Eva Hoffman Quotes

If primness is a small recoil of distaste at things that give others simple and hearty pleasure, then prim is what I'm really becoming.

Eva Hoffman

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• One doesn't have a sense of humor. It has you.

  

  Larry Gelbart
  • You
  • Humor
  • Sense Of Humor

• A race is what zoologists term a variety or subdivision of a species.

  

  J. Philippe Rushton
  • Race
  • Species
  • Variety

• You know, I don't really understand a suburban environment. I want to be out in the woods, I want to be where it's wild, I want to wake up and hear birds, I want to walk outside and see a gaggle of turkeys bouncing across my lawn - I want to be someplace like that - or I want to be right in the middle of an urban environment.

  

  Karen Allen
  • Up
  • Environment
  • Wake Up

• This is not a political issue. I know Florida's leadership has talked about a real commitment to helping our veterans. Now it's time for them to show it.

  

  Ted Deutch
  • Time
  • Real
  • Political

• I like to get a salad or fruit in me - just some good energy food - and then a plate a pasta with a breast of chicken.

  

  Zach LaVine
  • Good
  • Energy
  • Food

• What does that represent? There was never any question in plastic art, in poetry, in music, of representing anything. It is a matter of making something beautiful, moving, or dramatic - this is by no means the same thing.

  

  Fernand Leger
  • Music
  • Art
  • Beautiful

• If you have a group of people come together around a vision for real discipleship, people who are committed to grow, committed to change, committed to learn, then a spiritual assessment tool can work.

  

  Dallas Willard
  • People
  • Work
  • Real

• I used to go with my parents and loved it, I was in school plays, and I started reading plays before I started reading novels. I'll defend it to the hilt. When theatre is good it is fabulous.

  

  Patrick Marber
  • Good
  • School
  • Parents

• I may have said the same thing before...but my explanation, I am sure, will always be different.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Said
  • Thing
  • Explanation

• As iron is eaten away by rust, so the envious are consumed by their own passion.

  

  Antisthenes
  • Passion
  • Envious
  • Rust

• No crime is vulgar, but all vulgarity is crime.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Crime
  • Vulgar

• If it's a broken part, replace it. If it's a broken arm then brace it. If it's a broken heart, then face it.

  

  Jason Mraz
  • Heart
  • Broken
  • Arms

• Genius is the art of taking pains.

  

  Claude C. Hopkins
  • Art
  • Genius
  • Pains

• I really don't think this show is going to work, ... ...I'd like to see them put a lion or a tiger on the island, but I really don't think that would happen.

  

  Bob Denver
  • Work
  • Lion
  • Tiger

• I can no more understand the totality of God than the pancake I made for breakfast understands the complexity of me

  

  Donald Miller
  • God
  • Understand
  • Breakfast

• By my third try, Lady Aithra had lost her patience and brought me to stand before her son while he was in conference with a group of hard-faced Athenian nobles. I smiled unashamedly when she called me willful, wild, and ungrateful, which provoked her so much that she actually dared to declare, “My son, you must not marry this girl. I don’t care how beautiful she is, she’ll bring us nothing but grief and leave Athens in flames!

  

  Esther M. Friesner
  • Son
  • Patience
  • Conference

• I like to encourage people interested in gardening or planting to begin with a simple herb garden. Even if you live in a small apartment, you can have some herb pots.

  

  Anna Getty
  • People
  • Live
  • Small

• Leisure of itself gives pleasure and happiness and enjoyment of life, which are experienced, not by the busy man, but by those who have leisure.

  

  Aristotle
  • Life
  • Happiness
  • Pleasure

• I would love to be a professional athlete. When I was living in Mexico as a teenager, I did seven years of gymnastics and went to the Junior Olympics. I was getting to the level of going to the international competitions, but I was only 14, and my parents were really worried because they did not want that to be my life.

  

  Karla Souza
  • Life
  • Parents
  • Worried

• If primness is a small recoil of distaste at things that give others simple and hearty pleasure, then prim is what I'm really becoming.

  

  Eva Hoffman
  • Pleasure
  • Distaste
  • Prim