's the constant concern with what happens to you when you die. Every society thinks about that and makes things to deal with that.

  

  Neil MacGregor
  • Society
  • Die

• You can't just sit in a corner weeping or you'll die.

  

  Elizabeth Wein
  • Die
  • Weeping