Elsie de Wolfe Quotes

Simplicity, suitability and proportion.

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• I have always been interested in politics. I was in the student union before, very active.

  

  Abdullah Ahmad Badawi
  • Always
  • Politics
  • Student

• I'm still angry with Simpson for getting by with two murders.

  

  Vincent Bugliosi
  • Angry
  • Two
  • Getting

• A lot of comedians are selfish.

  

  J. B. Smoove
  • Selfish
  • Lot
  • Comedians

• Love can defeat that nameless terror. Loving one another, we take the sting from death. Loving our mysterious blue planet, we resolve riddles and dissolve all enigmas in contingent bliss.

  

  Edward Abbey
  • Death
  • Blue
  • Mysterious

• The fact that I have always been deeply invested in politics, and African politics in particular, inevitably played a role in my first novel and, of course, in my decision to write about a handful of particular conflicts in Africa as a journalist.

  

  Dinaw Mengestu
  • Decision

• Time is the wisest counselor of all.

  

  Pericles
  • Time

• Cycling is an endurance sport. You lose your fast-twitch ability as you age, but your endurance peaks when you hit 30. I don't think I really started feeling my age until around 40.

  

  Jens Voigt
  • Age
  • Feeling
  • Endurance

• I've spent a lot of time trying to understand how all the big cosmetics companies get away with the placebo science and unscientific claims.

  

  Chris Toumazou
  • Time
  • Trying
  • Science

• It is my opinion that everything must be based on a simple idea. And it is my opinion that this idea, once we have finally discovered it, will be so compelling, so beautiful, that we will say to one another, yes, how could it have been any different.

  

  John Archibald Wheeler
  • Different
  • Beautiful
  • Simple

• I've always had a propensity for getting the cursive down pretty well. What it evolved into was my pseudo-waitressing job when I was auditioning. I didn't wait tables. I did calligraphy for the invitations for, like, Robin Thicke and Paula Patton's wedding.

  

  Meghan Markle
  • Job
  • Pretty
  • Wedding

• I don't want to be jumping from team to team.

  

  Asdrubal Cabrera
  • Team

• Our civilization, bequeathed to us by fierce adventurers, eaters of meat and hunters, is so full of hurry and combat, so busy about many things which perhaps are of no importance, that it cannot but see something feeble in a civilization which smiles as it refuses to make the battlefield the test of excellence.

  

  James Joyce
  • Excellence
  • Fierce

• The invention of ethical and political doctrines, which blossomed into our own social sciences, is a product of times when things appeared manageable. The same goes for the criticism of those doctrines, though as a voice from the past, this criticism proved prophetic.

  

  Joseph Brodsky
  • Political
  • Past
  • Criticism

• The cheese board is my big treat at Christmas that I have to deny myself during the rest of year.

  

  Johnny Vegas
  • Rest
  • Christmas

• The exquisite code of politeness of the Woosters prevented me clipping her one on the ear-hole, but I would have given a shilling to be able to do it. There seemed to me something deliberately fat-headed in the way she persisted in missing the gist.

  

  P. G. Wodehouse
  • She
  • Missing
  • Ears

• He is not dead who departs from life with a high and noble fame; but he is dead, even while living, whose brow is branded with infamy.

  

  Ludwig Tieck
  • Life
  • High
  • Dead

• If you want to understand geology, study earthquakes. If you want to understand the economy, study the Depression.

  

  Ben Bernanke
  • Study
  • Depression
  • Geology

• We must never let the noise of the world overpower and overwhelm that still small voice.

  

  L. Tom Perry
  • World
  • Small

• If you do not create your destiny, you will have your fate inflicted upon you.

  

  William Irwin Thompson
  • Moving
  • Destiny
  • Fate

• Science has an important part to play in our everyday existence, and there is far too much neglect of science; but its intention is to supplement not to supplant the familiar outlook.

  

  Arthur Eddington
  • Important
  • Science
  • Everyday

• My closet is pretty organized, I'm proud to say. It's set up by type of clothes and then by color. And then, of course, there's the rotating from spring/summer to fall/winter.

  

  Behati Prinsloo
  • Up
  • Pretty
  • Fall

• What is really desired, under the name of riches, is essentially, power over men ... this power ... is in direct proportion to the poverty of the men over whom it is exercised, and in inverse proportion to the number of persons who are as rich as ourselves.

  

  John Ruskin
  • Poverty
  • Direct
  • Proportion

• Simplicity, suitability and proportion.

  

  Elsie de Wolfe
  • Simplicity
  • Proportion
  • Suitable