Elsie de Wolfe Quotes

It does not matter whether one paints a picture, writes a poem, or carves a statue - simplicity is the mark of a master-hand.

Elsie de Wolfe

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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 the kinda person, you gotta fight for everything you get. You gotta believe in yourself.

  

  Ace Frehley Kiss
  • Believe
  • Fight
  • Believe In Yourself

• I'm not going to run away from my responsibilities.

  

  Carlos Mesa
  • Run
  • Going
  • Away

• She would worry, just as you worry. It’s the people who don’t worry-those who never have any doubts that what they’re doing is good and right-they’re the ones that cause the problems.

  

  Alastair Reynolds
  • People
  • Good
  • She

• For decades, Wall Street has charged companies a standard fee of 7 percent to sell their shares to the public.

  

  Alex Berenson
  • Wall

• Time is the wisest counselor of all.

  

  Pericles
  • Time

• 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

• All of philanthropy is harnessing that urge to have your name on something, and using it for good.

  

  David Fahrenthold
  • Good

• You gotta understand - the state of Mississippi was in rebellion. It had rebelled against the United States. Now that has been a very difficult story for America to tell, but that's what actually happened.

  

  James Meredith
  • America

• The rhythm of my career has always been very static, staccato and then silent, and then a lot of work, and then none.

  

  Holly Hunter
  • Work
  • Career

• Movies are movies, television is television.

  

  Dirk Benedict

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

  

  Asdrubal Cabrera
  • Team

• 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

• I think that if I'd not made the movie, I might be a veterinarian in Connecticut. I would probably be married with some children. That's probably the way it would be. But because of the film [the Exorcist], I don't have a normal life by somebody else's standards.

  

  Linda Blair
  • Life
  • Children
  • Movie

• I think God has me on a path. I think he puts certain people in my life, and angels send messages to me, like, Kanye, I want you to say this, and I want you to say that, and I want you to talk to this girl here, and I don't want you to do this over here.

  

  Kanye West
  • People
  • Life
  • God

• Integrity is the foundation upon which all other values are built.

  

  Brian Tracy
  • Success
  • inspirational
  • Values

• I kinda got touched a little bit. It wasn't serious. Play like that at the end of the game, you can't put that on the refs. We got a bad bounce.

  

  Andrew Brown
  • Bad
  • Game
  • Play

• There's a certain fear of simplicity. I think that's the thing, when you're younger as an artist, you get this idea in your head that complexity equals quality. The more notes you're playing, the better.

  

  Patrick Stump Fall Out Boy
  • Fear
  • Quality
  • Better

• When Van Halen started out, there was no path to fame. We just played what we liked. Even today it always comes down to the simplicity of rock and roll.

  

  Eddie Van Halen Van Halen
  • Today
  • Rock
  • Path

• Susie Waggoner in 'Miami Blues' is just such a sweetheart, such an innocent. When I watch that, I really feel like I'm watching Susie Waggoner. I don't really see myself. And there's a simplicity to it that I really like.

  

  Jennifer Jason Leigh
  • Innocent
  • Simplicity

• The figure a poem makes. It begins in delight and ends in wisdom... in a clarification of life - not necessarily a great clarification, such as sects and cults are founded on, but in a momentary stay against confusion.

  

  Robert Frost
  • Life
  • Great
  • Wisdom

• It does not matter whether one paints a picture, writes a poem, or carves a statue - simplicity is the mark of a master-hand.

  

  Elsie de Wolfe
  • Simplicity
  • Poem
  • Paints