Elspeth Huxley Quotes
... vastly different peoples live and work side by side but rarely come together, like the arms of an egg beater that whirled independently and never touched, so that perhaps one arm never knew the other was there; yet they were together, turned by the same handle, and the cake was mixed by both.
Elspeth Huxley
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I had a suit made for me when I was five. It was double-breasted, mohair and purple. My mother was very particular about clothing - it always used to have to go back into the plastic and it used to drive me insane.
Ozwald Boateng
The Internet is, among other things, a massive, chaotic marketplace. Too much information, it turns out, is a lot like no information.
Adam Davidson
I feel like acting is something I've been working towards longer. And it would be great to win a Grammy, of course, but for some reason, an Oscar speaks more to me.
Vanessa Hudgens
'It is a mistake,' he said, 'to suppose that the public wants the environment protected or their lives saved and that they will be grateful to any idealist who will fight for such ends. What the public wants is their own individual comfort. We know that well enough from our experience in the environmental crisis of the twentieth century.'
Isaac Asimov
The dark does not weep for itself because there is no light. Rather, it accepts that it is the dark. It is said that even the gods must die.' He winks. 'But not without one hell of a fight.'
Libba Bray
A sincere acquiescence in the dispensations of Providence will check discompusure of mind beyond any thing. It will produce a calm in the midst of a storm.
Edward Jenner
Inequality can have a bad downside, but equality, for its part, sure does get in the way of coordination.
Mary Douglas
Rightly or wrongly, as a woman in politics, you're being judged for what you're wearing, and people are paying attention to that more than they do with men.
Betsy Hodges
Theorists have wonderful ideas which take years and years to be verified.
David Gross
At its core, the FCC's plan to regulate the Internet will force businesses and people to check first with the government and get permission to innovate.
Mary Bono
I grew up in an era of thinking of travel as escape. The idea that you could conceivably have a new life, go somewhere, fall in love, have little children under the palm trees.
Paul Theroux
I took the liberal view for many decades, but I believe I have changed my mind.
David Mamet
