Elizabeth Wein Quotes
I need complicated railroad journeys and people speaking to me in foreign languages to keep me happy. I want to see the world and write stories about everything I see.Elizabeth Wein
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All of a sudden I'm an actor, and I spend a decade trying to fit in and realising that I didn't, really. Sometimes in the right circumstances, with the right people, it felt OK. But other times it was a bit more jobbing. I didn't fit the mould, somehow.
Paddy Considine -
I was always more interested in the ultimate live performance rather than the recording for its own sake. And, for the audience too, that thrill of - just being there.
Ian Anderson -
The main dangers in this life are the people who want to change everything... or nothing.
Nancy Astor -
To work hard, to live hard, to die hard, and then go to hell after all would be too damn hard.
Carl Sandburg -
All that you may achieve or discover you will regard as a fragment of a larger pattern of the truth which from the separate approaches every true scholar is striving to descry.
A. Lawrence Lowell -
People know that I am a very good author. But they would rather read what I have to say about the next election.
Tatyana Tolstaya
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My mom watches really obscure stuff on IFC. She's a real comedy fan. She knows everything that's going on.
Kate McKinnon -
It's better to finish at the peak or soon after it, than to wait until the audience notices a decline.
Eberhard Weber -
Personally, I do not know whether humankind is alone in this vast universe. But I do know that we should cherish our existence on this precious speck of matter... the greatest gift that could be bestowed upon us. For all practical purposes, there is only one planet Earth.
Ban Ki-moon -
Television is a thing that people get very familiar with. They want to hear your voice in their head.
Damon Wayans, Jr. -
In the case of Marilyn and John Kennedy, I think they did affect change.
Sally Kirkland -
I could meet dreadful people and end up seeing the world through their eyes, seeing their frailties, their needs.
V. S. Naipaul
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The cup of life is not so shallow That we have drained the best That all the wine at once we swallow And lees make all the rest.
Ralph Waldo Emerson -
A dog cannot relate his autobiography; however eloquently he may bark, he cannot tell you that his parents were honest but poor.
Bertrand Russell -
I am stuffing your mouth with yourpromises and watchingyou vomit them out upon my face.
Anne Sexton -
So many times I wanted to go to Auschwitz, but I couldn't take up the courage to go there.
Frank Lowy -
My sister called her pillow a pilgo. My brother called his pacifier his nimma. But I don't think I was much of a word generator myself.
Andrew Clements -
I've long thought that Marco Rubio would make a strong G.O.P. candidate for president. While he was brought into office by surfing on the Tea Party wave, he has proven himself not to be wedded to the frequent lunacy of those folks.
Kurt Eichenwald
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I feel like an old boxer. The brain's gone, but I can still move around.
Kris Kristofferson -
Having bands in the NFL would take up seats. If you take up seats in the NFL, you're losing money.
LaMarr Woodley -
A library book, I imagine, is a happy book.
Cornelia Funke -
Perhaps if one really knew when one was happy one would know the things that were necessary in one's life.
Marion Milner -
I need complicated railroad journeys and people speaking to me in foreign languages to keep me happy. I want to see the world and write stories about everything I see.
Elizabeth Wein