Elsa Triolet Quotes

There's no place where one can breathe as freely as on the deck of a ship.

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• Without my Johnson trademark mop of yellow hair, I think I would be nothing.

  

  Rachel Johnson
  • Think
  • Hair
  • Yellow

• Music is pretty intimate stuff and I can only work with very few people: Gonzalez being one, Mocky being another and, on a completely different level, Broken Social Scene. With Broken Social Scene it's not one-on-one, it's a one-on-12. It's very healthy, very comfortable, like a big pot luck supper among old friends.

  

  Feist
  • People
  • Work
  • Music

• I enjoyed being in 'The Ten Commandments.' That was a great experience - to suddenly become one of those holy people. I was holier than thou.

  

  Yvonne De Carlo
  • People
  • Great
  • Experience

• If boomers were always looking to shock, millennials are eager to share.

  

  Nancy Gibbs
  • Always
  • Looking
  • Shock

• What's so brave about being bald? I've not fought for my country or found the cure for cancer - I've just gone out without my hat on!

  

  Gail Porter
  • Country
  • Cancer
  • Brave

• I just wrote what I felt like writing since they seemed to sell.

  

  Jack Vance
  • Writing
  • Like
  • Sell

• A man always has two reasons for doing anything: a good reason and the real reason.

  

  J. P. Morgan
  • Good
  • Real
  • Man

• It's more fun if you can control things like lighting and make special effects in the darkroom.

  

  Lacey Chabert
  • Fun
  • You
  • Control

• I have the support of my parents and my teachers. They made it very possible for me to go to a school that is open and supportive of me being gone at times and pursuing acting. But school always comes first for me.

  

  Yara Shahidi
  • School
  • Parents
  • Support

• I'm belligerent rather than ambitious.

  

  Ian Hart
  • Ambitious
  • Rather
  • Than

• Governor Jan Brewer and the Arizona legislature have created an environment in Arizona where performing is no longer a neutral act. They have created an environment where they can convert the normal commercial interaction between artists and their fans into the means to apply this racist law.

  

  Zack de la Rocha Rage Against the Machine
  • Law
  • Environment
  • Fans

• I believe in order to make a friend, you have to be a friend.

  

  Weili Dai
  • Believe
  • Friend
  • I Believe

• Socrates, on being insulted in the marketplace, asked by a passerby, 'Don’t you worry about being called names?' retorted, 'Why? Do you think I should resent it if an ass had kicked me?'

  

  Alain de Botton
  • Why
  • Worry

• In November, they transferred control of Abu Ghraib to the military intelligence command completely; it was, after all, the center for interrogations for Iraq.

  

  Janis Karpinski
  • Control
  • Military
  • November

• To write fiction is to think that you're doing it wrong - that your work habits are inhibiting you; that you've chosen the wrong subject; that you've chosen the right subject, but that someone else has, unbeknownst to you, already written exactly the book you're laboring over.

  

  Ben Dolnick
  • Work
  • Book

• Bergdorf Goodman is positioned at the very top of the luxury pyramid, and I think that as we go through this next phase of renovation, we're going to elevate it even further.

  

  Karen Katz

• Facebook people are finding me that I don't really know. People poke you on Facebook. I'm like, 'Why? Why are you poking me?'

  

  Bridget Kelly
  • People
  • Why

• I don't have a waist: I'm a breadbox on top of legs.

  

  Tyne Daly

• I've always had an eye for nature, but it's the sort of thing to keep quiet about, because I don't want to come across as a mad hippy. But it makes sense to appreciate those things.

  

  Jarvis Cocker Pulp
  • Nature
  • Mad

• I was really lucky that I came to puberty at a time when music and politics were completely intertwined.

  

  Bob Geldof
  • Time
  • Music

• When you reach a certain level, you live in a bubble when all you think, dream and breathe is becoming the best athlete in the world.

  

  Katarina Witt
  • World
  • Live
  • Dream

• Even as technology becomes increasingly critical to the way we live our lives, power our world and defend our shores, the United States has allowed the production of minerals crucial in the creation of these advanced products to slide.

  

  Hank Johnson
  • World
  • Live
  • Power

• Each time I had five hours of the poison going into me, I just pictured everything that needed to be burned away. I pictured wars, I pictured the things my father had done to me, I pictured brutality, and when it was over, I am light.

  

  Eve Ensler
  • Light
  • Poison
  • Wars

• There's no place where one can breathe as freely as on the deck of a ship.

  

  Elsa Triolet
  • Breathe
  • Ship
  • Deck