Eva Hoffman Quotes

Laughter is the lightning rod of play, the eroticism of conversation; for now, I've lost the ability to make the sparks fly.

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• I don't care about how much other actors get.

  

  Daniel Craig
  • Care
  • Other
  • How

• Accomplishment is such a patronizing, dangerous word, isn't it? I haven't really accomplished anything. The most accomplished thing I've done is to have lived this long - 81.

  

  Patrick Macnee
  • Long
  • Done
  • Accomplishment

• When you're a woman with a certain amount of fame and money, you are never certain what someone's motives are.

  

  Patricia Richardson
  • Money
  • Woman
  • Fame

• I would not attack the faith of a heathen without being sure I had a better one to put in its place.

  

  Harriet Beecher Stowe
  • Faith
  • Better
  • Place

• Jerusalem artichokes have a great affinity with nuts. I love them with chopped walnuts or almonds, lemon juice, garlic, herbs and plenty of olive oil.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Great
  • Love
  • Oil

• Three years is a lifetime in Hollywood. If your career starts slipping in L.A., you can really feel it. All of a sudden, the people that you were beating for a part start beating you.

  

  Zach Galligan
  • People
  • Career
  • Start

• We are a breathtakingly alienated people... One of my props is the world's largest underpants. I've had the president of Costa Rica in my underpants with me.

  

  Patch Adams
  • People
  • World
  • Me

• In the years to come, the combination of climate change and population growth could have a devastating effect on the planet and, needless to say, on humanity.

  

  Nathaniel Philbrick
  • Change
  • Humanity
  • Growth

• However novel it may appear, I shall venture the assertion, that, until women assume the place in society which good sense and good feeling alike assign to them, human improvement must advance but feebly.

  

  Frances Wright
  • Good
  • Women
  • May

• Like anybody who grew up in the Eighties, I cringe at the thought of these movies being remade, because of the corniness and cheesiness of the originals.

  

  Omari Hardwick
  • Up
  • Like
  • Thought

• Between the mysteries of death and lifeThou standest, loving, guiding,- not explaining;We ask, and Thou art silent,- yet we gaze,And our charmed hearts forget their drear complaining;No crushing fate, no stony destiny!Thou Lamb that hast been slain, we rest in Thee.

  

  Harriet Beecher Stowe
  • Art
  • Death
  • Rest

• That should probably be written:  no !@#$%^&*:@!semicolon

  

  Larry Wall

• After all, no one is ever taken in by the happy ending, but we are often divinely fuddled by the tragic curtain.

  

  Lionel Trilling
  • Happy
  • Taken

• Youth is something very new: Twenty years ago no one mentioned it.

  

  Coco Chanel

• Looking back... I think the North Koreans think they can say whatever they want because no matter what they do, the Americans will never attack them.

  

  Kim Young-sam

• I don't know if I've ever read a movie that's as strange and unpredictable and hilarious and wonderful as the stuff we're doing on 'The Last Man on Earth.' It's jaw-dropping every week when I get a script, because it goes to such strange places.

  

  Mary Steenburgen
  • Movie
  • Earth
  • Hilarious

• The people of Alabama are fed up. They are tired of politicians who lie to them, and they are sick of elected officials who've been in Washington so long they've forgotten why they ran in the first place.

  

  Luther Strange
  • People
  • Up
  • Long

• I struggle because I love food and sometimes I can't stop eating.

  

  Lucy Davis
  • Food
  • Stop
  • Struggle

• Since 2000, I've been based in Paris at the Musee d'Art Moderne de la Ville, curating the programme there. Internationally, it's a very open situation that goes beyond national boundaries; directors and curators move from one country to another, which has opened up the museum landscape.

  

  Hans-Ulrich Obrist
  • Up
  • Country
  • Art

• It's harder and harder to make a well-done romantic comedy these days because the conventions have been so played out.

  

  Dana Fox
  • Done
  • Comedy
  • Romantic

• It's true, Christmas can feel like a lot of work, particularly for mothers. But when you look back on all the Christmases in your life, you'll find you've created family traditions and lasting memories. Those memories, good and bad, are really what help to keep a family together over the long haul.

  

  Caroline Kennedy
  • Life
  • Good
  • Work

• Faith is a great gift to have.

  

  Bern Will Brown
  • Faith
  • Great Gift

• Laughter is the lightning rod of play, the eroticism of conversation; for now, I've lost the ability to make the sparks fly.

  

  Eva Hoffman
  • Fly
  • Conversation
  • Slaughter