Eva Hoffman Quotes

The more words I have, the more distinct, precise my perceptions become--and such lucidity is a form of joy.

Eva Hoffman

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• When I was little, I got into a little accident, and it gave me congenital glaucoma in both of my eyes.

  

  Fetty Wap
  • Me
  • Eyes
  • Accident

• Lets be clear, Dolly Parton is a rapper. Somewhere before all the country, I don't know what happens up there in the mountains when you're growing up, but she has been spitting rhymes for a very long time - 50 years I'd say.

  

  Queen Latifah
  • Up
  • Time
  • Long

• Imagination grows by exercise, and contrary to common belief, is more powerful in the mature than in the young.

  

  W. Somerset Maugham
  • Powerful
  • Imagination
  • Exercise

• Art is born of humiliation.

  

  W. H. Auden
  • Art
  • Born
  • Humiliation

• I think people think of me as this elegant person because they always see me dressed up.

  

  Vanna White
  • People
  • Think
  • See

• I don't believe there will be anyone who will use violence or who will want to provoke violence that will tarnish the irreproachable image of the Catalan independence movement as pacifist.

  

  Carles Puigdemont
  • Believe
  • Want
  • Violence

• I'm a writer first and a singer second.

  

  Lana Del Rey
  • First
  • Writer
  • Singer

• She's anything but typical;She's so unpredictable.Oh but even at her worst it ain't that bad.She's as real as real can beAnd she's every fantasy.Lord she's every lover that I've ever had.And she's every lover that I've never had.

  

  Garth Brooks
  • Real
  • She
  • Bad

• Yes, our DNA is unique but so is a salamander’s.

  

  Dan Simmons
  • Unique

• Ricky: You are the strangest man alive.

  

  Karl Pilkington

• Progress' constant companion is nostalgia for the way things used to be.

  

  Ira Glass
  • Progress

• 'You’re just getting old.' She gave a dramatic sigh. 'Truly, all the more’s the tragedy; the second thing to go is a man’s memory.'

  

  Patrick Rothfuss
  • She

• It was here at the age of seventeen that I suspended my religious inquiries.

  

  Edward Gibbon
  • Age
  • Religious

• Without the hard little bits of marble which are called 'facts' or 'data' one cannot compose a mosaic; what matters, however, are not so much the individual bits, but the successive patterns into which you arrange them, then break them up and rearrange them.

  

  Arthur Koestler
  • Up

• I really love Celine. Obviously. Alexander Wang. Givenchy. Those are probably my main favorites. Dolce & Gabbana, too.

  

  Emily Ratajkowski

• My first memory of the Rolling Stones is listening to 'Satisfaction' at a sixth-grade slumber party at a friend's house in Ankara, Turkey, where my family was living at the time. In the middle of our sleepover, my friend's dad stopped the record when he heard the words 'girlie action!'

  

  Gayle King
  • Time
  • Family
  • House

• Without going into too much detail, the end of my major action scene, after the climax of the scene, there was one little change that I suggested regarding the way things should turn out. It was in the detail of the tears of blood.

  

  Chiaki Kuriyama
  • Action
  • Tears

• The Senate should consider a rule ensuring that every judicial nominee receives a vote by the Senate within 180 days of being nominated by the president.

  

  Brett Kavanaugh

• A meringue is really nothing but a foam. And what is a foam after all, but a big collection of bubbles? And what's a bubble? It's basically a very flimsy little latticework of proteins draped with water. We add sugar to this structure, which strengthens it. But things can, and do, go wrong.

  

  Alton Brown
  • Water
  • Bubbles

• Good morning, son In twenty years from now Maybe we'll both sit down and have a few beers And I can tell you 'bout today And how I picked you up and everything changed.

  

  Ben Folds
  • Up
  • Good
  • Today

• Because of my voice, speaking words which had been carefully chosen, women had used money they had set aside for other purposes to buy war bonds.

  

  Kate Smith
  • Women
  • Money
  • War

• Time means a lot to me because, you see, I, too, am also a learner and am often lost in the joy of forever developing and simplifying. If you love life, don't waste time, for time is what life is made up of.

  

  Bruce Lee
  • Life
  • Up
  • Time

• Real joy comes not from ease or riches or from the praise of men but from doing something worthwhile.

  

  Wilfred Grenfell
  • Men
  • Joy
  • Praise

• The more words I have, the more distinct, precise my perceptions become--and such lucidity is a form of joy.

  

  Eva Hoffman
  • Words
  • Joy
  • Perceptions