Elsie de Wolfe Quotes

I can't paint. I can't write. I can't sing. But I can decorate and run a house, and light it, and heat it, and have it like a living thing.

Elsie de Wolfe

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• Running back was always my favorite position.

  

  Barry Sanders
  • Running
  • Always
  • Back

• Working gets in the way of living.

  

  Omar Sharif
  • Way
  • Working
  • Living

• I want to pick good projects, I want to work with great directors and try not to put too much pressure on myself and just read things for the story and recognize when I'm drawn to something for the right reasons and try to maintain some sanity. Sanity would be good. I'd like to have a little sanity!

  

  Rachel McAdams
  • Good
  • Work
  • Great

• When the kid goes to bed, you get a little bit of time for yourself and maybe your partner, so being delayed in that departure can be particularly frustrating.

  

  Adam Mansbach
  • Time
  • Yourself
  • Partner

• I'm incredibly impressed by people who organize to achieve a goal, and believe that they can make a difference and then go ahead and do just that. I think it's incredible.

  

  Fiona Apple
  • People
  • Believe
  • Goal

• I fear God and next to God I mostly fear them that fear him not.

  

  Saadi
  • God
  • Fear
  • Him

• There are not many female role models to guide voters, and the tradition that a Southern woman's place is in the home still lingers in some quarters.

  

  Madeleine M. Kunin
  • Home
  • Woman
  • Tradition

• I love having the support of my caucus. We have a good working relationship.

  

  Nancy Pelosi
  • Good
  • Love
  • Support

• Of all the nonsense written about love, none is more absurd than the notion that ideal love is selfless. To love is to see myself in you and to wish to celebrate myself with you. What I love is the embodiment of my values in another person. Love is an act of self-assertion, self-expression and a celebration of being alive.

  

  Nathaniel Branden
  • Love
  • Values
  • For Her

• Death,I need my little addiction to you.need that tiny voice who,even as I rise from the sea,all woman, all there,says kill me, kill me.

  

  Anne Sexton
  • Death
  • Sea
  • Addiction

• I love multi-cam. I grew up in a border town in South Texas right next to Mexico, a million miles away from this world... and to me, multi-cams are just like theater.

  

  Cristela Alonzo
  • Up
  • World
  • Texas

• I may not have been the best Yankee to put on the pinstripes, but I am the proudest.

  

  Billy Martin Good Charlotte
  • May

• If you have only one smile in you give it to the people you love.

  

  Maya Angelou
  • People
  • Smile

• I am grateful to be a woman. I must have done something great in another life.

  

  Maya Angelou
  • Life
  • Great
  • Done

• For certainly there cannot be a higher pleasure than to think that we love and are beloved by the most amiable and best Being.

  

  Mary Astell

• I taught my executive team how to argue.

  

  Alan Mulally
  • Team

• This is going to sound terrible, but once I moved to New York, I never did a civilian job. I was extraordinarily lucky.

  

  Jean Smart
  • Job

• I knew that if I could put a table in a room with not much light and a couple of chairs, I could have a real conversation. And I know that people... like to eavesdrop on a conversation.

  

  Charlie Rose
  • People
  • Real
  • Light

• I enjoy living in a nice house and having a nice life. So I do two or three commercials overseas a year to sort of fill in, because they pay pretty well.

  

  George Clooney
  • House
  • Nice
  • Enjoy

• Cultural anthropology is not valuable because it uncovers the archaic in the psychological sense. It is valuable because it is constantly rediscovering the normal.

  

  Edward Sapir

• You don't know who wants you for you, who wants you for the money, who wants you for the fame. You have no idea. And how would you know? There's no way.

  

  J. J. Watt
  • Money
  • Know
  • Fame

• I was studying International Relations at Columbia when 9/11 happened, and it made me want understand the security dynamics of the world. I had been more focused on soft power issues - understanding different cultures and such - but once 9/11 happened, I felt like I didn't know anything about security problems.

  

  Ellen Gustafson
  • World
  • Different
  • Power

• Your talk," I said, "is surely the handiwork of wisdom because not one word of it do I understand.

  

  Flann O'Brien
  • Wisdom
  • Understand
  • Talk

• I can't paint. I can't write. I can't sing. But I can decorate and run a house, and light it, and heat it, and have it like a living thing.

  

  Elsie de Wolfe
  • Light
  • Write
  • Paint