Elsie de Wolfe Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
I have always been interested in politics. I was in the student union before, very active.
-
I'm still angry with Simpson for getting by with two murders.
-
A lot of comedians are selfish.
-
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.
-
Time is the wisest counselor of all.
-
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.
-
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.
-
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.
-
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.
-
I don't want to be jumping from team to 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.
-
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.
-
The cheese board is my big treat at Christmas that I have to deny myself during the rest of year.
-
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.
-
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.
-
If you want to understand geology, study earthquakes. If you want to understand the economy, study the Depression.
-
We must never let the noise of the world overpower and overwhelm that still small voice.
-
If you do not create your destiny, you will have your fate inflicted upon you.
-
When the game was in hand I tried to take him out. But my assistant Frank Hamblen said, 'I don't think you can do that. He's got 77 points'.
-
I love simplicity.
-
Must simplicity and humanity go under in the interest of progress? What is the most important component of civilization - is it human or mechanical? Must thought processes become involved and insincere? Must the class-struggle warp those who are involved in it?
-
Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication. It takes a lot of hard work to make something simple, to truly understand the underlying challenges and come up with elegant solutions... It's not just minimalism or the absence of clutter. It involves digging through the depth of complexity. To be truly simple, you have to go really deep. [...] You have to deeply understand the essence of a product in order to be able to get rid of the parts that are not essential.
-
Simplicity, suitability and proportion.
