Evadne Price Quotes

War made by age and fought by youth while age looked on and applauded and encored.

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• My parents divorced when I was seven. Because divorce is messy, for good or ill, they sent me to boarding school.

  

  Jack Davenport
  • Good
  • School
  • Parents

• To insult someone we call him 'bestial. For deliberate cruelty and nature, 'human' might be the greater insult.

  

  Isaac Asimov
  • Nature
  • Human
  • Insult

• I never thought of a career of as a model, and it was a total surprise for me when I won the contest and became Miss Chelyabinsk. Then I started modelling in Paris.

  

  Irina Shayk
  • Career
  • Thought
  • Model

• We think of the 1950s as an oppressive time in the culture, and indeed it was, but it was also in many ways a more secular moment, and one in which great scientific achievements flourished. I don't want to get too gauzy about this, but there was much more respect for science as a necessary part of society.

  

  Hanya Yanagihara
  • Time
  • Great
  • Society

• I always say it took me 10 minutes to write 'Cars,' but if I am honest it could have been even less than that - and it has been a really successful song over the years. It is still massively used, in advertising, in films, and people do cover versions of it a lot.

  

  Gary Numan
  • Song
  • Films
  • Advertising

• I don't mind Ryan Bader thinking he deserves a title shot.

  

  Daniel Cormier
  • Thinking
  • Mind
  • Shot

• I'm a big fan of Justin Timberlake and Bruno Mars – that's my next level. You've got to dream. People have always tried to shoot me down for wanting to be a big worldwide star. But why not? You have to broaden your horizons and put yourself out there.

  

  Olly Murs
  • People
  • Star
  • Fan

• Science consistently produces a new crop of miraculous truths and dazzling devices every year.

  

  Kary Mullis
  • Science
  • New
  • Year

• There's been times when I've been standing in a line at a movie and someone's hit me with something really heavy about someone really close and how our music has helped them get through it. Even in our darkest moments we try and find something beautiful.

  

  Eddie Vedder Pearl Jam
  • Music
  • Movie
  • Beautiful

• Soap opera seems to be a dirty word, but actually they are the most popular shows we have. People want to know what happens next, people hate the villains and love the lovers. It's good, fun TV. But I wouldn't call 'Downton' a soap opera as such.

  

  Dan Stevens
  • People
  • Hate
  • Know

• If you get conquered by ego, then you are losing the fight.

  

  Edgar Ramirez
  • Fight
  • Ego
  • Losing

• If I play anything that sounds like a solo, it's gonna sound like a lyric.

  

  Adam Jones
  • Play
  • Sound
  • Anything

• The poverty from which I have suffered could be diagnosed as 'Soho' poverty. It comes from having the airs and graces of a genius and no talent.

  

  Quentin Crisp
  • Poverty
  • Talent
  • Genius

• I guess you can look at me, and tell I'm the old man. My name is BB King.

  

  B. B. King
  • Man
  • Name
  • Old

• I will never censor myself to please anyone.

  

  Natalia Kills
  • Myself
  • Never
  • Will

• Du fond de l'ombre où nous sommes et où vous êtes, vous ne voyez pas beaucoup plus distinctement que nous les radieuses et lointaines portes de l'éden. Seulement les prêtres se trompent. Ces portes saintes ne sont pas derrière nous, mais devant nous.

  

  Victor Hugo

• The enduring assumption that human behaviour is governed by innate morality and reason is at odds with the persistence of human deprivation, inequality, injustice, misery, brutality and conflict.

  

  Nayef Al-Rodhan
  • Assumption
  • Persistence

• The worst programs are the ones where the programmers doing the original work don't lay a solid foundation, and then they're not involved in the program in the future.

  

  Bill Gates
  • Work
  • Future

• But I will say, I think there are some Democrats that don't want to address pension reform. I have taken on the issue of seniority and tenure. I think we have to address entitlements and the president has done that in his budget. I think we have to extend Medicare and the president has done that. But also reinvest in that program.

  

  Antonio Villaraigosa
  • Done
  • Taken

• Gold? Yellow, glittering, precious gold?... This yellow slave Will knit and break religions, bless th' accursed, Make the hoar leprosy adored, place thieves, And give them title, knee and approbation With senators on the bench.

  

  F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • Gold

• Yes, what has happened is we have moved from responding to these terrorist attacks as acts of civil disobedience to getting to the point after September 11 that we said, no, this is not just civil disobedience, this is an act of war.

  

  Marsha Blackburn
  • War
  • September

• When war is not just it is subsequently justified; so it becomes many things. In reality, an unjust war is merely piracy. It consists of piracy, ego and, more than anything, money. War is our century's prostitution.

  

  T. S. Eliot
  • Money
  • War
  • Reality

• War made by age and fought by youth while age looked on and applauded and encored.

  

  Evadne Price
  • War
  • Fought
  • Applaud