Georgette Heyer Quotes
Eccentricity may be diverting, Mama, but it is out of place in a wife: certainly in my wife!Georgette Heyer
Quotes to Explore
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It is up to African leaders to show their will and political courage in order to assure that this new pan-African institution becomes an efficient instrument and not a place for endless discussions.
Omar Bongo -
Affirmative action works but we're going to need to muster all our political resources if we are to keep it in place.
Harold Washington -
I miss Colombia. It's a great place.
Camilo Villegas -
Honest criticism, I suppose, has its place. But honest writing is infinitely more valuable.
Rachel Cusk -
Museums are for dead artists. I'd never show my work in the Tate. You'd never get me in that place.
Damien Hirst -
A desert is a place without expectation.
Nadine Gordimer
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Mixing in some rusty oranges is a warm way to update your place for fall.
Nate Berkus -
I like doing a bunch of different things, being all over the place.
Wanda Sykes -
Some of my oldest friends are actors. But that's not the only place my friends come from.
Beau Bridges -
Hollywood's like a warehouse. It's just a place that you go. What's interesting in the warehouse has to do with the creative people.
Val Kilmer -
I feel like my place in this industry is still progressing.
Ed Harris -
Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place.
Zora Neale Hurston
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I love Memphis, I guess you could say, in the way that you love a brother even if he does sometimes puzzle and sadden and frustrate you. Say what you want about it, it's an authentic place. I was born and raised in Memphis, and no matter where I go, Memphis belongs to me, and I to it.
Hampton Sides -
A place is an area within an environment that has been altered in such a way to make the general environment more conspicuous.
Carl Andre -
We cannot allow religious hooligans to place limiting points on thought.
Salman Rushdie -
The temple is a place of worship. Reverence is a supernal form of worship. It is the form of worship found in the celestial kingdom.
L. Lionel Kendrick -
I left New York in 2009 when I fell in love with someone who had a farmhouse in New Hampshire... Portland, Maine, felt like the inevitable place for us.
Kate Christensen -
It's quite confusing being one of the less wealthy people at a posh place.
Sally Phillips
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Exhibitions usually are not collected; they disperse after they take place.
Hans-Ulrich Obrist -
As a songwriter I hate this whole, 'If it's a sad song, it has to sound like a sad song thing.' And that goes all the way back to my days with the Format. I'm an insane narcissist, so if I have to get something off my chest, I'll get something off my chest.
Nate Ruess Fun. -
Literature is my calling To hold up the mirror to my countrymen comes natural to me; and in the open field of invention I am not without hopes of giving them pleasure.
Thomas Edward Brown -
A painter, who finds no satisfaction in mere representation, however artistic, in his longing to express his inner life, cannot but envy the ease with which music, the most non-material of the arts today, achieves this end. He naturally seeks to apply the methods of music to his own art.
Wassily Kandinsky -
I can't keep my head above water one minute to the next: it's not just the parties and the goo-gooing with what's-her-name, I've got the decide how long the Five Hundredth Anniversary Parade is going to be and where does it start and when does it start and which nobleman gets to march in front of which other nobleman so that everyone's still speaking to me at the end of it, plus I've got a wife to murder and a country to frame for it, plus I've got to get the war going once that's all happened, and all this is stuff I've got to do myself. Here's what it all comes down to: I'm just swamped, Ty.
William Goldman -
Eccentricity may be diverting, Mama, but it is out of place in a wife: certainly in my wife!
Georgette Heyer